1921 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1921?
- January 6, 1921 – Formation of the Iraqi Army.
- January 12, 1921 – Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball’s first commissioner.
- February 8, 1921 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- March 8, 1921 – Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
- March 19, 1921 – Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
- March 21, 1921 – The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of War Communism.
- May 3, 1921 – West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to issues surrounding its enforcement.
- May 19, 1921 – The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
- May 24, 1921 – The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
- June 6, 1921 – The Southwark Bridge in London, is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
- June 30, 1921 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.
- July 11, 1921 – A truce is called in the Irish War of Independence; see Irish calendar.
- August 14, 1921 – Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People’s Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
- August 25, 1921 – The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.
- September 7, 1921 – Legion of Mary is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
- October 26, 1921 – The Chicago Theatre opens.
- November 4, 1921 – The Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria (Fatherland Altar) in Rome.
- November 11, 1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
- December 23, 1921 – Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
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