1921 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1921?
- January 9, 1921 – Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, began near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
- February 8, 1921 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- February 21, 1921 – Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country’s first constitution.
- March 1, 1921 – The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
- March 6, 1921 – Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
- March 12, 1921 – İstiklal Marşı was adopted in TBMM(Turkish grand national assembly).
- May 19, 1921 – The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
- June 20, 1921 – Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
- June 28, 1921 – Serbian King Alexander I proclaimed the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
- July 10, 1921 – Belfast’s Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- July 11, 1921 – A truce is called in the Irish War of Independence; see Irish calendar.
- July 27, 1921 – Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
- August 14, 1921 – Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People’s Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
- October 5, 1921 – Baseball: The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time.
- October 21, 1921 – George Melford’s silent film, The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, premiers.
- 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 6, 1921 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
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