1921 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1921?
- January 6, 1921 – Formation of the Iraqi Army.
- 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.
- March 17, 1921 – The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
- March 19, 1921 – Italian Fascists shoot from the Parenzana train at a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia): two children are killed, two mangled and three wounded.
- 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.
- April 15, 1921 – Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.
- 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.
- July 29, 1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
- August 23, 1921 – British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only 4 survive.
- September 7, 1921 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
- September 21, 1921 – A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500-600 people.
- October 8, 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
- October 29, 1921 – Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in the United States of America.
- November 4, 1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
- November 7, 1921 – The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence.
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