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Baron Nikolai Robert Maximilian Freiherr von Ungern-Sternberg, often referred to as Roman von Ungern-Sternberg or Baron Ungern, was a Russian military leader in the Russian Civil W…
Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (born 1886)
Engelbert Humperdinck was a German composer of opera. He is best known for his opera Hansel and Gretel (1893).
Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer and educator (born 1854)
Subramania Bharati was an Indian writer, poet, composer, journalist, teacher, Indian independence activist, social reformer, and polyglot. He was bestowed the title Bharati for his…
Subramania Bharati, Indian journalist, poet, and activist (born 1882)
Fanya Anisimovna Baron was a Russian Jewish anarchist revolutionary. She spent her early life participating in the Chicago workers' movement, but following the Russian Revolution i…
Fanya Baron, Lithuanian Jewish anarchist (born 1887)
John Storey was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales from 12 April 1920 until his sudden death in Sydney. His leadership enabled the New South Wales Labor Pa…
John Storey, Australian politician, 20th Premier of New South Wales (born 1869)
Ludwig III was the last King of Bavaria, reigning from 1913 to 1918. Initially, he served in the Bavarian military as a lieutenant and went on to hold the rank of Oberleutnant duri…
Ludwig III of Bavaria (born 1845)
John Boyd Dunlop was a Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon who spent most of his career in Ireland. Familiar with making rubber devices, he invented the practical pneumatic ty…
John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, founded Dunlop Rubber (born 1840)
Bartholemew William Barclay "Bat" Masterson was a U.S. Army scout, lawman, professional gambler, and journalist known for his exploits in the late 19th and early 20th-century Ameri…
Bat Masterson, American lawman, buffalo hunter, and sport writer (born 1853)
Buckingham and Carnatic Mills, popularly known as B & C Mills, were textile mills run by Binny and Co. in the city of Madras, India. The mills were closed down in 1996 and the s…
Workers at the Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in Madras, India, began a four-month strike
The 1st National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was held in Shanghai and Jiaxing between July 23 and August 2, 1921. The congress established the Chinese Communist Party (…
The first National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party opened in a house in Shanghai.
Atlantic City, sometimes referred to by its initials A.C., is a seaside resort city in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Margaret Gorman (pictured) was crowned the "Golden Mermaid", the forerunner to the Miss…
The Government of Ireland Act 1920 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act's long title was "An Act to provide for the better government of Ireland"; it is also…
Under the British Government of Ireland Act, Ireland was partitioned into two self-governing territories, Northern and S
On 15 March 1921, Armenian student Soghomon Tehlirian killed Talaat Pasha—former grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire and the main architect of the Armenian genocide—in Berlin. At hi…
At his trial for the assassination of Talaat Pasha, viewed as the main orchestrator of the Armenian genocide, Soghomon T
Vladimir Alexandrovich Antonov-Ovseenko, real surname Ovseenko, party aliases 'Bayonet' (Штык) and 'Nikita' (Никита), literary pseudonym A. Galsky, was a prominent Bolshevik leader…
Soviet politician Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko authorised the use of chemical weapons against a peasant rebellion in the Ta
Elizabeth Coleman was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license, and is the earliest known Black p…
Bessie Coleman (pictured) became the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license from the Fédération Aér
Major-General Thomas Stanton Lambert was a British Army officer who served in the First World War. He joined the East Lancashire Regiment in 1891 and held a succession of regimenta…
British Army officer Thomas Stanton Lambert was assassinated by the Irish Republican Army near Moydrum, Ireland
The Irish War of Independence, also known as the Anglo-Irish War, was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army and British forces: the …
Irish War of Independence: Most of the village of Knockcroghery in County Roscommon was burned by British forces
Yan Ruisheng is a 1921 Chinese silent film directed by Ren Pengnian and starring Chen Shouzi and Wang Caiyun. A docudrama based on the murder of Wang Lianying the previous year, it…
Yan Ruisheng (advertisement pictured), the first full-length Chinese film, is released in Shanghai.
The Irish War of Independence, also known as the Anglo-Irish War, was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army and British forces: the …
Irish War of Independence: One day after a truce was agreed between the Irish Republican Army and British forces,…
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany in the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Part…
Adolf Hitler became leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, responsible for defending the country, the Crown Dependencies, and the Overseas Territories from naval attack …
The Royal Navy's R.38, the world's largest airship at the time, was destroyed by a structural failure over Hull,…
The Mortimer War Memorial is a monument that commemorates the lives of servicemen from Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire, England, who were killed in war. Unveiled on 9 October 1921, …
The Mortimer War Memorial (pictured), designed by Herbert Maryon in memory of local servicemen who died in the First…
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was a revolutionary, and later, communist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republi…
The Soviet republics of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia signed the Treaty of Kars with the Grand National…
The Chicago Theatre, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre, is a theater on North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1921, the Chicago …
The Chicago Theatre (pictured), the oldest surviving grand movie palace, opened.