40 events found for 1921
Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin…
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day…
Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict: Mikhail Frunze declares victory over the Makhnovshchina.
Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported…
British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary; of her 49…
Russian Civil War: The Red Army dissolves the Makhnovshchina after driving the Revolutionary Insurgent Army out of…
In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin,…
Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed…
Nahalal, a Jewish moshav in Palestine, is settled.
Rif War: In Ajdir, Spanish Morocco, a secessionist group of Berbers led by Abd el-Krim proclaim the Republic of the…
A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
The World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time.
KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
The Portuguese Prime Minister and several officials are murdered in the Bloody Night coup.
President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. president against lynching in the Deep South.