WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1921
Find out what all happened January to December 1921

The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the RSFSR. (18. October 1921)

U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States. (30. June 1921)

President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep south. (21. October 1921)

16-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America. (8. September 1921)

İstiklal Marşı was adopted in TBMM(Turkish grand national assembly). (12. March 1921)

Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan to colonize Palestine and creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel. (11. September 1921)

Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (10. July 1921)

After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia. (22. February 1921)

The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of War Communism. (21. March 1921)

Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court. (3. August 1921)

Former President of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices. (11. July 1921)

In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held. (7. September 1921)

The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic. (11. July 1921)

Serbian King Alexander I proclaimed the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution. (28. June 1921)

The Soviet republics of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia sign the Treaty of Kars with the Grand National Assembly of Turkey to establish the contemporary borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states. (13. October 1921)

Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar. (27. July 1921)

The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives. (6. December 1921)

Italian Fascists shoot from the Parenzana train at a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia): two children are killed and five wounded. (19. March 1921)

A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect. (11. July 1921)

Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England. (15. April 1921)

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