WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO OCTOBER 1921
Find out what all happened May to October 1921

Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia). (14. 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)

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

The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration. (19. May 1921)

The Communist Party of China is founded. (1. July 1921)

Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike. (20. June 1921)

Baseball: The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time. (5. October 1921)

The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed. (29. October 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. (23. August 1921)

Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in the United States of America. (29. 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)

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

The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens. (24. May 1921)

The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur. (25. August 1921)

The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali (leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire) as King Faisal I of Iraq. (27. August 1921)

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

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

The Chicago Theatre opens. (26. October 1921)

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

A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500-600 people. (21. September 1921)

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