WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO OCTOBER 1921
Find out what all happened July to October 1921

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: one of the first scandals of the Hollywood community. (5. September 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 Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed. (29. October 1921)

The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland. (7. September 1921)

George Melford's silent film, The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, premiers. (21. October 1921)

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

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

The Chicago Theatre opens. (26. October 1921)

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

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

Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia). (14. August 1921)

The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25 game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football. (29. October 1921)

Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in the United States of America. (29. October 1921)

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

Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party. (29. July 1921)