WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1921
Find out what all happened June to December 1921

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

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

Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (1. June 1921)

The Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria (Fatherland Altar) in Rome. (4. November 1921)

The Communist Party of Spain is founded. (14. November 1921)

The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery. (11. November 1921)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

The first Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle ends in a hung jury. (4. December 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)

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

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