WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1921
Find out what all happened August to 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 first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur. (25. August 1921)

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

The Sturmabteilung or SA, whose members were known as "brownshirts", physically assault Adolf Hitler's opposition after his speech in Munich. (4. November 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)

Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated. (23. December 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 Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland. (7. September 1921)

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

The first Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle ends in a hung jury. (4. December 1921)

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

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

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

Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo. (4. November 1921)

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

The Chicago Theatre opens. (26. October 1921)

Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup. (19. October 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)