1921 H2 TimelineJuly00 - U.S. experiences a short, but severe, post-war recession due to industrial overproduction and elimination of defense-related industries, marked bywidespread wage cuts and unemployment that reaches 5.7 million in aug.
02 - USASports Jack Dempsey KOs George S Carpentier in 4 for heavyweight boxing title. 1st million dollar gate ($1.7m) boxing match.
11 - Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day).
14 - Sacco & Vanzetti convicted of first-degree murder for killing their shoe company's paymaster in Dedham Massachusetts.
18 - American Astronaut John Glenn born.
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18 - Black Sox trial begins in Chicago.
August00 - IndiaPolitics Gandhi leads campaign for a boycott of foreign cloth and lights a bonfire of foreign cloth in Bombay.
00 - Mass famine, with an estimated 18 million in danger of starvation, underway in Russia due to continuing economic crisis. On aug 21 1921, the U.S. signs an agreement with Russia to provide relief, and by year's end, 1 million children are getting emergency food rations.
02 - Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox.
03 - Due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal are acquited, however Landis throws them out of baseball.
05 - Pittsburgh, PARadio First baseball game with a "play-by-play" description airs on KDKA.The National League Pittsburgh Corsairs beat Philadelphia 8-5, called by Harold Arlin.
22 - Hair bobbing gains national attention as State Barber's Commission of Connecticut rule that women that bob hair must have a barber's license
22 - J Edgar Hoover becomes asst director of FBI.
26 - Matthias Erzberger, German min of Finance, murdered at 45.
26 - Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia 1903-
September00 - First Miss America Pagent + in Atlantic City.
07 - Tarzan of the Apes opens on Broadway.
08 - Angry members of the National Women's Party entered the U.S. capitol, with buckets, brushes and soap, to clean a statue of Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, that had been stored away in a dirty storage closet.
08 - Mary Gorman, Washington, DC, 16, crowned 1st Miss America.
15 - WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions.
15 - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus.
19 - First stretch of the autobahn completed in Germany.
21 - Pope Benedictus XV donates 1 million lire to feed Russians.
21 - Gas explodes at Bradishe Aniline chemical works in Germany, 565 die.
22 - Estonia & Lithuania admitted to League of Nations.
25 - Charlie Chaplin's The Idle Class opens.
October04 - League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians.
16 - USASociety 100% divorce rate increase since 1896; St. Louis Court of Domestic Relations contribute this to women's growing feeling of independence
November01 - National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League.
02 - Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie premieres on Broadway.
02 - USASociety American Birth Control League is formed from the merger of Margaret Sanger's National Birth Control League and Mary Ware Dennet's Voluntary Parenthood League.
11 - Pres Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier established, with burial of the unknown soldier at Washington, D.C.'s, Arlington National Cemetary."Here rests in honored glory an American soldier, known but to God." "Under the wide and starry skies of his own homeland, America's unknown dead from France sleeps tonight, a soldier home from the wars. Alone he lies in the narrow cell of white stone that guards his body; but his soul has entered into the spirit that is America. Wherever liberty is held close to men's hearts, the honor and the glory and the pledge of high endeavor poured out over this nameless one of fame will be told and sung by Americans of all time..." --Kirke L. Simpson
13 - US, France, Japan & British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty.
13 - "Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released.
14 - USAFilm German Psychiatric film Cabinet of Dr. Caligari opens in U.S.
15 - Radio KYW-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions.
21 - Radio Little Folks Magazine bought commercial time on Eunice Randall's children's story hour on WGI. Could be first radio commercials.
December00 - Britain's post-war recession (a.k.a. "the slump") worsens, with unemployment reaching 2 million (18 percent).
06 - Southern part of Ireland declared a British dominion, with the same home rule status as Canada, and named the Irish Free State with the signing of a peace treaty between Britain and the Irish parliament, ratified on jan 1922.
07 - Radio KWG-AM in Stockton CA begins radio transmissions.
21 - Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional.
25 - USAPolitics Eugen V. Debs, socailist presidential hopeful is released from prison, following a spirited amnesty campaign.
29 - William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM.
31 - Last San Francisco firehorses retired.
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