1921
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Events
- Giulio Douhet, intellectual air power strategist, publishes The Command of the Air
- Afghanistan adopts a formal constitution.
- General John Joseph Pershing is appointed Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
- Eskimo Pies and Wonderbread is sold for the first time.
- Green revolution begins with introduction of hybrid corn.
- U.S. Marines continue the nineteen year long occupation of Haiti, from 1915-1934.
- Postwar U.S. unemployment hits 3.5 million.
Timeline
- February: British and British colonial troops from India suppress popular Iraqi uprising.
- February 18: First helicopter flight by Frenchman Etienne Oehmichen.
- March 14, 1921: Armenian nationalist Soghomon Tehlirian assassinates former Turkish Minsiter of the Interior Talaat Pasha, in Berlin.
- March 17: V.I. Lenin introduces temporary N.E.P.
- May: United Communist Party and Communist Party merge to form the Communist Party of America.
- June 1: Race riot in Oklahoma kills 85.
- June 12: Four killed in Belfast in political violence.
- June 22: Irish Parliament is formally opened in Belfast City Hall with a speech by the British Monarch.
- June 23: IRA blows up train, killing 4 British soldiers and 80 horses.
- July 10: Bloody Sunday. In Belfast 161 homes of Roman Catholics burned and 14 people killed, 10 of them Roman Catholic.
- August: British government imposes "King Faisal" on Iraqis after the Syrians refuse to accept him as King and he was forced out in July 1920.
- September 4: Sinn Fein holds a mass rally in Armagh at which Michael Collins, the Irish Finance Minister, ang General Eoin O'Duffy, speak.
- September 16: Front page of The New York Times reports that 39 year old Franklin Delano Roosevelt is stricken with polio.
- September 21: 'Abdullah Muhammad Idris al-Sihayni declares himself to be the nabi 'isa or the Prophet Jesus and declares a jihad against the British colonial government of Sudan.
- September 26: 'Abdullah Muhammad Idris al-Sihayni leads a force of 5000 against Nyala Fort but are defeated, losing 600 dead to the 43 of ther British colonial army.
- October: Persian troops hang Kuchik Khan.
- October 4: 'Abdullah Muhammad Idris al-Sihayni is captured by the British colonial authorities.
- October 7: Babe Ruth hits 59 home runs in a season.
- October 28: 'Abdullah Muhammad Idris al-Sihayni is hanged by British colonial authorities.
- November 7-11: Italian Fascist Party (PNF) is formally established in its third Fascist Congress. The 1921 party program demands an end to taxes on inheritances and bondholders, abolition of public policy strikes, a large standing army, and liberty for the Roman Catholic Church to perform its "spiritual duties."\
- December: South African mining companies, electrical power stations (the Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Company or VFP) and engineering companies announce wage cuts for white workers.
- December 25: Socialist Party leader Eugene V. Debs is released from prison.