Events Date 1921 P 2 | History by KabAstro

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Pop-up Toaster

Oct 18 Charles Strite granted US patent #1,394,450 for his invention, the automatic pop-up toaster

Oct 19 Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup
Oct 20 Germany and Allies comes to an agreements over reparation payments in a meeting at Wiensbaden
Oct 20 The French and Mustafa Kemal nationalists sign a treaty at Ankara fixing the Turko-Syrian border
Oct 21 Former Hungarian King Karl stages a second attempted coup and is arrested
Oct 21 Tuschinski Theater opens in Amsterdam
Oct 23 Green Bay Packers play 1st APFA (forerunner to NFL) game; beat Minneapolis Marines, 7-6 at Hagemeister Park, Green Bay, WI

Kat'a Kabanova

Oct 23 Leos Janacek's opera "Kat'a Kabanova" premieres in Brno

Oct 26 Solomon Porter Hood named US minister to Liberia
Oct 28 Amsterdam's Tuschinski movie theater opens
Oct 28 First American gubernatorial recall election is held in North Dakota. Governor Lynn Frazier loses to Ragnvald A. Nestos by just over 4,000 votes (1.8%).
Oct 29 The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed in northern California and Oregon

The Sheik

Oct 30 "The Sheik", a silent film starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres in Los Angeles, California

Actor and Silent Film Idol Rudolph Valentino

Oct 31 Federation Sportive Feminine International forms (1st woman track & field association)
Nov 1 National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League

Anna Christie

Nov 2 Eugene O'Neill's play "Anna Christie" premieres in NYC

Nov 4 Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated by a right wing fanatic in Tokyo

Brown Shirts Established

Nov 4 The Sturmabteilung or SA (the "Brown Shirts") is formally established by Adolf Hitler

Nov 5 Soviet Russia signs a treaty with Mongolia, temporarily supporting the new government against China and Japanese incursions
Nov 7 Ed Wynn's musical revue "The Perfect Fool" premieres in NYC
Nov 7 Hungary passes a law invalidating the Habsburg line of succession to the throne

Fascist Party

Nov 9 Partito Nazionalista Fascista formed in Italy by Benito Mussolini at Third Fascist Congress in Rome

Tomb of Unknown Soldier

Nov 11 US President Warren G. Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery

Nov 12 Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
Nov 13 US, France, Japan and British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
Nov 14 The Communist Party of Spain is founded
Nov 15 KYW-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
Nov 21 The trial of the accused of the Bulhoek Massacre commences in South Africa
Nov 23 US President Warren G. Harding signs Willis Campbell Act (Beer Emergency Bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes
Nov 26 Danish composer Rued Langgaard's "Music of the Spheres" (Sfærernes Musik) premieres at Konzerthaus in Karlsruhe, Germany; it is not performed in Denmark until 1969
Nov 28 Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha (Baha'i festival-Qawl 6, 78)
Nov 29 Coldest day in November in Netherlands -14.0°C
Dec 1 1st US helium-filled dirigible makes its 1st flight
Dec 1 US Post Office establishes philatelic agency
Dec 4 American Professional Football Association Championship, Cubs Park, Chicago: Chicago Staleys beat Buffalo All-Americans, 10-7 in de facto championship game after teams tied in standings
Dec 4 The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle ends in a hung jury

Anglo-Irish Treaty Signed

Dec 6 Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland

Signature page of the Anglo-Irish Treaty

Liberal Party Victory

Dec 6 Canada's Liberal Party and its leader Mackenzie King defeats Arthur Meighen's Conservative Party and Thomas Crerar' Progressive Party in general election, goes on to form a minority government

10th Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King

9th Prime Minister of Canada Arthur Meighen

Dec 7 KWG-AM in Stockton CA begins radio transmissions

Valera Rejects Anglo-Irish Treaty

Dec 8 Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty

Revolutionary and President of Ireland Éamon de Valera

Irish Revolutionary and Republican Politician Michael Collins

Anglo-Irish Treaty Ratified

Dec 16 The Anglo-Irish Treaty, agreed to by the British Parliament and Sinn Féin, is ratified

Dec 16 The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) calls for a united front in a pass burning campaign on Dingaan's Day
Dec 21 Supreme Court rules Arizona statute protecting labor rights to picket and insulating disputes from court injunctions is unconstitutional

Carlo Gambino Enters US

Dec 23 Gangster Carlo Gambino enters the United States as an illegal immigrant on the SS Vincenzo Florio

Visva-Bharati University Inaugurated

Dec 23 Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India, founded by Rabindranath Tagore

Dec 24 Ottawa’s Harry Broadbent scores in 10-0 Senators blowout of the Montreal Canadiens; first in 16-game NHL record goal-scoring streak; Charlie Simmer’s 13 game streak (1979) is considered modern-day record
Dec 25 Last major Potlatch (ceremony) by Chief Daniel Cranmer (Kwakwaka’wakw) from Alert Bay, British Columbia. Twenty-six people arrested, their masks and regalia sold by Canadian government. [1]
Dec 28 The beginning of the Rand Rebellion in Southern Africa; the rebellion started as a strike by white mineworkers on and became an open armed rebellion against the state
Dec 29 Mackenzie King is sworn in as the 10th Prime Minister of Canada
Dec 31 Last San Francisco firehorses retired