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next turn year 1921

events

January[edit] January 1 – In American football, the University of California, Berkeley defeats Ohio State 28–0 in the Rose Bowl.

January 2 The football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as Palestra Italia in Brazil.

The first religious radio broadcast is heard over station KDKA AM in Pittsburgh. Spanish liner Santa Isabel sinks off Villa Garcia; 244 die.

The De Young Museum opens in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

January 20 – British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in the English Channel; all 56 on board die.

January 21 The Italian Communist Party is founded in Livorno.

The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa.

Women's suffrage is attained in Sweden.

The full-length silent comedy-drama film The Kid, written, produced, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin (in his Tramp character), with Jackie Coogan, is released in the United States.

January 25 – The Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci is righted in Taranto Harbour.

February[edit]

February 20 – The Young Communist League of bohemia is founded.

February 21 – 1921 Persian coup d'état: Rezā Khan and Zia'eddin Tabatabaee stage a coup d'état in Iran.

February 23 – The moderately conservative public official Oscar von Sydow takes over the Swedish premiership, from Baron Louis De Geer the Younger.

February 27 – The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is formed in Vienna.

February 28 – The Kronstadt rebellion is initiated by sailors of the Soviet Navy's Baltic Fleet.

March[edit]

March 4: Warren G. Harding is 29th President of the United States.

March – The Group Settlement Scheme in Western Australia begins.

March 1 The city of Kiryū, located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, is founded.

The Australia national cricket team, led by Warwick Armstrong, becomes the first to complete a whitewash in The Ashes, something that will not be repeated for 86 years.

March 4 – Warren G. Harding is sworn in, as the 29th President of the United States.

March 5 – Irish War of Independence: Clonbanin Ambush: The Irish Republican Army kills Brigadier General Cumming.

March 6 – The Portuguese Communist Party is founded.

March 8 Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato e Iradier is assassinated, while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.

March 12 – The İstiklâl Marşı (Independence March), the Turkish national anthem, is officially adopted.

March 16 – Six Irish Republican Army men of the Forgotten Ten are hanged in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin.

March 17 Dr. Marie Stopes opens the first birth control clinic in London, England.

The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.

March 21 Irish War of Independence – Headford Ambush: The Irish Republican Army kills at least 9 British Army troops.

March 24 – The 1921 Women's Olympiad (the first international women's sports event) begins in Monte Carlo.

April[edit] April – The United States Figure Skating Association is formed.

April 11 – The Emirate of Transjordan is created, with Abdullah I as emir.

April 14 – In Britain, labour unions for mining, railway and transportation workers call for a strike; the government threatens to call in the army.

April 20 – Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom is first produced on Broadway, in English.