WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO NOVEMBER 1921
Find out what all happened May to November 1921

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: one of the first scandals of the Hollywood community. (5. September 1921)

A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect. (11. July 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 Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria (Fatherland Altar) in Rome. (4. November 1921)

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

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

President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep south. (21. October 1921)

Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court. (3. August 1921)

The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens. (24. May 1921)

Baseball: The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time. (5. October 1921)

Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike. (20. June 1921)

U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States. (30. June 1921)

Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (1. June 1921)

The Communist Party of China is founded. (1. July 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 U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration. (19. May 1921)

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

Southwark Bridge in London is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary. (6. June 1921)

The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur. (25. August 1921)

Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party. (29. July 1921)

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