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1921
 
  
Tulsa race riots cap previous levels of violence, with more than eighty-five blacks killed     
1921
 
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The British parliament ratifies the Anglo-Irish treaty, but de Valera repudiates it and resigns as president of the Dáil       
De Valera, Illustrated London News 1921
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1921
 
     
Italian sex symbol Rudolph Valentino has two sensational hits within the same year, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and The Sheik        
1921
 
    
Faisal, having lost Syria, is given the throne in the British mandated territory of Iraq       
1921
 
    
Somerset Maugham's short story 'Rain' (in his collection The Trembling of a Leaf) introduces the lively American prostitute Sadie Thompson       
1921
 
    
The British airship R-38 bursts into flames on its fourth flight and crashes into the Humber       
1921
 
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Abd-el-Krim wins a sensational victory over Spanish forces in Morocco and gains control of the Rif      
1921
 
   
Marianne Moore calls her first published collection simply Poems      
1921
 
    
Ludwig Wittgenstein publishes his influential study of the philosophy of logic, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus       
1921
 
    
Taras Bulba, a rhapsody for orchestra by Leos Janacek, is first performed in Brno