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1921
 
    
Janacek's opera Kátya Kabanová, based on Ostrovsky's play The Storm, has its premiere in Brno       
1921
 
    
Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie is performed in New York       
1921
 
   
W.L. Mackenzie King begins a nine-year spell as Canadian prime minister, albeit with a brief interruption in 1926      
1921
 
   
Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to sit in Canada's parliament      
1921 November 11
 
    
The first of America's 'unknown soldiers' is placed in the new Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery       
1922
 
     
James Joyce's novel Ulysses is published in Paris, by Sylvia Beach, because of censorship problems elsewhere        
1922
 
   
Ambrogio Ratti is elected pope and takes the name Pius XI      
1922
 
    
The Marconi company in England pioneers a regular broadcasting service from its 2MT radio station near Chelmsford       
1922
 
    
De Witt Wallace and his wife, working from home, publish the first issue of Reader's Digest       
1922
 
    
Robert J. Flaherty lives with the Inuit in the Arctic to make his dramatized documentary Nanook of the North