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| 1921 |
| | | The Sinn Fein members of southern Ireland's new parliament assemble on their own, under the name Dáil Eireann (Assembly of Ireland) | |
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| 1921 |
| | | The Young Kikuyu Association is formed in Kenya, to fight for African rights and the restoration of Kikuyu land | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Alfred Adler, in Vienna, opens the first of many child-guidance clinics | |
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| 1921 |
| | | The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland appoints James Craig the first prime minister of the new Northern Ireland Parliament | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Paul Klee becomes a teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Franklin Delano Roosevelt is paralyzed from the waist down by polio | |
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| 1921 |
| | | The Czech playwright Karel Capek gives the world the term 'robot', in the title of his play Rossum's Universal Robots | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Russian author Maxim Gorky goes abroad for medical treatment and lives for the next seven years in Italy | |
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| 1921 |
| | | The Parliament of Northern Ireland convenes for the first time | |
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| 1921 |
| | | James Craig (later Lord Craigavon) begins a 19-year term as prime minister of the new province of Northern Ireland | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Envoys sent to London by de Valera agree independence for southern Ireland as the Irish Free State, with Dominion status | |
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| 1921 |
| | | The Anglo-Irish Treaty, agreed in London, ends the war between the British army and the IRA | |
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| 1921 |
| | | The Swiss architect Le Corbusier begins a 20-year partnership with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi party, which now has about 3000 members | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Italian immigrant anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are convicted of murder in a US trial flawed by prejudice | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Mao Zedong leads a delegation to the First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Tulsa race riots cap previous levels of violence, with more than eighty-five blacks killed | |
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| 1921 |
| | | The British parliament ratifies the Anglo-Irish treaty, but de Valera repudiates it and resigns as president of the Dáil | |
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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 | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Faisal, having lost Syria, is given the throne in the British mandated territory of Iraq | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Somerset Maugham's short story 'Rain' (in his collection The Trembling of a Leaf) introduces the lively American prostitute Sadie Thompson | |
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| 1921 |
| | | The British airship R-38 bursts into flames on its fourth flight and crashes into the Humber | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Abd-el-Krim wins a sensational victory over Spanish forces in Morocco and gains control of the Rif | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Marianne Moore calls her first published collection simply Poems | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Ludwig Wittgenstein publishes his influential study of the philosophy of logic, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Taras Bulba, a rhapsody for orchestra by Leos Janacek, is first performed in Brno | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Janacek's opera Kátya Kabanová, based on Ostrovsky's play The Storm, has its premiere in Brno | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie is performed in New York | |
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| 1921 |
| | | W.L. Mackenzie King begins a nine-year spell as Canadian prime minister, albeit with a brief interruption in 1926 | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to sit in Canada's parliament | |
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| 1921 November 11 |
| | | The first of America's 'unknown soldiers' is placed in the new Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery | |
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| 1922 |
| | | James Joyce's novel Ulysses is published in Paris, by Sylvia Beach, because of censorship problems elsewhere | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Ambrogio Ratti is elected pope and takes the name Pius XI | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The Marconi company in England pioneers a regular broadcasting service from its 2MT radio station near Chelmsford | |
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| 1922 |
| | | De Witt Wallace and his wife, working from home, publish the first issue of Reader's Digest | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Robert J. Flaherty lives with the Inuit in the Arctic to make his dramatized documentary Nanook of the North | |
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