01 Jan 1921
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Pierre Barjot was assigned to the ship Aldebaran and served in Asia.
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04 Jan 1921
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USS Arizona departed New York City, New York, United States.
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05 Jan 1921
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Jean was born.
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12 Jan 1921
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Argentina recognized the Republic of Estonia.
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16 Jan 1921
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In the Japanese Navy, all ships except for battleships, battlecruisers, and cruisers were now named by the Minister of the Navy without the need for Emperor's approval.
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19 Jan 1921
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USS Arizona arrived at Colón, Panama Canal Zone and entered the canal.
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20 Jan 1921
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history
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USS Arizona passed through the Panama Canal and reached the Pacific Ocean.
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22 Jan 1921
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history
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USS Arizona departed the Panama Canal Zone.
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26 Jan 1921
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history
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France and the United Kingdom recognized the Republic of Estonia.
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29 Jan 1921
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Tama was commissioned into service.
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29 Jan 1921
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Kiso was commissioned into service.
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29 Jan 1921
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The Congregational Holiness Church was formally organized, following a split the previous year with the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Headquartered today in Griffin, GA, most CHC churches are located in the Southeast US.
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31 Jan 1921
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USS Arizona arrived at Callao, Peru.
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01 Feb 1921
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history
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Maximilian von Weichs was promoted to the rank of Major.
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05 Feb 1921
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history
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USS Arizona departed Callao, Peru.
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14 Feb 1921
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USS Arizona arrived at Balboa, Colombia.
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15 Feb 1921
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Robert von Greim was promoted to the rank of Hauptmann.
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22 Feb 1921
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history
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USS Arizona passed through the Panama Canal.
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22 Feb 1921
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history
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In Russia, the State General Planning Commission (Gosplan) was established as an advisory body to the Council of Labour and Defence.
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25 Feb 1921
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Oswald Mosley's daughter Vivien Elizabeth Mosley was born.
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25 Feb 1921
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Russia occupied Tblisi, the capital of Georgia.
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25 Feb 1921
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Major General Kojiro Satoi was named the chief of staff of the Taiwan Army.
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26 Feb 1921
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USS Arizona arrived at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.
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01 Mar 1921
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Edmund Herring was admitted to practice law as a barrister and solicitor in Victoria, Australia.
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03 Mar 1921
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Prince Kotohito departed Japan to tour Europe with Prince Hirohito.
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05 Mar 1921
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history
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The Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato was assassinated by Catalan anarchists in Madrid, Spain.
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24 Mar 1921
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history
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Carrier Eagle underwent a reconstruction at Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom.
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27 Mar 1921
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The first Southern Baptist church to be constituted in the state of Arizona was organized in Phoenix formed principally of churchmen who protested the doctrinal views held by leaders of the Northern Baptist Convention.
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28 Mar 1921
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Herschel Grynszpan was born.
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29 Mar 1921
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history
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Joseph Rochefort married Elma Fay Aery in California, United States.
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07 Apr 1921
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history
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Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria married Princess Antoinette of Luxembourg. The ceremony was conducted by Pope Pius XII.
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11 Apr 1921
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USS R-1 was ordered to join the Pacific Fleet.
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11 Apr 1921
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history
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USS R-5 departed the east coast of the United States.
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12 Apr 1921
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history
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Canadian Lieutenant Colonel James Sutherland Brown developed Defense Scheme No. 1 to prepare for the situation in which the Americans would invade Canada. The plan called for a rapid offense and occupation of Seattle, Great Falls, Minneapolis, and Albany in the United States to buy time for British reinforcements to arrive. This plan was terminated in 1928.
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15 Apr 1921
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Kitakami was commissioned into service.
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18 Apr 1921
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history
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Lawrence was commissioned into service.
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20 Apr 1921
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history
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Tenryu was placed in reserve at Kure, Japan for the installation of radio direction finder equipment.
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24 Apr 1921
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history
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USS Arizona departed Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.
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29 Apr 1921
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history
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USS Arizona arrived at New York City, New York, United States.
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04 May 1921
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history
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Lieutenant General Heitaro Fukuda was named the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army.
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04 May 1921
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history
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Harry Daghlian was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States.
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11 May 1921
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history
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Semyon Timoshenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the second time.
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16 May 1921
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history
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Joseph Rochefort took a test at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States for transferring to the regular navy.
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19 May 1921
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Joseph Rochefort was assigned to minesweeper Cardinal based at San Pedro, California, United States as the ship's chief engineer.
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24 May 1921
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In southern Ireland the Sinn Fein party was re-elected unopposed.
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26 May 1921
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Iwane Matsui assigned to the staff of the Japanese Vladivostok Expeditionary Force during the Siberian Intervention.
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28 May 1921
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USS R-5 transited the Panama Canal.
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08 Jun 1921
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history
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HMS Effingham was launched.
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08 Jun 1921
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history
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Edmund Herring signed the roll of counsel of the Victorian Bar.
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10 Jun 1921
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history
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Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark (later Duke of Edinburgh) was born at Corfu, Greece.
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15 Jun 1921
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history
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Rear Admiral Yasuzo Torisaki was named the chief of staff of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea.
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15 Jun 1921
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history
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USS Arizona departed New York City, New York, United States.
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17 Jun 1921
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history
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Margaret Ray was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States.
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29 Jun 1921
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history
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In Britain, Lady Randolph Churchill died at her London home from gangrene that had set in following the amputation of a leg after a fall.
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30 Jun 1921
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USS R-1 arrived at San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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30 Jun 1921
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history
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USS R-5 arrived at San Pedro, California, United States.
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01 Jul 1921
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USS Arizona became the flagship of Vice Admiral John McDonald, commanding officer of Battle Force of the US Navy Atlantic Fleet; McDonald had been the battleship's first commanding officer almost five years prior.
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01 Jul 1921
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Maryland was commissioned into service.
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06 Jul 1921
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history
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A truce was signed between the British Government and the IRA to allow negotiations to take place. The Nationalists wanted an independent Republic whilst the Lloyd George offered to create an Irish State with Dominion status under the king. As the weeks went by Lloyd George gradually won over the Irish delegates and finally obtained agreement (except for the status of Ulster) by an ultimatum - Peace or War. The Nationalists did not challenge it.
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09 Jul 1921
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USS Arizona departed New York City, New York, United States.
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13 Jul 1921
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history
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Continuing experiments started at Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, United States in Jun 1921 to test the effectiveness of various weapons against surface ships, US Army bombers sank the Destroyer G-102.
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18 Jul 1921
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US Army and Navy aircraft sank light cruiser Frankfurt at Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, United States in experimental attacks on ships.
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20 Jul 1921
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history
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US Army, Navy, and Marine aircraft attacked battleship Ostfriesland at Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, United States in experimental attacks on ships.
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20 Jul 1921
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history
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Major General Kinichi Yasumitsu was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea.
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21 Jul 1921
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After dropping a total of 63 bombs since the previous day in experimental attacks on ships, including 1,000-pound and 2,000-pound bombs, battleship Ostfriesland sank in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, United States, proving that capital ships could be destroyed by unopposed aircraft.
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22 Jul 1921
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USS Arizona arrived at Callao, Peru to observe the Peruvian independence celebrations.
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28 Jul 1921
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history
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Franklin Roosevelt set sail aboard a yacht from New York, New York, United States for a Boy Scouts event further north up the Hudson River.
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29 Jul 1921
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history
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Adolf Hitler formally became the head of the Nationalsozialistische Deutches Arbeiter Partei (NSDAP), or the Nazi Party.
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30 Jul 1921
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history
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Annabelle Craft was born in Galesburg, Illinois, United States.
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01 Aug 1921
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history
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California was commissioned into service.
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01 Aug 1921
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history
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Vice Admiral Kiyokaze Yoshida was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan.
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03 Aug 1921
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history
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USS Arizona departed Callao, Peru.
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06 Aug 1921
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history
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The former German battleship Baden was sunk by the Royal Navy as a gunnery target.
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07 Aug 1921
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history
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The Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
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09 Aug 1921
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history
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While sailing with his family in the Bay of Fundy off eastern Canada, Franklin Roosevelt fell into the cold waters.
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10 Aug 1921
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history
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USS Arizona became the flagship of Battleship Division 7's Rear Admiral Josiah McKean at Balboa, Colombia.
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11 Aug 1921
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history
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Dr. E. H. Bennett diagnosed Franklin Roosevelt with a severe cold.
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12 Aug 1921
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history
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Franklin Roosevelt lost the use of his legs.
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13 Aug 1921
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history
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Franklin Roosevelt became paralyzed from the chest down.
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14 Aug 1921
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history
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Dr. William Keen diagnosed Franklin Roosevelt as having a blood clot in his spine.
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17 Aug 1921
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history
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Kichisaburo Nomura was made a member of the Japanese delegation for the Washington Naval Conference.
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18 Aug 1921
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history
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Lydia Litvyak was born in Moscow, Russia.
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20 Aug 1921
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history
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Joseph Rochefort became one of the rare few during this period who were transferred from the naval reserve into the United States Navy. He was given the rank of ensign.
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21 Aug 1921
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history
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Settsu completed her work at Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan.
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21 Aug 1921
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history
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USS Arizona arrived at San Diego, California, United States.
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25 Aug 1921
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history
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Dr. Robert Lovett diagnosed Franklin Roosevelt with poliomyelitis; this was supported by Dr. E. H. Bennett.
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01 Sep 1921
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history
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The US battleship Washington (BB47) was launched by New York Shipbuilding but was cancelled as a consequence of the Washington Treaty of 1922 before completion.
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03 Sep 1921
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history
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Prince Kotohito returned to Japan.
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16 Sep 1921
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history
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The newspaper New York Times announced that US politician Franklin Roosevelt was suffering from poliomyelitis.
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23 Sep 1921
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history
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Naoshi Kanno was born in a village near Edano (now Kakuda), Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
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24 Sep 1921
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history
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Prince Kotohito was awarded Collar of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum.
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30 Sep 1921
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history
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Tony Stein was born.
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01 Oct 1921
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history
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Georg von Bismarck was transferred to the German 3rd Cavalry Regiment.
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10 Oct 1921
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history
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Oi was commissioned into service.
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10 Oct 1921
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history
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Settsu was reclassified as a guard ship and training vessel.
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14 Oct 1921
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history
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Boris Shaposhnikov was awarded his first Order of the Red Banner.
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19 Oct 1921
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history
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Harry Dimoline was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant with the 59th (4th West Lancashire) Medium Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery, British Territorial Army.
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19 Oct 1921
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history
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RELIGIOUS
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Birth of Bill Bright, American youth evangelist. Bill and his wife Vonette founded Campus Crusade for Christ in 1951, incorporating this evangelical Christian student organization in California in 1953.
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24 Oct 1921
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history
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Mutsu was assigned to the Sasebo Naval District, Japan.
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25 Oct 1921
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history
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Mihai I was born.
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25 Oct 1921
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history
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RELIGIOUS
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Franklin Small, 48, and a group of dissatisfied members of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, obtained a Dominion charter to establish the Apostolic Church of Pentecost of Canada. In 1953, this group merged with the Evangelical Churches of Pentecost, whose major congregations are located today in the Canadian prairie provinces.
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26 Oct 1921
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history
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In a speech in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, President Warren Harding advocated Civil Rights for African-Americans.
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29 Oct 1921
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history
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Bill Mauldin was born.
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01 Nov 1921
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history
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Chuichi Nagumo was named the chief of staff of the First Minelayer Flotilla.
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01 Nov 1921
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history
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Kiyoshi Ito was born in Murakami, Niigata, Japan.
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07 Nov 1921
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history
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The Fasci di combattiment (Fighting Fascists) organization in Italy was transformed into the Partito Nazionale Fascista (Fascist National Party).
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10 Nov 1921
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history
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Hiroaki Abe was transferred out of Japanese Navy 3rd Fleet.
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10 Nov 1921
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history
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Lorraine began a period of refitting.
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13 Nov 1921
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history
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Light carrier Hosho was launched.
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16 Nov 1921
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history
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Joseph Rochefort requested transfer to battleship USS Connecticut.
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20 Nov 1921
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history
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Captain Shigezo Oyamada was named the commanding officer of Settsu.
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01 Dec 1921
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history
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Vice Admiral Kesataro Kawahara succeeded Vice Admiral Naoe Nakano as the commanding officer of the Ryojun Military Port (previously known as Port Arthur; now Lushunkou, Liaoning Province, China), Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China.
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01 Dec 1921
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history
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Tenryu was recommissioned into service and was assigned to Destroyer Squadron 1 of Japanese 1st Fleet. Captain Noriyoshi Yoko was named her commanding officer.
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01 Dec 1921
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history
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Masafumi Arima was promoted to the rank of lieutenant.
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05 Dec 1921
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history
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Satoru Anabuki was born in the village of Yamada (now in the town of Ayagawa), Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.
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06 Dec 1921
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history
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A treaty was signed between the British Government and the Irish Nationalists, and the Irish Free State came into existence.
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18 Dec 1921
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history
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WW2
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The 40,000-ton battleship Tosa was launched by Mitsubishi at Nagasaki, Japan. Intended to be one of the second pair of high-speed battleships under the 8-8 programme, she would be cancelled before completion by the Washington Treaty and eventually scuttled on 9 Feb 1925.
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19 Dec 1921
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history
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Karl von Le Suire was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class.
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21 Dec 1921
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history
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Erwin Rommel joined the post-WW1 German Reichswehr and became the commanding officer of 4th Company of the 13th Infantry Regiment based in Stuttgart.
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22 Dec 1921
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history
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RELIGIOUS
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The first U.S. commercial radio license assigned to a religious broadcaster was awarded to the National Presbyterian Church of Washington, D.C. Within five years, there were over 60 other licensed religious broadcasters, including KJS_Biola (L.A.), KFUO_Concordia Seminary (St. Louis), and WMBI_Moody Bible Institute (Chicago).
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26 Dec 1921
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history
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WW2
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Vice Admiral Hisatsune Iida was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan.
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31 Dec 1921
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history
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WW2
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Joseph Rochefort was assigned to USS Connecticut.
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