1921
Josephine Baker (15) runs away from home in St. Louis, Missouri, and becomes a maid for singer Bessie Smith. It's not long before Baker proves her own singing ability.
1921
Twenty one blacks and ten whites are killed during a riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1921
Walter Riehl's Austrian Nazi party (DNSAP) holds its first party meeting in Linz, Austria, Hitler's hometown. (Forgotten Nazis)
1921
Karl von Habsburg, the deposed emperor of Austria-Hungary, founds the International Pan-European Movement.
1921
Hitler founds the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth).
1921
American Jews boycott Henry Ford for his alleged antisemitism.
1921
The SA (also called the Brownshirts) is formed from the ranks of Ernst Roehm's private army. (Grolier)
1921
At the Tenth Party Congress, Lenin introduces his New Economic Policy, restoring some private property, ending restrictions on private trade, and terminating forced grain requisitions.The foundations for building Bolshevik socialism have been laid but the revolutionary period proper has come to an end.
1921
Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels establishes another Order of the New
Templars (ONT) priory at Marienkamp in Budapest, Hungary. Lanz regularly
corresponds with ONT brothers in Germany, Austria, Great Britain, the United
States and South Americas. (Roots)
1921
The Fascist party in Italy elects 35 members to parliament.
Mussolini's oratorical skills, the postwar economic crisis, a widespread lack of
confidence in the traditional political system, and a growing fear of socialism,
all helped the Fascist party to grow to 300,000 registered members by 1921.
1921
Achille Ratti, the future Pope Pius XI, becomes cardinal-archbishop of Milan.
1921
The Reparations Commission fixes Germany's war reparations at 132 billion gold marks.
1921
Nesta H. Webster publishes World Revolution which links the French Revolution, the Illuminati, Jacobians, Freemasonry, the Jews and Communism. The book creates a sensation, and is widely read, both in Europe and
America.
1921
Albert Einstein's receives the Nobel Prize for physics -- it was awarded not for relativity, but for his 1905 work on the photoelectric effect. His theories of relativity still remained controversial for his less
flexibly minded colleagues.
1921 January
Hitler claims that he is reunited with his old friend and former sergeant, Max Amann, by accident, while walking along a Munich street.
1921 January 16
Aristide Briand forms a new liberal cabinet in France.
1921 February 20
The first local branches of the National Socialist party are established.
1921 March
The naval garrison at Kronshtadt, long a Bolshevik stronghold, rebels along with Petrograd workers in favor of "Soviet Communism without the Bolsheviks!" The protest is brutally suppressed.
1921 March
Great Britain and France recognize de facto the Soviet Government as the legitimate government of Russia.
1921 March 3
The Romano-Polish Treaty of Alliance is signed.
1921 March 4
Warren G. Harding is inaugurated 29th President of the
United States.
1921 March 18
The Treaty of Riga is signed between Russia and Poland. The Polish-Russian frontier is defined and Poland receives a large slice of Russian territory.
1921 March 20
A plebiscite is held in Upper Silesia.
1921 April 2
Albert Einstein arrives in New York to give a lecture
at Columbia University on his new theory of relativity. It will open up a
totally new way of thinking and will displace much of the scientifiic theory
which has preceded it.
