100 Years Ago Today

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2nd February 1921

The Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. The city is currently under Allied occupation.
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Ceremony for the Soviet secret police Cheka forces in Moscow.
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IRA forces led by Seán Mac Eoin ambush lorries carrying British auxiliaries at Clonfin, killing four and wounding 8. Site of the ambush.
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Ship Losses:

Esperanza de Larrinaga (United Kingdom) The cargo ship departed from Norfolk, Virginia for Reggio Calabria, Italy. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.
Lake Elmwood (United States) The Design 1074 cargo ship ran aground in the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, Germany. She was refloated on 7 February.
Léon Bonnat (France) The schooner ran aground on the Crym Rocks off the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom and was wrecked.

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3rd February 1921

Polish Marshal and Chief of State Józef Piłsudski paying his respects at the French Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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Marshal Pilsudski at the Elysée
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Ship Losses:

Mertainen (Sweden) The cargo ship ran aground at the entrance of the Trondheimsfjord, Norway. She was refloated but consequently beached.
Oak (United Kingdom) The cargo ship ran aground east of The Skerries, Anglesey and was abandoned by her crew. She was later refloated and towed into Holyhead.

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4th February 1921

Pilsudski at the Polish library, 6 quai d'Orléans in Paris, 4th arrondissement.
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Lonnie Eaton was convicted of murder and was to executed on this day, however the Sheriff forgot to carry out the hanging. It was then decided that the punishment would be changed to a life sentence as a pardon.
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5th February 1921

Soldiers using the library at Fort Lewis, Washington.
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6th February 1921

French nationalists commemorating the nationalist politician Paul Déroulède.
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Thomas Lynn Bradford, an American professor from Detroit, Michigan, killed himself to test his theory that a spirit world exists. He did not report back results.
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Ship Losses:

Ottawa (United Kingdom) The cargo ship, on a voyage from Norfolk, Virginia, United States to Manchester, Lancashire was in communication with Dorrington Court ( United Kingdom). No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

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7th February 1921

USS Selfridge (DD-320) commissioned.
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Ship Losses:

Klamate (United States) The cargo ship was wrecked whilst on a voyage from San Francisco, California to Portland, Oregon. Her crew were rescued.
Vital (Germany) The cargo ship collided with another vessel and sank off Delfzijl, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued by the other vessel.

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8th February 1921

A tank and tractor demonstration at Rock Creek Park, Washington D.C.
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Emperor Karl I of Austria (Charles IV of Hungary) in exile with his family in Switzerland. He is secretly eyeing the restoration of his throne in Hungary.
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Ship Losses:

Eskdale (United Kingdom) The cargo ship came ashore at the Heugh Lighthouse, Hartlepool, County Durham and was wrecked.

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9th FEBRUARY 1921

Edward, Prince of Wales, on his way to unveil a monument at Magdalen College, Oxford.
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Britain denies that relations with the United States are becoming strained, and refutes rumors that they are threatening war against their old colony.
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Ship Losses:

HMS Hydra (Royal Navy) The Acheron-class destroyer collided with the torpedo boat Z 3 ( Royal Navy) in the Weilingen Channel and sank. All 72 crew were rescued by Z 3.
Iocasti (Greece) The cargo ship caught fire in the Mediterranean Sea (36°44′N 1°28′W) and was abandoned.
Margarita (Greece) The cargo ship foundered on this date.
Sparkling Glance (United Kingdom) The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean.

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10th February 1921

U.S. Congress counts the electoral votes, formally certifying the election of Warren G. Harding as the next President of the U.S.
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Students at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (delegation of the General Student Association)
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11th February 1921

The White Star Line purchases the German ocean liner Bismarck, the largest ship in the world. The ship was handed over to Britain after the war as reparations and will be renamed RMS Majestic.
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Former Kaiser Wilhelm in his first interview since going into exile claims, “We would never have lost the war if my people had remained true to themselves.”
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Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (1897-1965), the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary.
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Ship Losses:

Abracadabrante (Spain) The schooner collided with Swainby ( United Kingdom) in the English Channel off Hartland Point, Devon and sank. Her crew were rescued by Swainby.
Bombardier (Belgium) The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean (45°53′N 54°10′W).
Marion Grace (United Kingdom) The schooner was driven ashore at Saint-Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and was wrecked.

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12th February 1921

Ship Losses:

Elizabeth Fearn (United Kingdom) The schooner was driven ashore at St. John's, Newfoundland and was wrecked.
Horley (United Kingdom) The cargo ship parted from her tow and cane ashore at Covehithe, Suffolk. She was refloated on 25 February.
Osiris (United States) The houseboat/yacht burned and sank off Miami, Florida.

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13th February 1921

Winston Churchill is appointed the new Secretary of State for the Colonies. He will mainly deal with the British occupation of the Middle East as well as negotiations in the Irish War of Independence. Winston Churchill in Mandatory Palestine.
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Ship Losses:

Hawker (United Kingdom) The schooner departed Patras, Greece, for Trapani, Sicily, Italy. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of all hands.

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14th February 1921

President Wilson and his cabinet during his last month in office (left) compared with him earlier in his Presidency (right). Wilson suffered a debilitating stroke in October 1919 that left him largely incapacitated.
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Ship Losses:

Victorieux (France) The cargo ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean (39°11′N 49°01′W) with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by Cranford ( United States).

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15th February 1921

IRA forces attack a train carrying British soldiers in Upton, Ireland. Six British soldiers are wounded and three IRA volunteers are killed, but eight civilians are caught in the crossfire and killed.
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Ship Losses:

Horace E. Munroe (United States) The schooner collided with Palma ( United Kingdom) in the Atlantic Ocean (35°22′N 3°14′W) and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by Palma.

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16th February 1921

Emigration from Central Europe to the United States is halted in response to a typhus outbreak.
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Su Zhu (Chinese politician who changes his name to Hua Guofeng and becomes Chairman and Premier of the People’s Republic of China after the deaths of Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou Enlai) is born in Shanxi province.
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Soviet invasion of Georgia begins, as troops of the 11th Red Army, led by Anatoly Gekker (pictured), cross the border towards the capital of Tbilisi.
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Ship Losses:

Charles G. Endicott (United States) The schooner struck a mine and sank in the Atlantic Ocean 60 nautical miles (110 km) north east of Cuba.
Progreso (Spain) The sailing ship sprang a leak and foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal. Her crew were rescued by a British merchant ship.
Tonesit (United States) The cargo ship ran aground on Ven, Sweden. She was refloated on 24 February.

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17th February 1921

The battleships USS New Mexico (foreground) and USS Pennsylvania (background) at the Panama Canal Zone.
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Ship Losses:

Delmira (United Kingdom) The tanker caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida, United States and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by J. E. O'Neil ( United States).[54] Delmira was towed in to Key West, Florida by Victory ( United States).

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18th February 1921

Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) inspecting Honourable Artillery Company Guard of Honour.
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19th February 1921

France and Poland sign a political alliance to coordinate economic and foreign policies. A secret defensive military alliance aimed at possible threats from Germany and Soviet Russia will also be signed on the 21st. Polish marshal Piłsudski at Élysée Palace, Paris.
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Ship Losses:

Fernando (Portugal) The barquentine was driven ashore and sank at Madeira.
Ioanna (Greece) The cargo ship was sunk by barratry off Cape Tiñoso, Spain

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20th February 1921

Generals Fayolle, Franchet d'Esperey and Lyautey are appointed Marshals of France.
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21st February 1921

Ship Losses:

Miss Williams (United Kingdom) The schooner foundered in the Irish Sea 3.5 nautical miles (6.5 km) off Curracloe, County Wexford.
USS Woolsey (United States Navy) The Wickes-class destroyer sank after colliding with the steamer Steel Inventor ( United States) in the Pacific Ocean off Panama City, Panama. Survivors were rescued by the destroyer USS Aaron Ward ( United States Navy).

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22nd February 1921

Ceremony at the base of the Washington Memorial on Presidents Day.
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Eton boys firemen demonstrating a life net to catch a jumper. The jumper is Charles Duncombe, 3rd Earl of Feversham.
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Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the Khagan of Mongolia by forces led by Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, an anticommunist Russian general. Bogd Kahn was deposed in 1919 when Chinese troops occupied Mongolia.
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23rd February 1921

A luncheon for U.S. General Staff members at the Army and Navy Club, Washington, D.C.
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Tibetan soldiers on parade in the capital Lhasa.
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24th February 1921

First Lieutenant William DeVoe Coney completes the first transcontinental flight across the United States with only one fuel stop, with the journey taking 22.5 hours.
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Ship Losses:

Minnie J. Smith (United Kingdom) The schooner sank off Wabana, Dominion of Newfoundland.
San Pasqual (United States) The cargo ship ran aground off Port Eads, Louisiana. She was refloated on 28 February.

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25th February 1921

The Russian Red Army captures the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, less than two weeks since the start of the invasion and less than three years since Georgia’s independence from Russia. Red Army troops in Tbilisi.
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26th February 1921

American destroyer U.S.S. Woolsey is accidentally rammed and sunk by the merchant ship SS Steel Inventor. 17 sailors are killed.
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British soldiers search passengers at Fermoy Station, Ireland during the Irish War of Independence. IRA forces had ambushed British troops at Upton train station last week.
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Ship Losses:

Gregorios (Greece) The cargo ship foundered off Gibraltar. Her crew were rescued by Penmoroah ( United Kingdom).

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27th February 1921

London Conference, Lloyd George, Briand, Foch at Chequers.
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Ship Losses:

Suzanna (United Kingdom) The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean (46°50′N 7°00′W). Her crew were rescued by Archimedes ( United Kingdom).

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28th February 1921

The Kronstadt Rebellion begins, as mutinous Russian sailors revolt against the Bolsheviks. The rebels issue 15 demands, asking for freedom of speech and press as well as new elections.
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The Kronstadt rebellion is initiated by sailors of the Soviet Navy's Baltic Fleet.
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Ship Losses:

Huntspill (United Kingdom) The cargo ship sank at Southampton, Hampshire.

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1st March 1921

Protestors in Dublin demonstrate against the execution of IRA members.
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Welsh Guard soldiers fashioning leeks on their caps for St. David’s Day.
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2nd March 1921

U.S. Congressman William E. Mason calls Japan’s colonial control over Korea “the most reprehensible and cowardly of any nation in history.” Yesterday marked the 2nd anniversary of large-scale Korean independence demonstrations against Japan, known as the March 1st Movement.
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Anti-Bolshevik rebels capture Kronstadt fortress, located on an island west of Petrograd (St. Petersburg). The Bolsheviks hurriedly muster troops to retake the fortress before ice over the Gulf of Kronstadt melts in the spring, which would make an assault much more difficult.
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Ship Losses:

Charlot (France) The brigantine was destroyed by fire.

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3rd March 1921

Passenger ship SS Hong Moh runs aground in a storm off the coast of Swatow (Shantou, China) with the loss of around 900 lives.
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19-year-old Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan begins a tour of Europe. He will sail on the battleship IJN Katori.
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Ship Losses:

Anna Laura McKenney (United States) The schooner was wrecked at Puerto México. Veracruz, Mexico.
Appolonia Italy The cargo ship was wrecked at İnebolu, Turkey.[66]
Hong Moh (United Kingdom) The passenger ship struck the White Rocks off Lamock Island near Swatow, China and sank with the loss of about 1,000 lives. HMS Carlisle, HMS Foxglove (both Royal Navy) and Shansi (flag unknown) rescued 294 survivors between them.
Maria (Greece) The cargo ship caught fire and sank in the Mediterranean Sea off Phourni, Crete.
Megali Hellas (Greece) The cargo ship ran aground off Kum Kale, Turkey. She was refloated on 8 March.
Omega (United States) The barquentine departed Hobart, Tasmania, Australia for Lyttelton, New Zealand. No further trace; presumed foundered in the Pacific Ocean with the loss of all hands.
Tipperary (United Kingdom) The schooner was abandoned off Trepassey, Newfoundland.

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4th March 1921

The massive Caproni Ca.60 seaplane crashes on its second flight, destroying the plane. The pilot and flight engineers were unhurt.
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Ship Losses:

HMS Gloaming (Royal Navy) The Admiralty-type drifter was wrecked on the coast of England near The Lizard.

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5th March 1921

Brigadier General Hanway Robert Cumming is killed by IRA forces in an ambush at Clonbanin, County Cork. He is one of the highest-ranking British officers to be killed in the Irish War of Independence.
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Ship Losses:

Madimba (Belgium) The cargo ship collided with Italier ( Belgium) in the North Sea off the Ruytingen Lighthouse (51°19′N 2°06′E) and sank with the loss of all 43 crew.

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6th March 1921

The Petrograd Soviet meeting in Petrograd (St. Petersburg). The city is currently under martial law, as rebel troops have captured the island of Kronstadt a few miles west of the city.
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7th March 1921

Negotiations between Germany and Allies over the details of reparations payments ends with no agreement reached. German Foreign Minister Walter Simons and ambassador Friedrich Sthamer in London.
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Bolshevik forces launch its first counterattack against anti-Bolshevik rebels that took over the port city of Kronstadt, but the attack fails with heavy losses. Soviet artillery targeting the rebels.
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Auxiliaries of the Royal Irish Constabulary assassinate George Clancy, the Sinn Féin mayor of Limerick, and his predecessor Michael O’Callaghan. The funeral of George Clancy and Michael O’Callaghan.
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Ship Losses:

Swan (United Kingdom) The trawler was sunk in a collision with Edgemont ( United States) in the Atlantic Ocean at (49°26′N 11°14′W).

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8th March 1921

Eduardo Dato, the Prime Minister of Spain, is assassinated by Catalan anarchists while he was being driven from the parliament building.
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French and Belgian troops enter and occupy the German cities of Düsseldorf, Duisburg, and Ruhrort to exert pressure on Germany to resolve the diplomatic stalemate over the reparations agreement.
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Ship Losses:

Ernemore (United Kingdom) The cargo ship struck a submerged wreck at Constantinople, Turkey and was beached.
Mosken (Norway) The cargo liner was wrecked at Dragnes, north-west of Hadseløya, Norway.

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9th March 1921

The ocean liner RMS Windsor Castle is launched (she serves as a troopship in WWII and is sunk by a German aircraft in 1943)
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British tanks taking part in the Allied occupation of Düsseldorf.
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Ship Losses:

Wandby (United Kingdom) The 3,981-gross register ton cargo ship was wrecked in fog without loss of life just off Walker's Point in Kennebunkport, Maine. Her wreck settled in up to 20 feet (6.1 m) of water.

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10th March 1921

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is appointed the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The post was previously held by Franklin D. Roosevelt as well as Jr.’s father Theodore Roosevelt.
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Ship Losses:

Barbara Barr (United Kingdom) The schooner was abandoned in St. Mary's Bay, Newfoundland.

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11th March 1921

With the conquest of the Democratic Republic of Georgia imminent, the French Navy cruiser "Ernest Renan" transported Georgia's gold reserves and church reserves out of the port of Batumi, for shipment to the Georgian government-in-exile in France.
https://i.postimg.cc/g0PY6339/Armoured-cruiser-Ernest-Renan-LOC11005u-AA.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

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12th March 1921

Lenin with the delegates of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party.
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British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill opens the Cairo Conference to discuss the future of British policy in the Middle East, particularly in the former Ottoman territories of Iraq and Transjordan.
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Queen Mary is awarded an honorary degree from Oxford, the first time a woman receives one.
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Ship Losses:

Alverta T. (United States) The motor vessel capsized at New Orleans in heavy fog. Six drowned.
Douglas Adams (United Kingdom) The schooner departed Lisbon, Portugal for Twillingate, Newfoundland. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands.

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13th March 1921

Irish protestors demonstrating outside Mountjoy Prison, Dublin before the execution of six captured IRA members tomorrow.
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Ship Losses:

Leonita (Spain) The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean (36°24′N 7°30′W).

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14th March 1921

IRA members Patrick Moran, Thomas Whelan, Frank Flood, Patrick Doyle, Thomas Bryan, and Bernard Ryan (later known as the members of the “Forgotten Ten”) are executed in Dublin. Large crowds protest the executions outside of Mountjoy Prison.
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Ship Losses:

Fredville (United Kingdom) The coaster collided with Vincennes Bridge ( United States) in the North Sea and sank. Her crew were rescued.
Frieda E. (United Kingdom) The schooner caught fire and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean (33°44′N 63°26′W). Her crew were rescued by Hofuku Maru ( Japan).
Guillermo (Spain) The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Oporto, Portugal. Her crew were rescued by Niki ( Greece).

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15th March 1921

Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizier and Interior Minister of the Ottoman Empire who initiated the Armenian genocide, is assassinated in Berlin by Armenian revolutionary Soghomon Tehlirian.
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16th March 1921

Service is held for 1609 American war dead transported back to the U.S. from the battlefields of France. The coffins were carried by the transport “Somme” to Hoboken, New Jersey.
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17th March 1921

In the face of the Red Army invasion, Georgian government officials evacuate the country through Batumi and go into exile. Red Army officers in Batumi.
https://i.postimg.cc/N0kbnmW3/Ewrg6-WYWYAIK-Vo.png (https://postimages.org/)

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18th March 1921

Poland and Soviet Russia sign the Peace of Riga, ending the Soviet-Polish War on terms favorable to Poland. Russia will pay monetary compensation, and Belarus and Ukraine will be partitioned between Poland and Russia.
https://i.postimg.cc/yNCdYRtf/Eww-Oxbf-XIAAP-ib.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Zuzatzarte (Spain) The cargo ship was driven ashore near Bilbao and was wrecked.

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19th March 1921

One of the largest engagements of the Irish War of Independence occurs, as 1200 British troops attempt to encircle 100 soldiers of the IRA, led by Tom Barry (pictured), at Crossbarry, County Cork. British forces are instead ambushed, and the IRA escape with minimal casualties.
https://i.postimg.cc/MKvmTBgS/111.png (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/3JVCDRHD/222.png (https://postimages.org/)

Prussian police are deployed to restore order in Mansfeld, Hettstedt and Eisleben. The United Communist Party of Germany is therefore postponing an uprising that was already planned. The March Action in Central Germany begin.
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20th March 1921

British delegates of the Cairo Conference, including Winston Churchill, TE Laurence, and Gertrude Bell, in front of the sphinx and pyramids.
https://i.postimg.cc/dtQ3yZ2W/Ew69dmi-WEAoe-Wif.png (https://postimages.org/)

French tanks and soldiers ensuring order during the Upper Silesia Plebiscite.
https://i.postimg.cc/KYT82PbY/Ew6vr-Q4-XIAMJRf-L.png (https://postimages.org/)

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21st March 1921

Stern view of the battleship USS Colorado before her launch tomorrow/
https://i.postimg.cc/sX0QzPQM/Ex-AG-Jc-XAAIn3kz.png (https://postimages.org/)

IRA forces ambush a train carrying British soldiers at the Headford Junction railway in County Kerry, resulting in the deaths of 9 British soldiers, two IRA soldiers, and three civilians. British soldiers searching trains in County Kerry.
https://i.postimg.cc/YqFGcWpS/Ew-rea-GW8-AE-x-Zr.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

City of Colombo (United Kingdom) The ocean liner ran aground off Petite Passage, New Brunswick, Canada. She was subsequently declared a total loss.
Elizabeth Charlotte (United Kingdom) The three-masted schooner departed King's Lynn, Norfolk for the Tyne. No further trace, presumed foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.
Governor Brooke (United States) The schooner ran aground at Castillo and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by Ballington ( United Kingdom).

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22nd March 1921

"March action" attempted armed insurrection by the Communist Party of Germany in Halle and Mansfeld. (“March action”, communist insurrection in central Germany (Max Hoelz) - train attacks in Ammendorf and Hettstedt)
https://i.postimg.cc/3NhhB7X3/it-i-DWBRw-Z6-C1c0uev-LExwvafd-Rcx-W3op-At35f-B-MQ.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

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23rd March 1921

Alamitos oil well #1 begins drilling in Signal Hill, California (the well hits oil in June, turning the oil field into one of the most productive oil fields in the world.
https://i.postimg.cc/rsNzdHqs/Ex-LRs-Cq-U8-Ag-Vf1i.png (https://postimages.org/)

First day of the March Action, a Communist attempt at a general strike in Germany. Buildings are bombed and trains are derailed in central Germany, and the city hall in Hamburg is seized. Pictured are bombed buildings in Hettstedt.
https://i.postimg.cc/PrdCGdMw/zwyez3kytso61.jpg (https://postimg.cc/Z0Dbpt2b)

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24th March 1921

British airship R.33 conducting mooring test at Pulham air station.
https://i.postimg.cc/W3S4LKpm/Ex-Pj-O-WQAI-8-N4.png (https://postimages.org/)

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25th March 1921

First ship entering the newly opened Port of Tacoma.
https://i.postimg.cc/mD1kDp5f/Ex-VJHNt-W8-Agq-CWg.png (https://postimages.org/)

IRA volunteers training with Lewis machine guns outside of Dublin.
https://i.postimg.cc/B65WMx8P/Ex-UR5f-WEAEa-So-D.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

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26th March 1921

Winston Churchill meeting with Bishop MacInnes of Jerusalem on Mount Scopus in northeast Jerusalem.
https://i.postimg.cc/5tCpT26W/Exa-S3l-CWYAQZKh3.png (https://postimages.org/)

Karl, the last Emperor/King of Austria-Hungary, crosses the border into Hungary in an attempt to take back the throne.
https://i.postimg.cc/pTMkHMFh/Exa-S3l-CWYAQZKh3.png (https://postimages.org/)

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27th March 1921

Karl, the last Emperor/King of Austria-Hungary, meets with Regent Miklós Horthy (pictured) unannounced to make the case for the restoration of his throne. Horthy refuses, fearing Allied retribution.
https://i.postimg.cc/Mp1HPmHz/Exf-Alpl-W8-AAf-RG1.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Former Emperor Karl and Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary receiving Easter mass on the tracks. Karl entered Hungary yesterday in an attempt to retake the throne.
https://i.postimg.cc/QNPMjyWX/Exel-D0r-XMAEld0-H.png (https://postimages.org/)

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28th March 1921

Emir Abdullah bin Hussein meeting with British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill at the Government House, Jerusalem.
https://i.postimg.cc/6pYqMY6k/Exjg3-GEW8-AILgv-M.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Ituna (United Kingdom) The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Ionian Sea off Santa Maura, Greece.
Roberta Ray (United Kingdom) The schooner was set afire and abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean (43°14′N 48°11′W). Her crew were rescued by Triumph ( United Kingdom).

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29th March 1921

Steamer discharging cargo at Anchorage, Alaska.
https://i.postimg.cc/pXC5TVfD/the-salmon-was-a-tad-overcooked.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

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30th March 1921

The Cairo Conference to set British policy in the Middle East comes to a close. Abdullah bin Hussein will rule Transjordan and his brother Faisal will become King of Iraq.
https://i.postimg.cc/wjn6NsTN/Ext0-FPy-XMAIneae.png (https://postimages.org/)

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31st March 1921

The Australian Air Force is formed as an independent branch after it separates from the Australian Army.
https://i.postimg.cc/x1wXw8DY/444.png (https://postimages.org/)

HM Airship R33 moored to a 100ft high mooring mast at Pulham Airship Station.
https://i.postimg.cc/L5QXN6Bc/w17vx6w6kdq61.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Gaelic Prince (United Kingdom) The cargo ship came ashore at Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States.[89] She was refloated on 7 April.
Rontegui (Spain) The cargo ship sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean off San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa. She sank in the early hours of 1 April. Her crew were rescued by Laya ( Spanish Navy).
Zilla May (United States) The 70-gross register ton, 77.3-foot (23.6 m) fishing vessel was wrecked without loss of life near Strait Island (56°23′10″N 133°42′30″W) in Southeast Alaska. Her crew of 17 abandoned ship early on 1 April, and Zilla May sank about 20 minutes later. After spending 1 April on Strait Island, the crew rowed to Wrangell, Territory of Alaska, in three dories on 2 April.

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1st April 1921

Refugees and wounded soldiers from Kronstadt after their failed uprising against the Bolsheviks.
https://i.postimg.cc/x8m8L0Df/Ex2fex-XU4-AIV0-RW.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

The “March Action,” an attempted Communist uprising in Germany, is crushed by government police and troop action,
https://i.postimg.cc/1RVfkKgk/Ex2f-Io0-VEAIYwx3.png (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/BQWX41HX/Ex2f-Io0-VEAIYwx3.png (https://postimages.org/)

Turkish troops defeat Greek forces at the 2nd Battle of İnönü, halting the Greek advance into central Anatolia. Mustafa Kemal inspecting troops after the battle.
https://i.postimg.cc/sgsxZdnz/Ex2f-Io0-VEAIYwx3.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Governor (United States) The passenger ship collided with West Hartland ( United States) in the Pacific Ocean one and a quarter miles (2.0 km) south east of Point Wilson off Port Townsend, Washington, or Seattle, Washington and sank. All on board were rescued by West Hartland, or nine killed, survivors transferred.

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2nd April 1921

Motorcade for Albert Einstein to NYC City Hall, as he is greeted by large crowds.
https://i.postimg.cc/vBW3B352/Ex2h6n-LVg-AI4bml.png (https://postimages.org/)

The February Uprising in Armenia is crushed as Bolshevik forces recapture Yerevan. Simon Vratsian, head of the Armenian uprising, escapes into Persia.
https://i.postimg.cc/4yPPvyLz/Ex2h2gu-Uc-AENem-V.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Lewis H. Goward (United States) The schooner was caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean off the Rebecca Shoal Lighthouse and was a total loss.

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3rd April 1921

A large Orthodox procession for Easter outside of the Kremlin despite Bolshevik attempts to clamp down on religion.
https://i.postimg.cc/j2QMzkp9/Ex2h-IT8-VIAIf7u-K.png (https://postimg.cc/m1k34V2N)

Ship Losses:

Kating (Greece) The coaster struck a submerged object and sank in the North Sea 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) off the North Hinder Lightship ( Netherlands) and sank. Her crew were rescued.

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4th April 1921

"Miners Make Holiday While The Pits Are Idle" (Daily Mirror)
https://i.postimg.cc/Qt3fh8Q2/s482ivqax4r61.jpg (https://postimg.cc/67MrhN1c)

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5th April 1921

Greek officer poising in the ruins of Sardis in Anatolia during the Greco-Turkish War.
https://i.postimg.cc/HLyQZJg7/Ey-Fo-ZE4-UYAAx-Rp.png (https://postimages.org/)

Former Emperor/King Karl of Austria-Hungary gives up on his attempt to restore his throne in Hungary after failing to secure the support of Regent Miklós Horthy and facing the threat of military action from Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
https://i.postimg.cc/gJb3fYzt/Ey-Fo-ZE4-UYAAx-Rp.png (https://postimages.org/)

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6th April 1921

Charles de Gaulle, who recently returned to France after serving as a military instructor in Poland during the Polish-Soviet War, marries Yvonne Vendroux.
https://i.postimg.cc/ZRSjsmDT/Ey-Fop-QDVc-AE8le1.png (https://postimages.org/)

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7th April 1921

French Marshall Hubert Lyautey paying his respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
https://i.postimg.cc/6QhLmHjk/Ey-Vjzh-ZVEAM6-Q02.png (https://postimages.org/)

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8th April 1921

People observing the 1921 eclipse.
https://i.postimg.cc/5NRrWHX2/Ey-Vki-V4-VEAYTMBO.png (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/BQXhpqm9/Ey-Vki-V4-VEAYTMBO.png (https://postimages.org/)

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9th April 1921

Ship Losses:

Fenice (Peru) The cargo ship was wrecked on Lobos de Tierra Island.

Tommie G (United Kingdom) The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean (40°28′N 46°17′W). She was set afire by her crew, who were rescued by Waaldijk ( Netherlands).

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10th April 1921

Itō Toshiyoshi, Admiral and the first Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff, has passed away.
https://i.postimg.cc/BvhCcsq8/Eykl-Lbm-UUAADj0t.png (https://postimages.org/)

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11th April 1921

This shot of joking Black and Tans and Auxiliaries was taken outside the London and North Western Hotel, North Wall, Dublin as they surveyed the damage after an I.R.A. attack on their quarters.
https://i.postimg.cc/sxkcHKFW/qbk9dp-EO-7v-H9n-Si-LBv-Ved-B-g-Wp55f-SSzvp-Q5-Gq-Fg-QA.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

A Black and Tan inspecting bomb damage after an IRA attack.
https://i.postimg.cc/B6vMjXcj/Eykl4-Z9-UUAERVPv.png (https://postimages.org/)

Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, the former empress of Germany and queen of Prussia by marriage with Kaiser Wilhelm II, has passed away while in exile in the Netherlands.
https://i.postimg.cc/fLg5mDBB/Eyklx3i-U4-AAya-UO.png (https://postimg.cc/k6Kxd3rb)

Ship Losses:

Colonel Bowie or Col. Bowie (United States) The cargo ship sprung a leak in heavy weather and foundered in the Gulf of Mexico between Beaumont, Texas and Tampico, Mexico with the loss of nineteen, or seven, of her 22 crew.

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12th April 1921

President Warren G. Harding giving his first address to Congress, in which he insisted the US would not join the League of Nations.
https://i.postimg.cc/VkxbHc9Z/itm9eur12os61.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

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13th April 1921

The trial of István Friedrich, the former Prime Minister of Hungary, for attempting to murder one of his predecessors in office, István Tisza, began in Budapest.
https://i.postimg.cc/sDJzTCz3/1-QYe-Z2k-YFa-O3g-ZTNg-Xe2kb-Azvv-Z0o-FZI1-Rqc-Qw3-X6-Tw.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Huntley (United Kingdom) The schooner sank off Cape Spear, Newfoundland. Her crew survived. She later refloated due to her cargo of salt dissolving and was towed in to St. John's.
Johanne (Germany) The cargo ship collided with Edel ( Denmark) in the Skagerrak 6 nautical miles (11 km) south of Fredrikshavn, Nordjylland, Denmark and sank. Her crew were rescued.

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14th April 1921

British bluejackets are deployed to protect Admiralty property in anticipation of a possible workers strike at the Abertillery Collieries, South Wales.
https://i.postimg.cc/DfR4DkKX/Ey0-T9jn-Vo-AELMj-P.png (https://postimg.cc/RqQ06YhS)

Hungarian Prime Minister Pál Teleki resigns after the failed attempt by former King/Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary to retake the throne.
https://i.postimg.cc/c4YtG9s5/Ey0-T9jn-Vo-AELMj-P.png (https://postimages.org/)

Navy Chief Gunners’ Mate Robert Cox is awarded the Medal of Honor by President Harding for helping to save the battleship Missouri from exploding after a fire in 1904 that killed 33. Cox is at far left.
https://i.postimg.cc/xjNcLxbT/tkhrvd4io5t61.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Kamchatka (United States) During a voyage from Seattle, Washington, to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia carrying 436 tons of general trading cargo, the 552-ton motor ship was abandoned in the North Pacific Ocean 400 nautical miles (740 km; 460 mi) south of the Territory of Alaska′s Shumagin Islands at a position determined by dead reckoning as 51°57′N 154°53′W after an engine room fire went out of control. Her crew of 23 abandoned ship in a launch and a whaleboat and reached the Shumagin Islands safely 86 hours later. Kamchatka′s burned-out and dismasted hulk drifted far to the south, where it was last sighted on 23 May 1921

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15th April 1921

Transport and rail union leaders in Britain decide not to call a strike in support of miners. The day is called “Black Friday” by miners for the perceived betrayal by the union leaders.
https://i.postimg.cc/tTc1jRXQ/Ey0-VKz-KVo-AMvty4.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Poolena (United Kingdom) The coaster ran aground at Dunfanaghy, County Donegal. Her crew survived. She was refloated on 21 April.

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16th April 1921

Train carriage where the armistice was signed, ending fighting during the Great War.
https://i.postimg.cc/056HHNW0/Ez-DPJCn-Vo-AAz-HTj.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Eugenia (Greece) The cargo ship foundered off the Berlengas, Portugal.
Ningpo (United Kingdom) The cargo ship was driven ashore and sank at Chefoo, China.

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17th April 1921

Colonel T.E. Lawrence flying from Amman to Azrak.
https://i.postimg.cc/kM68h7Dx/111.png (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/tRK6K8V8/222.png (https://postimages.org/)

Bedouin and Circassian chiefs at Amman aerodrome in Transjordan. The Emirate of Transjordan was established last week as a protectorate of Britain.
https://i.postimg.cc/qvLCCRZd/111.png (https://postimages.org/)

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18th April 1921

Mounted guards of Abdullah, the Emir of the newly established Emirate of Transjordan.
https://i.postimg.cc/Wz6QwbbL/Ez-DP50c-VUAM2ysj.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Iron Monarch (United Kingdom) The cargo ship ran aground at Port Pirie, South Australia. She was refloated on 21 April.
Queenie R (United Kingdom) The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Bermuda. Her crew were rescued by British Marshall ( United Kingdom).

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19th April 1921

The funeral of former Kaiserin Augusta Victoria of Germany is held in Potsdam. The funeral is attended by 300,000 people, including many monarchist supporters.
https://i.postimg.cc/6p4VMF6j/Ez-Suoz-MVUAo-KKu-U.png (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/0NgYFZb8/Ez-Sup-Mc-Vg-As-Es-Kt.png (https://postimages.org/)

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20th April 1921

General Pershing meeting with blinded veterans of the Great War.
https://i.postimg.cc/wvrQLx20/Ez-Svci-JUc-AUw-XRy.png (https://postimages.org/)

A World War I hero is acquitted of murder in Ottawa when a jury finds war wounds and flashbacks affected his mental state. Filip Konowal, a recipient of the Victoria Cross, will go to a mental asylum.
https://i.postimg.cc/SxG588Md/v7wqzi774du61.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

S & C (United States) Still hauled out on the shore of the Taku River in the Territory of Alaska for the winter of 1920–1921 and with no one on board, the 8-gross register ton, 34.3-foot (10.5 m) motor vessel was destroyed when ice breaking up on the river during the spring thaw crushed her.

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21st April 1921

Ship Losses:

Tree Villa (United Kingdom) The coaster, which had struck a submerged object on 19 April, sank in the Bristol Channel 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) north east of Skokholm, Pembrokeshire. Her crew survived.

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22nd April 1921

King Constantine of Greece visiting wounded soldiers of the Greco-Turkish War.
https://i.postimg.cc/yY8tHdJb/Ezie0-Uv-Xo-AMcix-S.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

No. 307 (Soviet Navy) The K-class armored river gunboat was lost on this date.

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23rd April 1921

Ship Losses:

Annunziata (Italy) The schooner was driven onto rocks at Sliema, Malta and was wrecked. All six crew were rescued.
Elpis (Greece) The cargo ship foundered in the Mediterranean Sea 24 nautical miles (44 km) north east of Acre, Palestine.

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24th April 1921

French General Bailloud visiting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
https://i.postimg.cc/CxZcHCQD/Ezifr-4-WQAc-Qv-UE.png (https://postimages.org/)

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25th April 1921

ANZAC Day commemorations in Wellington, New Zealand.
https://i.postimg.cc/m2MP6H3v/Ezx-R8-YX0-AIVf-IP.png (https://postimages.org/)

Anzac Day procession following a brass band, Caboolture, Queensland.
https://i.postimg.cc/GmxHbn5z/QI7xsq-Pd0w-F-kc-Oqv-Eqe-Wcqqh-I2-Oej-9t-TZn8468u-Ac.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Police in Dublin show photographers bombs captured from the IRA
https://i.postimg.cc/y8HDq8vk/e1m1rbp05cv61.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

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26th April 1921

President Harding meeting with Albert Einstein and his wife.
https://i.postimg.cc/3ryCCh9d/oh-the-pain.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

U.S. adventurer Merian Cooper reaches safety in Riga, Latvia, after escaping a Soviet prison where he had been held for 9 months. Cooper, a volunteer flying for Poland, had been shot down and captured during that country's war with Russia. In 1933, he made the movie "King Kong."
https://i.postimg.cc/GmRFCyRy/oh-the-pain.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

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27th April 1921

Lord Edmund Talbot becomes the (last) Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, becoming the first Roman Catholic to hold the post since the 17th century.
https://i.postimg.cc/YS4XjMQ1/Ezx-zi-Xs-AAx-Tf-A.png (https://postimages.org/)

The Reparations Commission, established under the treaty of Versailles, decrees that Germany must pay a total of £6.6 billion ($33 billion) in 42 annual instalments. The German Reichstag (parliament) accepts an Allied ultimatum for the payment of reparations (11 May).

Avocourt, 1918, one of the many destroyed French villages where reconstruction would be funded by reparations.
https://i.postimg.cc/tgLBxwz8/A-view-of-the-ruins-of-Avocourt-situated-just-behind-the-American-trenches-before-the-Allied-drive.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Arnus (Spain) The cargo ship sprang a leak and foundered whilst on a voyage from Viveiro, Spain, to Rotterdam, Netherlands. Twenty-one of her 33 crew were rescued.

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28th April 1921

Giant Sturgeon at the Mac Fisheries shop in London.
https://i.postimg.cc/Hn2FDMcp/E0-BPx-C8-XMAQC4-Gv.png (https://postimages.org/)

Police seize a barrel of wine from a store in New York to enforce Prohibition.
https://i.postimg.cc/qBXPCPm9/Ezx-6o-PXEAAk-S5-I.png (https://postimages.org/)

At Paris, M. Briand, departing for London, tells newspapermen France will occupy the Ruhr region to help the German people to get rid of reactionaries.
https://i.postimg.cc/RZ8yB4Fn/kitty-drill-sergeant.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Bona H (United Kingdom) The schooner was destroyed by fire off Havana, Cuba.

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29th April 1921

Worker with a 16-inch barbette carriage at the Watertown Arsenal, Massachusetts.
https://i.postimg.cc/nVmLLXVV/E0-BQPY7-XMAM6zfw.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Conscripted French men of the class of 1921 drinking before departure.
https://i.postimg.cc/3JHx03WX/E0-BQDv-SXEAc-ZBLb.png (https://postimages.org/)

The train carriage where the armistice of the First World War was signed, exhibited in the courtyard of Les Invalides, Paris.
https://i.postimg.cc/9fSWmhvq/E0-BQPY7-XMAM6zfw.jpg (https://postimg.cc/KKPXfdcZ)
https://i.postimg.cc/MTQzXLS3/SEplAr4.jpg (https://postimg.cc/cg0pbX6f)

Ship Losses:

Bara Bi (Spain) The passenger ship sprang a leak and foundered in the Atlantic Ocean (approximately 48°N 5°W). All on board were rescued by Helena ( Netherlands).
Mormugao (Portugal) The passenger ship ran aground on the south of Block Island, Rhode Island, United States. Her passengers were taken off. She was refloated on 2 May.
Spathari (United Kingdom) The cargo ship was sunk by barratry in the Atlantic Ocean off Ericeira, Portugal. Her crew were rescued.

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30th April 1921

British soldiers searching a horse-drawn wagon in Ireland.
https://i.postimg.cc/FHtkHBBY/E0-BQUg-JWEAIj-LOC.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

E. A. Sabean (United Kingdom) The schooner sprang a leak and sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Pensacola, Florida. Her crew were rescued.
Gloria (France) The ship foundered in the Mediterranean Sea off Soller, Majorca, Spain. All 28 crew were rescued.

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1st May 1921

The Jaffa Riots begin in the British Mandate of Palestine when a dispute between the Jewish Communist Party and another Jewish socialist party devolves into a general disturbance, triggering an Arab attack against Jewish residents.
https://i.postimg.cc/ZRT5jZpX/E0-P618q-WEAYz-XQ.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Lysglimt (Denmark) The schooner caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean (27°55′N 41°01′W). She was abandoned on 4 May and burnt out. Her crew were rescued by Vittorio Veneto ( United Kingdom).

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2nd May 1921

The Third Silesian Uprising begins as Polish forces revolt against Germany as Allied disagreements remain unresolved on the results of the Upper Silesia Plebiscite. Polish insurgents in Silesia.
https://i.postimg.cc/PfmqpTFW/E0-P6-DRDWQAcd-R8w.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Jewish writer Yosef Haim Brenner is killed during the Jaffa Riots.
https://i.postimg.cc/mkNZ0yFX/E0-P6-Opp-XMAg-CNou.png (https://postimages.org/)

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3rd May 1921

Northern Ireland is created as the Fourth Home Rule Bill comes into effect, partitioning Ireland into two. Irish protestors demonstrating against the partition on Downing Street.
https://i.postimg.cc/nhWfp4Wh/E0-P6c31-XEAM1h-KK.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Tokuyo Maru (Japan) The passenger ship caught fire and sank in the Pacific Ocean. USAT Buford ( United States Army) rescued 65 people.

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4th May 1921

Conscripted French soldiers of the class of 1921 preparing to deploy as Allied governments threaten to occupy the Ruhr region of Germany for reparation payments.
https://i.postimg.cc/mkwTzTRZ/E0g-R5i-WXo-AEFBt-F.png (https://postimages.org/)

Chancellor Constantin Fehrenbach of Germany and his cabinet resigned upon news that an ultimatum would be sent from the Allies to agree to binding reparations payments.
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Throngs gather outside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris hoping to attend the mass for Napoleon Bonaparte, which marks the 100th anniversary of his death on May 5, 1821. More than 60 generals are present.
https://i.postimg.cc/764vgjK5/9-UEch5jvcv-A0-PDXk-UNfinf1-QCA3te-T4uro-YJ2t-VVulg.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Mary Eleanor (United Kingdom) The cargo ship foundered in the Irish Sea. Her crew survived.

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5th May 1921

The Supreme Council at London delivers to Dr. Sthamer, Berlin envoy, an ultimatum requiring German trial of war culprits, disarmament, and reparation payments of 132,000,000,000 gold marks before May 12 on penalty of seizure of the entire Ruhr industrial region.

Commemoration of the centenary of Napoleon’s death are held in Paris.
https://i.postimg.cc/NGphHJm0/E0g-Tve-GWUAAd-Lu7.png (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/3JRsCXFF/E0g-Tve-JWYAUCo8v.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Admiral Keyes (United Kingdom) The auxiliary schooner sprang a leak in the North Sea and was beached off Hartlepool, County Durham She was refloated on 6 May.

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6th May 1921

New York policemen turn into human traffic lights under a new plan by Traffic Commissioner John Harriss to relieve congestion and improve road safety. Ten patrolmen are outfitted with the lights on and around Fifth Avenue.
https://i.postimg.cc/j5KT9t16/fqzvjozofix61.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Sao Paulo (Brazil) The cargo ship sank at Rio de Janeiro.

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7th May 1921

French politician Guist'hau reviews marines at Clignancourt barracks.
https://i.postimg.cc/SRHNSrpL/E0w-Jw-W-XEAIokso.png (https://postimages.org/)

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8th May 1921

Celebrations of Joan the Arc on the anniversary of the Battle of Orleans.
https://i.postimg.cc/RhxLCWw8/E0w-KN7y-XMAAYYt5.png (https://postimages.org/)
https://i.postimg.cc/8cdB7THC/E0w-KOf-WXo-AEWb2x.png (https://postimages.org/)
https://i.postimg.cc/jSDw9s7J/E0w-KOMb-WYAYo-Cp9.png (https://postimages.org/)

Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan arrives in Portsmouth, England as he begins his tour of Europe.
https://i.postimg.cc/MpgMJh73/E0w-J5xb-Xs-AITXa-D.png (https://postimages.org/)

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9th May 1921

USS Langley being converted into the U.S. Navy’s first aircraft carrier at the Norfolk Navy Yard.
https://i.postimg.cc/cJ8ZCmjH/E0w-Kpbs-WQAkx-WV1.png (https://postimages.org/)

Crown Prince Hirohito with King George V traveling to Buckingham Palace.
https://i.postimg.cc/4ywRqFK8/E0w-Kpbs-WQAkx-WV1.png (https://postimages.org/)

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10th May 1921

Joseph Wirth becomes the new Chancellor of Germany as the previous cabinet resigned due to threats of new Allied sanctions and the start of the Third Silesian Uprising.
https://i.postimg.cc/MKLk5nrC/leaving-the-fruit-alone-is-never-an-option.png (https://postimages.org/)

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11th May 1921

Germany, in a note to the Allies, accepts unconditionally the reparation terms set forth in the ultimatum of May 5
https://i.postimg.cc/KjyKCThq/m6epel7mtgy61.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Docks destroyed by the spring breakup of ice at Nenana, Alaska.
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12th May 1921

French Marshal Franchet d’Esperey decorates General Lebocq at a ceremony.
https://i.postimg.cc/VNbDx4sB/E0-rx4-YXIAECXTK.png (https://postimages.org/)

Floating dock delivered by Germany to Britain as part of reparations.
https://i.postimg.cc/vBF3b9cR/E0-rr1c-WUAIg-Ayn.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Stad Schiedam (Netherlands) The cargo ship ran aground at Marstenen Bo, Norway, and was beached.

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13th May 1921

Sergeant Stubby, the unofficial mascot of the U.S. 102nd Infantry Regiment and the most decorated war dog of the Great War, at an animal’s parade in Washington D.C.
https://i.postimg.cc/Vk3pswB2/E1-OQNNh-WEAMU0sq.png (https://postimages.org/)

Transport of a 24-ton door for the Hibernia Bank and Trust’s vault in New Orleans.
https://i.postimg.cc/GpGNHfXt/E1-OP5-ORWUAEI9-L1.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Miztec (United States) The barge foundered in Lake Superior 10 nautical miles (19 km) off Vermillion Point, Michigan, with the loss of all seven crew.

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14th May 1921

Liner Aquitania leaving the port of Southampton.
https://i.postimg.cc/mrNNFkrH/E1-OQw-Xp-X0-AMDoc-E.png (https://postimages.org/)

Edward, Prince of Wales, kicking a football before the match between the Tottenham Hotspur and Fulham at Sandhurst College.
https://i.postimg.cc/W35GXygp/E1-OQw-Xp-X0-AMDoc-E.png (https://postimages.org/)

Karatara (United Kingdom) The coaster caught fire 20 nautical miles (37 km) off Cape Town, South Africa and was abandoned. All passengers and crew were rescued. Karatara was subsequently towed into Cape Town extensively damaged.
Wollongbar (United Kingdom )The cargo ship was wrecked at Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia.

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15th May 1921

The 1921 Italian general elections take place, with votes split between the Socialist Party (24.7%), the Christian-democratic People’s Party (20.4%) and the National Blocs (19.1%). Benito Mussolini, leading the Italian Fasces of Combat, is elected for the first time.
https://i.postimg.cc/DwBCBGMn/E1-ORCa6-Xo-AQo-Pf-W.png (https://postimages.org/)

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16th May 1921

Crown Prince Hirohito reviewing British troops at Kenley Airfield during his tour of Europe.
https://i.postimg.cc/sxm9RsfF/E1d-Pmhg-WYAQTP89.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

City of Pascagoula (Italy) The schooner caught fire at Genoa and was scuttled.

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17th May 1921

Soldiers guarding three huge casks of tobacco after they were retrieved from River Liffey, Ireland.
https://i.postimg.cc/MKKvGZcv/E1d-P8i-QXIAAp-KSN.png (https://postimages.org/)

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18th May 1921

The 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition sets out from India to search for possible routes for ascending the mountain.
https://i.postimg.cc/hPhfkHSk/118561760-uk-card-with-vax-2doses-18may-nc.png (https://postimages.org/)

Franklin Knight Lane, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior who presided over the creation of the National Park Service, has passed away.
https://i.postimg.cc/fR9kLmS5/118561760-uk-card-with-vax-2doses-18may-nc.png (https://postimages.org/)

Albert Grass, grandson of a Sioux chief, is buried with Army honors in Cannon Ball, N.D., as 100 fellow tribesmen chant in mourning. The soldier, 21, was killed in France in 1918, the first Sioux casualty of WWI
https://i.postimg.cc/GpntstkR/muda-Trzebiatowska-Marta-9255475764.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

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19th May 1921

Edward Douglass White, the Chief Justice of the U.S., dies in office. He sided with the majority in Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld the legality of segregation. He also upheld the legality of conscription during the Great War.
https://i.postimg.cc/jjxf5TBZ/E1tt-O8-YXMAI-6ip.png (https://postimages.org/)

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20th May 1921

Royal Navy cruiser HMS Calcutta docked near the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
https://i.postimg.cc/Kz89S614/E1tu-Yt-OXIAAuyj-G.png (https://postimages.org/)

"U.S. Will Never Enter League, Harvey Tells Britain; France Won't Agree Not to Seize Ruhr"
https://i.postimg.cc/1z9BwkcM/hlo3kgw1x8071.jpg (https://postimg.cc/FYB0Qn6J)

Ship Losses:

Manuel Carsi (Spain) The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank in the Mediterranean Sea 20 nautical miles (37 km) off Cape Vilano, Algeria. Her crew were rescued.

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21st May 1921

Polish militias in Upper Silesia as they revolt against German rule.
https://i.postimg.cc/5tR5NCzJ/E1tud-Yo-XEAEk-NDn.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

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22nd May 1921

The Battle of Annaberg begins during the Third Silesian Civil War.
https://i.postimg.cc/66FYGXxd/nkhdaseeeo071.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

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23rd May 1921

USS Granite State (formerly USS New Hampshire), a 74-gun ship of the line which served as a storeship during the American Civil War, suffers a fire and sinks.
https://i.postimg.cc/W1tYL0CT/E2-Bow8-YWQAE5zk-L.png (https://postimages.org/)

The Leipzig War Crimes Trials begin in Germany as part of the Versailles Treaty, starting with the trial of Sergeant Karl Heynen, who is accused of mistreating Allied POWs. British witnesses at Leipzig.
https://i.postimg.cc/TwvtDFw3/E2-Bow8-YWQAE5zk-L.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

USS Granite State (United States Navy) The stores ship, a former ship of the line, caught fire and sank in the Hudson River. She was refloated in July 1922.

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24th May 1921

The 1921 Irish elections are held. In Southern Ireland, Sinn Féin led by Éamon de Valera takes 124 out of 130 seats unopposed. In Northern Ireland, the Ulster Unionist Party led by James Craig wins 40 out of 52 seats.
https://i.postimg.cc/qq13NqBs/E2-Bp-EV9-XMAIZbn-T.png (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/T20m77jK/E2-Bp-Ej4-WEAYjn3t.png (https://postimages.org/)

President Harding giving a speech at the Port of Hoboken for a memorial of returned American war dead from Europe.
https://i.postimg.cc/jd9DmGDS/E2-Bpg-YHXo-Ac-Gok-H.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Crown Prince Hirohito being received by French troops at the Élysée Palace, France during his tour of Europe.
https://i.postimg.cc/ZK9R8Vwt/E2-Bo7o-ZWEAUIFko.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Atua (United Kingdom) The cargo ship struck rocks and was beached at Naitonitoni, Fiji. She was refloated on 6 June.

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25th May 1921

The IRA attacks and burns the Custom House in Dublin, which serves as the HQ of the Local Government Board for Ireland. While the attack is a propaganda success, the IRA suffers 5 dead and 70-80 captured.
https://i.postimg.cc/1tZL5zVW/118665517-uk-card-with-vax-2doses-25may-nc.png (https://postimages.org/)

Captured IRA members after the attack against the Custom House in Dublin.
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26th May 1921

Burned out remains of the Custom House in Dublin after the IRA attack yesterday.
https://i.postimg.cc/JntfQwrb/E2-Lopvr-X0-AMynj-F.png (https://postimages.org/)

Greek troops crossing the River Gallus of Turkey during the Greco-Turkish War.
https://i.postimg.cc/63SDjHqF/E2-Lopvr-X0-AMynj-F.png (https://postimages.org/)

Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I ace, crashes his plane during a foggy night landing in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Crawling out from the wreckage, Eddie merely smiled and said: "It's nothing."
https://i.postimg.cc/sfGFQR0z/sv5gm88meh171.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Esperanto (United States) The schooner struck a submerged wreck in the Atlantic Ocean off Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada and foundered.

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27th May 1921

Suspected IRA members being interrogated by the Royal Irish Constabulary at the Wicklow Hills.
https://i.postimg.cc/PrGHwLMX/118698230-uk-card-with-vax-2doses-27may-nc.png (https://postimages.org/)

The Provisional Priamurye Government is established in eastern Siberia by remnant White forces after an anti-Bolshevik coup takes place in Vladivostok. Leaders of the government: N.D. Merkulov, G.K. Stark, and S.D. Merkulov.
https://i.postimg.cc/L6zpBHyz/E2-Lozuq-X0-AYGj-CV.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Dannedaike (United States) The cargo ship sank at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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28th May 1921

Ship Losses:

Antiope (United Kingdom) The tanker caught fire at Sourabaya, Netherlands East Indies, and was a total loss. Her crew were rescued.
William Finglay (United Kingdom) The cargo ship sank in the North Sea 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) south east of Tod Point, Yorkshire, UK.

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29th May 1921

Italian and French officials visiting the military cemetery at Bligny, which hosts the graves of Italian volunteers who fought for France during the Great War.
https://i.postimg.cc/hv3xcWFP/E2ay-FWn-XMAkc-G7-D.png (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/tRrFhP1Q/E2ay-Fo3-XEAAg4-Z3.png (https://postimages.org/)

Armed Polish insurgents with a machine gun in Upper Silesia.
https://i.postimg.cc/DyXm8bLc/E2ay-FWn-XMAkc-G7-D.png (https://postimages.org/)

Germans demonstrate in Berlin in support of retaining Upper Silesia, which is currently contested between Germany and Poland.
https://i.postimg.cc/fRQyXTvQ/E2ax2-Vu-WQAMi-HFR.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

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30th May 1921

Memorial Day is commemorated in the United States. Naval veterans from the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the Great War parade in Detroit.
https://i.postimg.cc/7Yzkj8SX/E2ayrw-GWQAMo-TP9.png (https://postimages.org/)

Refugees fleeing Upper Silesia as Polish forces revolt against German rule.
https://i.postimg.cc/FHgQsyWL/E2ay-LHc-WEAQ4n-YI.png (https://postimages.org/)

France, May 30, 1921, Prince Hirohito of Japan visiting France, The prince, disembarking in Le Havre, is saluted, before his departure for Paris, by the French commanding officer of the honour detachment.
https://i.postimg.cc/4dnC5rJ6/bvdnb0uk88271.jpg (https://postimg.cc/47CF42Hy)

Ship Losses:

Ise Maru (Japan) The cargo ship was wrecked at Nossaenpu, Hokkaidō.

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31st May 1921

Scene of a D.H.4 biplane that crashed landed at High River, Alberta.
https://i.postimg.cc/MKKjj36m/E2rbu-HRXw-AEPe3-B.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Riojun Maru (Japan) The cargo ship ran aground on a reef in the Gaspar Straits and was wrecked.

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1st June 1921

Ship Losses:

Laura A. Barnes (United States) The four-masted schooner was wrecked on Bod's Island, Virginia.

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2nd June 1921

The IRA led by Michael Kilroy ambush a patrol of the Royal Irish Constabulary and Black and Tans at Carrowkennedy, Ireland. For no IRA losses, 8 British forces are killed and 16 are captured.
https://i.postimg.cc/sDrT8yTV/E20-Xs-W8-X0-AIP9-FJ.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan visiting the French Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris.
https://i.postimg.cc/CLscpt2b/E20-Xn3z-X0-AIzb1.png (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/rp3J9Ld2/E20-Xo-Gc-WYAQrm80.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Mount Rainier (United States) The four-masted schooner was destroyed by fire at Santa Fe, Argentina.

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3rd June 1921

Ship Losses:

Royetsu Maru No.2 (Japan) The cargo ship foundered 33 nautical miles (61 km)) off Wakamatsu. Her crew were rescued.

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4th June 1921

Ship Losses:

Burma Maru (Japan) The cargo ship arrived at Gibraltar on fire. She was beached, but was refloated on 7 June.
Matilde (Italy) The cargo ship caught fire in the Bosporus and was beached at Büyükdere, Koçarlı, Turkey.

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5th June 1921

17-year-old Eliasz Gitman arrives in New York from Poland. 20 years later, he became father to a certain Bernie Sanders.

American aviator Laura Bromwell who held the women’s loop-the-loop record (87 loops in 1 hour and 15 minutes) is killed in an aviation accident at the age of 24
https://i.postimg.cc/rFvvzSpJ/E3-An7qj-XIAIElv-Z.png (https://postimages.org/)

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6th June 1921

French General Humbert commemorating a monument for fallen soldiers of the French 53rd Division.
https://i.postimg.cc/dQjdNhnn/E3-Ao-Bd-JWEAI7-Yto.png (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/ZKYNGJMm/E3-Ao-CNe-XIAINy-Ps.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Ramon Mumbru (Spain) The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank in the Mediterranean Sea off Cavalaire-sur-Mer, Var, France.

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7th June 1921

Former German submarine UC-97 is sunk in Lake Michigan by the USS Wilmette as target practice.
https://i.postimg.cc/QCn5pkBf/E3-Ouf-Ww-WQAgl-AHG.png (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/7hcGCHcc/E3-Oug4-KWYAE-GLu.png (https://postimages.org/)

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, inspecting troops outside of City Hall, Belfast during the opening of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.
https://i.postimg.cc/J7dBYxnq/E3-Ouf-Ww-WQAgl-AHG.png (https://postimages.org/)

The first session of the Parliament of Northern Ireland is held. 40 of the 52 seats are filled by Unionists, while the remaining Sinn Fein and Irish nationalist seats are empty as they refuse the oath of loyalty to the crown.
https://i.postimg.cc/Qx9K27Kr/E3-Ouf-Ww-WQAgl-AHG.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

U-151 (French Navy) The Type U 151 submarine was sunk as a target in the English Channel off Cherbourg, Manche.
USS UC-97 (United States) The Type UC III submarine was sunk as a target in Lake Michigan east of Highland Park, Illinois, at (41°10′N 87°20′W) by USS Wilmette ( United States Navy).

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8th June 1921

Roderick Maclean, a Scotsman who attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria in 1882, has passed away at the Broadmoor Asylum. Maclean purportedly was angered when his poetry to the Queen only received a curt reply.
https://i.postimg.cc/P5m8QD8t/E3-Ouv-ZXo-AUN-v-Q.png (https://postimages.org/)

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9th June 1921

French torpedo boats on the Seine River with the Eiffel Tower in the background.
https://i.postimg.cc/MZB6d6f9/E3-ZT7-Oa-Xo-Akoz-O8.png (https://postimg.cc/SjybKpr9)

Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan visits Le Bourget airport during his state visit of France.

https://i.postimg.cc/0NrxmPqd/E3-ZT7-Oa-Xo-Akoz-O8.png (https://postimages.org/)
https://i.postimg.cc/YCdMhjTC/E3-Ov-NHy-WQAA0-Nc-Y.png (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/CKt0sXhy/E3-ZT7-Oa-Xo-Akoz-O8.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

North Shore (United Kingdom) The cargo ship caught fire at Quebec City, Canada and was beached.

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10th June 1921

British Army troops with an armoured car clearing roads during the Irish War of Independence.
https://i.postimg.cc/s2v40p0W/E3e-Jnv-YXIAAe37x.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark (later Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh) is born in Corfu, Greece to Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg. Princess Alice with Prince Philip.
https://i.postimg.cc/g2wxCNmG/E3e-Jj-POXIAQ-n3i.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Bouboulina (Greece) The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Gulf of Smyrna off Uzunada, Turkey with the loss of 22 of her 30 crew. Two of the survivors were rescued by Lemnos ( Greece Navy).
Laretana (Spain) The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal.
Ville d'Algée (France) The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank at Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône.
Woodbine (United Kingdom) The cargo ship was driven ashore and sank at Bruneval, Seine-Inférieure, France.

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11th June 1921

MB-2 bombers and an airship at Langley Field, Virginia.
https://i.postimg.cc/zXCvCw40/E3e-J8-M6-XMAImvfo.png (https://postimages.org/)

"General Gouraud with Lord Allenby, Egypt. A serious railway accident in Fécamp. The new Irish Parliament in Belfast. The largest French mailboat the "Paris" will cross the Atlantic"
https://i.postimg.cc/8kWzGBkN/q8oq8i91vl471.jpg (https://postimg.cc/RqSBQtnD)

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12th June 1921

A Renault FT-17 tank parades in front of spectators during a gymnastics festival at Tuileries Palace, Paris.
https://i.postimg.cc/rF0j12RC/E3e-KA5-GX0-AYUgx-D.png (https://postimages.org/)

British forces deployed in Upper Silesia to contain fighting between Polish and German forces.
https://i.postimg.cc/zGwn7zzW/E3e-J957-XIAk2-QZA.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

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13th June 1921

The cargo steamer SS Canastota departs Sydney bound for Wellington, New Zealand; however, the ship disappears with its 49 crew. It is likely its large cargo of “benzine” (petrol or gasoline) caught fire and exploded.
https://i.postimg.cc/C5BD92Xp/E3t-vc3-Xo-AIae-X1.png (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/SKS9mR3r/E3t-tpx-WEAsig-MB.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Canastota (United Kingdom) The cargo ship departed Sydney, New South Wales, Australia for Wellington, New Zealand. Presumed foundered in the Pacific Ocean with the loss of all hands. Fire-damaged wreckage from the ship washed up on Lord Howe Island, New South Wales on 10 August.

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14th June 1921

Ship Losses:

Matilde (Italy) The cargo ship caught fire in the Bosporus and was beached at Büyükdere, Koçarlı, Turkey.

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15th June 1921

The largest French ocean liner SS Paris begins her maiden voyage from Le Havre to Plymouth, England and then to New York.
https://i.postimg.cc/bY280nmG/E3t-a-Oh-Xw-AQv1-KQ.png (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/JzRLW2MJ/E3t-ai-IXw-AAn-Lw-N.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan arrives in the Netherlands and is greeted by Queen Wilhelmina and other members of the Dutch royalty.
https://i.postimg.cc/3RssfLtk/E3t-a-Oh-Xw-AQv1-KQ.png (https://postimages.org/)

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16th June 1921

“Bronco Bill” Walters, an outlaw during the closing days of the Old West known for the legend of his “lost treasure” hidden somewhere in Solomon, Arizona, is killed when he falls off from a windmill.
https://i.postimg.cc/KvSJY0J8/E38r-Umw-XIAkq-Dwy.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Cid Campeador (Spain) The cargo ship caught fire at Bilbao and was beached. She was declared a total loss.
Olympia (Greece) The cargo ship ran aground on the Formigas Rocks, Azores, Portugal and was wrecked. Her crew survived.

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17th June 1921

Pancho Villa Canutillóban.
https://i.postimg.cc/vBJrb1TD/u7u-Htn-NGM7-FM01-R-R0-OO-OBT7-S-xz-Kg-Ner-POj5-RVs.png (https://postimages.org/)

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18th June 1921

Madison Square Garden in NYC is transformed into an indoor swimming pool for the public for the summer.
https://i.postimg.cc/GtBDngWW/E38r5-Ay-WEAQc-D8v.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

The first international polo match since the Great War starts between the English and American team at Hurlingham.
https://i.postimg.cc/cC8vbgYZ/E38rzv-VWUAAXve9.jpg (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/5jdXd4qz/E38r0-D5-X0-Ag8mdy.png (https://postimages.org/)

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19th June 1921

Members of Parliament visit the Airship R36 at Pulham, England.
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Nabeshima Naohiro, the last Daimyo of Saga Domain who led troops in support of Japan’s Meiji Restoration, has passed away.
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20th June 1921

Ship Losses:

Gallia (United Kingdom) The cargo ship sank at Calcutta, India.

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21st June 1921

The former German submarine U-117 is sunk by U.S. Navy Felixstow F5L flying boats as a demonstration and target practice.
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The Bristol 10-seater, designed for passenger transport, makes its first flight (only three of the planes are built)
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Johannes Schober, the Chief of Police of Vienna (and later founding president of Interpol), becomes the new Chancellor of Austria.
https://i.postimg.cc/cJwmdnZ9/E4-NJied-Xo-AMTc-S7.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

USS G-1 (United States Navy) The decommissioned G-class submarine was sunk as a target in 100 feet (30 m) of water in the East Passage of Narragansett Bay, 625 yards (572 m) bearing 42 degrees true from Taylor Point, Jamestown, Rhode Island, at 41°30.889′N 071°21.246′W by eight depth charges dropped by the minesweeper USS Grebe ( United States Navy).
Islandia (United Kingdom) The cargo ship sank at Piraeus, Greece.[141] Ship was refloated on 27 June.

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22nd June 1921

In his speech, King George hopes, “the Irish people, north and south, under one Parliament or two, as those Parliaments may themselves decide, shall work together in common love for Ireland upon the sure foundation of mutual justice and respect.”
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King George V opens the new Parliament of Northern Ireland in Belfast. Scenes of the King’s procession in the city.
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Ship Losses:

USS U-117 (United States Navy) The Type UE II submarine was bombed and sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean 50 nautical miles (93 km) east of the Cape Charles Lightship (Ensign of the United States Coast Guard (1915–1953).png United States Coast Guard) by three Felixstowe F5L aircraft of the United States Navy.

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23rd June 1921

U.S. Battleships Pennsylvania, Florida, North Dakota, and Delaware sailing in formation.
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Maginot, Poincaré, and Nivelle giving speeches at the site of the Battle of Verdun.
https://i.postimg.cc/j2ySCMWn/E4ceo-C-WQAMA7s7.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Monte Bianco (Italy) The vessel caught fire in the Pacific Ocean (29°S 151°W) and was abandoned.

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24th June 1921

The U.S. Navy airship R-38, the world’s largest airship originally built for the British Royal Navy, makes its maiden voyage at Cardington, England.
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400 vehicles of the 11th Field Artillery Brigade at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii are massed in formation. The caption reads “No motor failed and formation remained intact, a record that will rarely be equaled and never surpassed”
https://i.postimg.cc/44QtNDys/E4cft64-VEAk2d6-A.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Helen Mathers (United Kingdom) The schooner came ashore at Galveston, Texas, United States and was wrecked.
HMS K15 (Royal Navy) The K-class submarine sank at Portsmouth, Hampshire. She was refloated on 7 July.

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25th June 1921

British Prime Minister David Lloyd George invites Irish nationalist Éamon de Valera and unionist James Craig to a peace conference to seek an end to the Irish War of Independence.
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26th June 1921

Steamship Fitzroy sinks due to heavy storms off Cape Hawke, New South Wales, resulting in the deaths of 31 out of 35 crew and passengers.
https://i.postimg.cc/MKscxcV7/E4ry-Gu-JXIAA9tv6.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Fitzroy (Australia) The passenger ship foundered off the coast of New South Wales with the loss of 31 of the 35 people on board.

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27th June 1921

The Italian Cabinet, headed by Premier Giolitti, resigns after receiving a majority of only 34 upon a Socialist resolution opposing the Government's entire policy.
https://i.postimg.cc/gjCxZz62/but-now-youre-gorgeous.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Ferrum (United Kingdom) The cargo ship was driven ashore at Tréguier, Côtes-du-Nord, France. She was refloated on 4 July.
Stella (Sweden) The auxiliary sailing ship sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea 240 nautical miles (440 km) north north east of Spurn Point, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. All five crew were rescued by the trawler Romilly ( United Kingdom).

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28th June 1921

Parliament of Southern Ireland meets for the first time in Dublin. Due to the Sinn Féin boycott, only four Unionist members are present out of the 128 seats of the House of Commons.
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Vladimir Lenin addresses delegates in the Kremlin at the 3rd World Congress of the Comintern.
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General Pershing and General Harford.
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Ship Losses:

Brae Lossie (United Kingdom) The cargo ship came ashore at Roscoff, Finistère, France and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.
Isla de Cabrera (Spain) The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank in the Mediterranean Sea 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) south east of the Medes Islands. Her crew were rescued by a Spanish fishing vessel.
Sabine (United States) The dredger caught fire and sank at Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. She was a total loss.

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29th June 1921

Jennie Spencer-Churchill, known as Lady Randolph Churchill and the mother of Winston Churchill, has passed away.
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30th June 1921

Former U.S. President William Howard Taft is nominated as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and confirmed by the Senate on the same day, becoming the first and only person to serve as both President and Chief Justice.
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The UK releases Irish nationalists Arthur Griffith and Eoin MacNeill from prison as the British government prepares to negotiate an end to the Irish War of Independence.
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FT-17 tanks at a tank competition in Satory, France.
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Ship Losses:

Edward A. Cohan (United Kingdom) The schooner was destroyed by fire at Pascagoula, Mississippi, United States.
Mopang (United States) The EFC Design 1023 cargo ship was sunk by a mine in the Black Sea at the entrance to Burgas Bay.
U-152 (United Kingdom) The Type U 151 submarine was sunk as a target in the English Channel off the Isle of Wight by the Royal Navy.
U-153 (United Kingdom) The Type U 151 submarine was scuttled in the English Channel off the Isle of Wight.
U-161 (United Kingdom) The Type U 93 submarine was expended as a target.

[Jimbuna]

1st July 1921

Communist Party of China Founded.
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Ship Losses:

U-121 (French Navy) The Type UE II submarine was sunk as a target in the English Channel off Cherbourg, Manche.

[Jimbuna]

2nd July 1921

World heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey fight the world light-heavyweight champion Georges Carpentier in a match nicknamed the “Fight of the Century.” It is the first fight to generate more than $1 million in revenue.
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German Lieutenant-General Karl Stenger at the Leipzig War Crimes Trial, where he is accused of ordering the massacre of French POWs during the Great War (he is found not guilty)
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President Harding signs the joint Congressional peace resolution, thus ending the technical state of war with Germany and Austria-Hungary which has continued for two and a half years since the armistice.
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3rd July 1921

Monument to Canadian soldiers who fought in the Great War is unveiled at Thélus, France.
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4th July 1921

Independence Day is celebrated across the United States.
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Ivanoe Bonomi becomes the first socialist Prime Minister of Italy (he becomes Prime Minister again during WWII after Italy switched sides to the Allies)
https://i.postimg.cc/SsDyp2Xw/E5bv45-CXIAIY2h-W.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Cambrai (United Kingdom) The schooner was destroyed by fire at Galveston, Texas, United States.
Gertrude (United States) During a voyage from Nome, Territory of Alaska, to Siberia with a crew of five and a cargo of 15 tons of general merchandise, the 17-gross register ton motor schooner was beached in a sinking condition after colliding with ice and becoming trapped in it for seven hours approximately 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) southwest of a location identified in the wreck report as "East Cape," probably Cape Dezhnev on the coast of Siberia but possibly Apavawook Cape (63.1442°N 168.8711°W) on the coast of Saint Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea. Her crew survived, but the surf pounded her to pieces.

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5th July 1921

King Albert of Belgium visits the United Kingdom. King Albert and King George V heading towards Buckingham Palace.
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King and Queen of Belgium in London.
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6th July 1921

Philip de László painting his portrait of General Pershing.
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Anne Frances Robbins (Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States) is born in Uptown Manhattan. Nancy with her mother, actress Edith Luckett.
https://i.postimg.cc/GhT9gL73/E5bw-XJ-XMAA-RDh.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Margaret (United States) The 55-gross register ton motor vessel was destroyed by an explosion and fire while loading distillate oil at a dock at Katalla, Territory of Alaska. All three crewmen aboard her at the time suffered burns but survived.

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7th July 1921

The battleship USS Massachusetts being constructed (construction will be canceled in 1922 due to the Washington Naval Treaty, which limits the size of the Great Powers' navies)
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U.S. Navy C-3 blimp catches fire over Norfolk, Virginia and is destroyed. Pictured is the C-7 blimp of the same class.
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Stubby the hero World War I dog receives a gold medal from Gen. John J. Pershing.
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Ship Losses:

Eastern Sword (United States) The cargo ship ran aground at Belfast, County Antrim, United Kingdom. She was refloated on 10 July.

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8th July 1921

The battleship U.S.S. New Mexico underway.
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Sinn Féin Deputy Leader Arthur Griffith is welcomed by crowds as he heads to the Mansion House to negotiate with British delegates.
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Crowds gather outside the Mansion House in Dublin as Irish and British sides negotiate a truce to stop fighting in the Irish War of Independence.
https://i.postimg.cc/Gmh8YBVt/E5pq-UU0-XMAQ-EQt.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Cap Blanc (France) The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Peniche, Portugal. Her crew were rescued.
Western Comet (United States) The cargo ship ran aground at Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Inférieure, France. She was refloated on 21 July.

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9th July 1921

Truce agreement is signed between British and Irish sides to halt fighting in the Irish War of Independence, which will go into effect on the 11th
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Ship Losses:

Onoria (Italy) The cargo ship caught fire in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Matapan, Greece and sank (36°29′N 22°00′E). Her crew were rescued.

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10th July 1921

The third “Bloody Sunday” occurs in Belfast just one day before a truce goes into effect between Ireland and the UK. Loyalist and IRA forces clash, resulting in over 16 killed, 100 injured, and around 200 homes destroyed.
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11th July 1921

American steamship Western Front explodes and catches fire off the Isles of Scilly, resulting in one crew death.
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Truce goes into effect in Ireland, ending fighting in the Irish War of Independence. Crowds gather outside the Dublin Mansion House, reciting the Angelus prayer.
https://i.postimg.cc/3rG7vWWh/E55-G4k9-XMAINu-JK.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

General Pershing (Norway) The five-masted schooner struck the Endymion Rock, Turks Islands and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.
Western Front (United States) The steamship foundered several miles west of the Isles of Scilly when she caught fire after an explosion. She was carrying 7,000 tons of naval stores, including naphtha, turpentine and resin from Jacksonville to London. One member of the crew lost his life.

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12th July 1921

Officers and crew of the U.S. Navy submarine S-2
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Ship Losses:

Manuel L. Villaverde (Spain) The passenger ship struck rocks off the coast of Nigeria. She broke in two and sank. All on board were rescued.

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13th July 1921

Former German Navy destroyer SMS G102 is sunk off the coast of Virginia by U.S. Army S.E.5. airplanes as target practice.
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President Harding was today presented with a chair made from the first American battleship "The Revenge"
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Ship Losses:

General Turner (United Kingdom) The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Black Sea off Cape Kaliakra, Bulgaria. Her crew were rescued.
Roxana Burton (United Kingdom) The schooner was abandoned in the Mediterranean Sea 60 nautical miles (110 km) south east of Cape Palos, Spain. Her crew were rescued by the sailing ship Novelty (flag unknown).

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14th July 1921

Construction of the U.S.S. Constitution, a Lexington-class battleship, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. (Construction is cancelled due to the Washington Naval Treaty, which limits the size of Great Power navies)
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France celebrates Bastille Day.
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15th July 1921

Airship R.38 alongside the skeleton of the R.37, the former being the largest in the world. The R.37 will not be completed, and the R.38, originally meant for the Royal Navy, will be sold to the U.S.
https://i.postimg.cc/vTLFYS82/E6-IVbm-SWUAYMn-Jr-1.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

E. Marie Brown (United States) The schooner was rammed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 30 nautical miles (56 km) east of Fire Island, New York by Harmodius ( United Kingdom). Four of her crew were killed.
V43 German Empire The ex-German large torpedo boat, allocated to the United States under the Treaty of Versailles, was sunk as a target off Cape Henry by the American battleship Florida.

[Jimbuna]

16th July 1921

J.H. James wins the 200-mile Aerial Derby around London on his Gloster Mars aircraft.
https://i.postimg.cc/m2jfKq5t/E6-Yl-PQ2-XMAg-Mb7z.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Aida (Netherlands) The schooner was wrecked in the Caribbean Sea whilst on a voyage from Puerto Padre, Cuba to Barbados. All on board were rescued.

[Jimbuna]

17th July 1921

Ship Losses:

Helen Mathers (United Kingdom) The schooner came ashore at Galveston, Texas, United States and was wrecked.
HMS K15 (Royal Navy) The K-class submarine sank at Portsmouth, Hampshire. She was refloated on 7 July.

[Jimbuna]

18th July 1921

John Glenn (the first American to orbit Earth in space and later Senator of Ohio) is born in Cambridge, Ohio.
https://i.postimg.cc/mkVRCf0P/E6-Ymz-YJX0-AQj-ZOy.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

USS Frankfurt (United States Navy) The Wiesbaden-class light cruiser (formerly Imperial German Navy) was sunk as a target ship by United States Army Air Service and United States Navy bombers in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Henry, Virginia.
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19th July 1921

Ship Losses:

Denburn (United Kingdom) The coaster was destroyed by fire in the North Sea off Collieston, Aberdeenshire. Her crew were rescued.
Tender (United Kingdom) The coaster sank at Bridgwater, Somerset.

[Jimbuna]

20th July 1921

Ship Losses:

Antiope (United Kingdom) The tanker caught fire at Sourabaya, Netherlands East Indies, and was a total loss. Her crew were rescued.
William Finglay (United Kingdom) The cargo ship sank in the North Sea 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) south east of Tod Point, Yorkshire, UK.

[Jimbuna]

21st July 1921

Milorad Drašković, the Serbian Minister of Internal Affairs of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia), is killed by a communist assassin, causing the Communist Party of Yugoslavia to be banned.
https://i.postimg.cc/qB3RdnsY/E6nb-ZKd-WUAMo4-Wc.png (https://postimages.org/)

Former German dreadnaught SMS Ostfriesland is sunk by U.S. Army bombers. While the conditions of the test were controversial (the bombers used unauthorized 2000 lb bombs), the demonstration proved even large warships could be sunk by airplanes.
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Ship Losses:

USS Ostfriesland (United States Navy) The Helgoland-class battleship (ex- Imperial German Navy) was sunk as a target by United States Army Air Service aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

[Jimbuna]

22nd July 1921

The Douglas Aircraft Company is founded by Donald Wills Douglas Sr. The Douglas DT bomber will the company’s first military contract.
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At Annual, Morocco, Spanish forces led by General Silvestre (pictured) are defeated and routed at the hands of Rifian Berbers. In the following days, up to 15 thousand Spanish soldiers are killed, wounded, and captured, and General Silvestre’s body is never found.
https://i.postimg.cc/cLQCz1kV/E63-BQy9-XMAAct-Vs.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Selene (United Kingdom) The schooner caught fire in the Mozambique Channel and was abandoned. She was later towed into Majunga, Madagascar in a severely damaged state.
USS U-140 (United States Navy) The Type U 139 submarine was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Charles, Virginia by USS Dickerson ( United States Navy)

[Jimbuna]

23rd July 1921

Virginia National Guard, full field inspection, Camp Meade Maryland. July 23, 1921
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Ship Losses:

Acadian (United Kingdom) The schooner was destroyed by fire in the Turks Islands. Her crew were rescued.
Dagmar (Norway) The barque was wrecked off Providence Atoll, Seychelles. Her twelve crew were rescued by Louqsor ( France).
Sylph (United Kingdom) The cargo ship foundered in the Bristol Channel 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) off Steep Holm, Somerset.
Ville de Casablanca (France) The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank in the Mediterranean Sea off Dellys, Algeria. Her crew were rescued.

[Jimbuna]

24th July 1921

Greek troops defeat Turkish forces at Battle of Kütahya–Eskişehir, but Turkish troops are able to retreat in good order and preserve its strength. Greek soldiers and cavalry at Eskişehir.
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25th July 1921

French battleship Bretagne participating in a naval parade off Le Havre.
https://i.postimg.cc/1t1zKbr9/E7-CDw-Et-XMAAwsei.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Frontier (United Kingdom) The coaster struck the pier at Port Natal, South Africa. She was holed and consequently was beached.
Parthian (United States) The cargo ship sank at Oran, Algeria due to a fire.[181] She was refloated on 21 August.

[Jimbuna]

26th July 1921

American imposter Stanley Clifford Weyman (left), posing as an American Naval officer, succeeds in arranging a meeting between President Harding and an Afghan delegation led by Princess Fatima Sultana (2nd to right).
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Princess Fatima of Afghanistan.
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27th July 1921

People line the streets as French Prime Minister Millerand visits Rouen.
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28th July 1921

Greek soldiers armed with a French chauchat machine gun during the Greco-Turkish War.
https://i.postimg.cc/nL54XXnX/E7-CGHA5-Xs-AIXNwf.png (https://postimages.org/)

Silesia: Arrival of Scots soldiers of the Blackwatch Regiment in Opole in order to control the referendum dispute.
https://i.postimg.cc/VvPXF2r1/gqbp7in2iyd71.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

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29th July 1921

Adolf Hitler is selected by Nazi Party members as its party Chairman (Führer), replacing Anton Drexler (pictured)
https://i.postimg.cc/90xP97NT/E7-CFH6-MXs-AETw3-Q.png (https://postimages.org/)

Adolf Hitler is elected party chairman of the NSDAP by the general assembly. He gains dictatorial power and sometimes uses violence to propagate political goals. (Hitler in 1921)
https://i.postimg.cc/QCM1jMxM/rqnc5nytg4e71.jpg (https://postimg.cc/cgVrm03q)

Ship Losses:

Arzila (United Kingdom) The cargo ship ran aground in the Chiloé Archipelago, Chile. She was refloated on 19 August.
Nidelv (Norway) The cargo ship was driven ashore at Musselwick, Pembrokeshire United Kingdom and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.
Sainte Mathilde (France) The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais. Her crew were rescued.

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30th July 1921

Turkish officers captured in the Greco-Turkish war relax in a POW camp.
https://i.postimg.cc/3wyDrVZ7/f30c7600-6dbd-4913-bf88-9a42a9dd4a78.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Manuel L. Villaverde (Spain) The passenger ship struck rocks off the coast of Nigeria. She broke in two and sank. All on board were rescued.

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31st July 1921

Antiwar demonstrations are held in Berlin, with people holding signs that read “Never again War (Nie wieder Krieg)”
https://i.postimg.cc/8P6g31dd/E7-CFe-OWEAMS5-AO.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Canadian Exporter (Canada) The cargo ship ran aground at Willapa Harbor, Washington, United States. She broke her back and was a total loss.
Duchess (United Kingdom) The schooner was discovered derelict in the English Channel (50°28′N 0°23′E) by Stockwell ( United Kingdom). She was towed to Dover, Kent.

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1st August 1921

First flight of the Curtiss CR
https://i.postimg.cc/RZqH87c8/Curtiss-CR-1-with-B-Acosta-1921.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Siam Maru (Japan) The cargo ship came ashore 20 nautical miles (37 km) south of Cape Guardafui, Italian Somaliland. She was abandoned on 3 August and her crew were rescued by Kashima ( Imperial Japanese Navy). Siam Maru was later destroyed by fire and was a total loss.

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2nd August 1921

Ship Losses:

Shirotoki Maru (Japan) The coaster was driven ashore on Tsushima Island and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.

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3rd August 1921

The “Pact of Pacification” is signed by Italian fascists, led by Benito Mussolini (pictured), with the Italian Socialist Party and the General Confederation of Labor in an effort to reduce political instability in Italy; however, the pact is short lived.
https://i.postimg.cc/TYkMmw6f/E7u7-Fu-BXs-AI3-NC7.png (https://postimages.org/)

Russian poet Nikolay Gumilyov was arrested in the Soviet Union by the Cheka secret police on charges of being a monarchist. He was executed along with 60 other defendants on August 25.
https://i.postimg.cc/0QGhN5ng/Ngumil.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Popi (Greece) The cargo ship was abandoned in the Mediterranean Sea after the collapse of the crowns of her fireboxes.

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4th August 1921

U.S. Navy submarine USS S-12 is launched.
https://i.postimg.cc/dVpYVPLq/E757-P-h-Xo-Ag-Ts-H4.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Ellen Benzon (Denmark) The schooner was driven ashore at Seyðisfjörður, Iceland and was wrecked. Her crew were saved.
Salti I (Italy) The coaster struck a mine in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Foggia and sank with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by Mikali ( Greece).

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5th August 1921

U.S. Navy observation airship H-1 flying low over a field.
https://i.postimg.cc/Vv9cm7bR/E758-KGHXEAYwg3a.png (https://postimages.org/)

Two boys with Great War pilot William Cain (center) for an airplane ride. The ride costs $10 ($153 today) for 10 minutes.
https://i.postimg.cc/66CKrQ1v/E758ae8-Xo-AATmpe.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

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6th August 1921

Ship Losses:

Alaska (United States) The passenger ship ran aground on Blunts Reef, 40 nautical miles (74 km) south of Eureka, California, and sank with the loss of 48, or 31 passengers and 11 crew, of the 214 people on board. Some of the survivors were rescued by Anyox ( United Kingdom).

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7th August 1921

Ship Losses:

Calimeris (Greece) The cargo ship suffered an onboard explosion in her cargo and sank in the Mediterranean Sea. Her crew were rescued by Falka ( Sweden).
Golden Gate (United States) The barque ran aground on a reef 31 nautical miles (57 km) east of Point Manzanillo, Panama.[138] She was refloated on 15 August.

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8th August 1921

Ship Losses:

Celia Cohen (United Kingdom) The schooner caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean 60 nautical miles (110 km) off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by West Keene ( United States).
Lady of Gaspe (United Kingdom) The passenger ship ran aground at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was declared a total loss on 19 August.

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9th August 1921

Allied Finance Ministers meeting at the Supreme Council in France to discuss postwar issues.
https://i.postimg.cc/Nj77tYzr/119868738-uk-card-with-vax-2doses-09aug-nc.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Black Arrow (United States) The cargo ship ran aground at Cape Vilano, Algeria. She was refloated on 20 August.

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10th August 1921

Ship Losses:

Nellie Bywater (United Kingdom) The schooner ran aground on Holy Isle, Firth of Clyde. She was refloated on 23 August.
San Jose (United States) The cargo ship ran aground on Asuncion Island, Northern Mariana Islands. She was declared a total loss on 21 August.

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11th August 1921

Italian pilot Giovanni De Briganti piloting a Macchi M.7 wins the Schneider Trophy, the race for seaplanes and flying boats.
https://i.postimg.cc/MHB01XQG/E8-Ymy2u-XMAEqlnx.png (https://postimages.org/)

While on holiday at Lubec, Maine, future U.S. president (and recent U.S. vice presidential nominee in the 1920 election) Franklin D. Roosevelt suffered the first signs of paralysis from poliomyelitis. The disease was misdiagnosed by a local doctor as resulting a bad cold.

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12th August 1921

Members of the American Legion visit the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris at the Arc de Triomphe.
https://i.postimg.cc/j22Wf48T/E8-Yn-EAVXIAcv-Oup.png (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/3rf0TzRx/E8-Yn-EPRWYAAy-AHm.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

St Clair (France) The cargo ship caught fire at Mex, Egypt and was beached. She was a total loss.

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13th August 1921

Ship Losses:

Albatross (Germany) The sailing ship collided with Garm ( Sweden) at Holtenau and sank. She was refloated on 16 August.
Bethlehem (United Kingdom) The cargo ship ran aground at Little Bras d'Or, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was refloated on 18 August.
Planet (United Kingdom) The lightship was rammed and sunk in Liverpool Bay by Greenbrier ( United Kingdom). All six crew were rescued. She was refloated and beached on 19 August.

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14th August 1921

Manuel Allendesalazaar (left) resigns as Prime Minister of Spain due to the disastrous defeat of Spanish troops by Riffian forces in Annual, Morocco. He is replaced by Antonio Maura (right)
https://i.postimg.cc/WbMr0sz8/E8o-VTrg-WUAQBXKV.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Ferngarth (United Kingdom) The cargo ship caught fire, was abandoned and capsized in the Atlantic Ocean.

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15th August 1921

Turkish prisoners of war captured by the Greeks made to work on building a railroad.
https://i.postimg.cc/MpjrnVZn/E8o-Ve-FFWUAAVF-x.png (https://postimages.org/)

"France Is Barred From Sharing First German Billion. Nation Staggered by Experts' Ruling- Cash Goes to Britain and Belgium. Unmined Coal Discounted. France Debited for Value of All She Can Get Out of Sarre in 15 Years. Absurd, Paris Papers Say."
https://i.postimg.cc/PqW34Hwh/tdfs6mcnthh71.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

"Irish Crisis: Premier's "No" To Separation. De Valera Refuses The Government's Peace Terms"
https://i.postimg.cc/xCjR3zQy/5kz8ep5cxhh71.jpg (https://postimg.cc/ns5BHMCC)

Ship Losses:

Planter (United States) The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 30 nautical miles (56 km) off Key West, Florida. Her crew survived.

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16th August 1921

Thousands of KKK members gather near Chicago for an initiation ceremony, marking the revival and transformation of the movement, formerly centered in the South, into a national organization.
https://i.postimg.cc/NLqKsf3V/119956207-uk-card-with-vax-2doses-16aug-nc.png (https://postimages.org/)

The Second Dáil, the revolutionary legislature of the Irish Republic, convenes at the Mansion House in Dublin. The main topic of discussion concerns the negotiations for peace with Great Britain.
https://i.postimg.cc/wxtFj4Kc/E83-Oj-J-Xs-AAjv-An.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

King Peter (left) of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia), who led Serbia during the Great War, has passed away. He will be succeeded by his son Alexander (right).
https://i.postimg.cc/pVgChQRN/E83-PTo6-WYAA0ib-N.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Baden (Royal Navy) The decommissioned former Imperial German Navy battleship was scuttled in Hurd's Deep in the English Channel immediately after use as a gunnery target by the monitor HMS Erebus ( Royal Navy) and as an aerial bombing target by Royal Air Force aircraft.
Heiyei Maru No.2 (Japan) The cargo ship foundered off Toba, Mie.

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17th August 1921

Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, visiting Paris.
https://i.postimg.cc/Ghd7vqrs/E83-Ox0-JWUAIa-GDN.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Francois Pierre (France) The brigantine foundered in the Ligurian Sea 40 nautical miles (74 km) off Genoa, Italy. Her crew survived.
Jex (United Kingdom) The cargo ship foundered in Lake Ontario.

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18th August 1921

Facing internal opposition, Benito Mussolini dramatically resigns from his post in the Fascist Party.

Turkish POWs taken by Greek forces during the Greco-Turkish War.
https://i.postimg.cc/634wgPVM/120020478-uk-card-with-vax-2doses-18aug-nc.png (https://postimages.org/)

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19th August 1921

Passenger liner SS King Orry runs aground at New Brighton, England, necessitating the rescue of its 1300 passengers.
https://i.postimg.cc/mDPfJB6F/E9-HW92h-X0-Asl82z.png (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/TwBMXFZN/E9-HW-FBWYAEYYDB.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Canadian Recruit (Canada) The collier collided with Maskinonge ( United Kingdom) in the Saint Lawrence River and sank.
King Orry (Isle of Man) The passenger ferry ran aground at New Brighton, Cheshire, United Kingdom. Over 1,300 people were rescued. King Orry was refloated later that day.

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20th August 1921

The Malabar Rebellion begins in India as Mappila Muslims, led by Ali Musliyar (pictured), revolt against British colonial rule.
https://i.postimg.cc/cCLPC44X/E9-HXHMMWUAU-UQD.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Itaska (United Kingdom) The schooner was driven ashore at Saint-Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.

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21st August 1921

Foreign volunteers who fought in France during the Great War visit the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Les Invalides.
https://i.postimg.cc/Xqq0NZd7/E9-HX17l-WYAE8bat.png (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/c1kS9mGK/E9-HX2-KBXEAYmts-O.png (https://postimages.org/)

German police arrest serial killer Carl Großmann in his Berlin apartment. The number of his victims is unknown, but some estimate up to 100 women and girls. It is suspected he sold remains of his victims in the hotdog stand he ran.
https://i.postimg.cc/rFvLcwmM/E9-INZIQWEAMLF9-J.png (https://postimages.org/)

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22nd August 1921

Greek forces with artillery as they approach Turkish defenses on the Sakarya River.
https://i.postimg.cc/kGtL6pF6/E9-Xdj-X0-AM5-CN5.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Cordillère (France) The passenger ship was driven ashore on the Tungsha Spit, at the mouth of the Yangtze, China in a typhoon. Her passengers and some of the crew were taken off on 24 August. She was refloated on 5 September.
Glaucus (United Kingdom) The cargo ship was driven ashore on the Tungsha Spit during a typhoon. She was refloated on 5 September.
Guenowle (United Kingdom) The schooner came ashore at Blakeney, Norfolk. She broke her back and was a total loss.
Henrik (Norway) The cargo ship was driven ashore at the mouth of the Yangtze during a typhoon. She was refloated on 5 September.

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23rd August 1921

Faisal bin Hussein, one of the leaders of the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire, is coronated as the King of Iraq with support from the British.
https://i.postimg.cc/7P23qHXV/120221329-uk-card-with-vax-2doses-23aug-nc.png (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/RZXfgNVM/E9-Xd1ba-XMAM4rl-S.png (https://postimages.org/)

Battle of the Sakarya begins as Greek forces attack Turkish positions on the Sakarya River in an attempt to capture the Turkish capital Ankara. Greek Evzones (elite light/mountain infantry) on the attack.
https://i.postimg.cc/jd6yJMpn/E9-Xdu-Po-WEAM9u-Gs.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

ML498 (United Kingdom) The ex Naval patrol vessel stranded on rocks at Gurnard's Head, Cornwall.

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24th August 1921

U.S. and Austria sign a separate peace treaty officially ending the war between the two nations. Other Allied nations concluded peace with Austria in the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, but the U.S. did not ratify that treaty due to its refusal to join the League of Nations.

R.38-class airship (SR-2), the largest airship in the world, suffers a structural failure during flight trials and crashes into the Humber Estuary in northern England, killing 44 of its 49 crew.
https://i.postimg.cc/qqGR0sxh/E9-Xd9if-WQAUll-LB.png (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/GhctKfbk/E9-Xd91-TXIAEPro4.png (https://postimages.org/)

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25th August 1921

U.S. and Germany sign a separate peace treaty to end the state of war. The U.S. did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles with the other Allied powers due to its refusal to join the League of Nations.
https://i.postimg.cc/qRBkXGDM/E9md-Dg7-Xo-AANOMj.png (https://postimages.org/)

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26th August 1921

Matthias Erzberger, the former Vice Chancellor and Minister of Finance of Weimer Germany, is assassinated by the right-wing terrorist group Organisation Consul. Erzberger was widely hated by the right wing for signing the Armistice ending the Great War.
https://i.postimg.cc/bvxPr02g/E9md-XYTXIAA8e-Hw.png (https://postimages.org/)

Eamon de Valera is formally named the President of the Irish Republic by the Dáil Éireann, the revolutionary parliament of Ireland.
https://i.postimg.cc/rmqkrd1k/E9md-IB3-WEAQGf05.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Caddo (United States) The barge sank in 65 feet (20 m) of water in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New Jersey southeast of Barnegat Inlet.
City of Brunswick (United States) On passage from Mobile, Alabama, to Antwerp, Belgium, with a cargo of grain and lumber, the cargo ship ran aground off Sambro Island, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and subsequently was wrecked.

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27th August 1921

Ship Losses:

Dagmar (Norway) The barque was wrecked off Providence Atoll, Seychelles. Her twelve crew were rescued by Louqsor ( France)

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28th August 1921

Ship Losses:

Brae Lossie (United Kingdom) The cargo ship came ashore at Roscoff, Finistère, France and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.

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29th August 1921

Ship Losses:

Monte Bianco (Italy) The cargo ship was destroyed by fire in the Pacific Ocean (approximately 29°S 151°W). Her crew were rescued.

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30th August 1921

A floating crane is used to salvage remains of the R38 airship, the largest dirigible in the world that exploded over the town of Hull, England.
https://i.postimg.cc/hv3pjQ0M/E918-Tr-WQAAHr7-L.png (https://postimages.org/)

A Rifian Berber cavalryman in Morocco. Rifian forces continue to harass and attack retreating Spanish troops following the Battle of Annual.
https://i.postimg.cc/2SW2k6LF/E918-Tr-WQAAHr7-L.png (https://postimages.org/)

Camels and trucks at the Greek Army headquarters in Turkey, as Greek and Turkish troops clash deep in Anatolia.
https://i.postimg.cc/QMkm7ybF/E918-Tr-WQAAHr7-L.png (https://postimages.org/)

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31st August 1921

Large demonstrations are held outside of the Berlin Palace in response to the assassination of politician Matthias Erzberger by a right-wing group.
https://i.postimg.cc/x1Wv5xS3/howdy-maam.png (https://postimages.org/)

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1st September 1921

Battleship USS Washington is launched from Camden, New Jersey (construction of the ship is halted in 1922, and it is sunk in 1924 for gunnery practice)
https://i.postimg.cc/2jFng13p/being-me-has-pretty-much-ruined-my-life.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

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2nd September 1921

U.S. Federal troops begin arriving in West Virginia to halt the fighting at the Battle of Blair Mountain between striking miners and strikebreakers.
https://i.postimg.cc/DfjtVDLQ/E-KOmr-AXs-AIT82-C.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Tornado (United States) The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank at New Orleans, Louisiana.

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3rd September 1921

At the Battle of Blair Mountain, hundreds of armed miners surrender their weapons to federal troops, bringing an end to active fighting between the miners and strikebreakers.
https://i.postimg.cc/nz3vf92c/E-KO-Ed-Xo-AIf1mu.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Abessinia (Germany) The cargo ship struck the Knivestone Rock and sank in the North Sea off the Farne Islands, Northumberland, United Kingdom (55°38′46″N 1°36′16″W).

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4th September 1921

Ship Losses:

J. E. Backman (United Kingdom) The schooner was destroyed by fire off Watlings Island, Bahamas.

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5th September 1921

Crown Prince Hirohito (left) returns to Japan after his tour of Europe. The tour was the first foreign trip of a Japanese Crown Prince.
https://i.postimg.cc/SswjRBrz/E-Zbloy-XIAQs-Vz3.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Clarrie (United Kingdom) The cargo ship was wrecked at the entrance to St. Sampson's, on the Roustel Rock, Guernsey, Channel Islands inward from Newhaven, Sussex in ballast and sank. All seven crew were rescued.
Santa Teresa (Italy) The cargo ship struck a mine in the Black Sea 40 nautical miles (74 km) from the entrance to the Bosphorus and sank. The crew were rescued.

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6th September 1921

The Peace Arch situated on the U.S.-Canada border between Surrey, British Columbia and Blaine, Washington is dedicated to commemorate a century of peace between the two countries.
https://i.postimg.cc/5NVkjskT/E-Zb70-BXEAYSC0-C.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

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7th September 1921

Commemorations are held to mark the anniversary of the First Battle of the Marne at Meaux Cathedral, France.
https://i.postimg.cc/rwVYPGZR/E-ov-Gl0-XIAkg-JXk.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Almanzora (United Kingdom) The ocean liner ran aground at Oporto, Portugal. Her 1,200 passengers were taken off on 8 September. She was refloated on 13 September.
Thyra (Greece) The cargo ship sank off Lemnos.

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8th September 1921

Ship Losses:

Beacon Grange (United Kingdom) The cargo ship ran aground at Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina and was abandoned. She was declared a total loss on 12 September.
Corrib (United Kingdom) The cargo ship ran aground on the west coast of Tory Island, County Donegal. Her crew were rescued. She was abandoned as a total loss on 14 October.

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9th September 1921

Charlie Chaplin returns to England for the first time since 1912 and is welcomed by large crowds in London.
https://i.postimg.cc/FR09jkPs/E-owzmo-WYAEd-mo.png (https://postimages.org/)

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10th September 1921

War and Peace statues in the U.S. Capitol building undergoes renovation.
https://i.postimg.cc/ZnLWZQH1/120498850-uk-card-with-vax-2doses-10sep-nc.png (https://postimg.cc/N25skpW4)

Actor Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle is arrested and charged with the murder of actress Virginia Rappe.
https://i.postimg.cc/HsBrhfVM/E-4e-Ab-FXs-AQo4-LC.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Cecilia Sudden (United States) The schooner caught fire in the Pacific Ocean and was abandoned.

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11th September 1921

Prince Louis of Battenberg, the former First Sea Lord of the British Royal Navy at the start of the Great War, has passed away. He was forced into retirement early in the War due to his background as a German prince.
https://i.postimg.cc/vTgXtzcK/E-4e-NJk-WUAAfa5e.png (https://postimages.org/)

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12th September 1921

Greek forces evacuating their wounded at the Battle of Sakarya as the fight against Turkish defenders turns against them.
https://i.postimg.cc/056sG7Ps/E-4e-XUPXMAMio-Wu.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

José Salgado (Spain) The schooner sank at her moorings at Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.

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13th September 1921

Turkish forces defeat the Greek Army at the Battle of Sakarya in the turning point of the Greco-Turkish War. Mustafa Kemal observes Greek positions during the battle.
https://i.postimg.cc/tCtb4rJD/120525509-uk-card-with-vax-2doses-12sep-nc.png (https://postimages.org/)

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14th September 1921

Bodies of American soldiers killed in Europe return to their hometown of Barnesville, Minnesota. A number of American dead in Europe continue to be returned home years after the Great War.
https://i.postimg.cc/8CydryhL/E-Hz-Fj-AX0-AEqvxx.jpg (https://postimages.org/)https://i.postimg.cc/C1zGCjNX/E-Hz-F-u-WYAUsr98.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Hitler and other Nazi members engage in a fight with Bavarian secessionists led by Otto Ballerstedt (pictured) at Munich. Hitler is sentenced to jail for 100 days for assaulting Ballerstedt (who is killed by the SS in 1934, likely on Hitler’s orders)
https://i.postimg.cc/QtwpfHYt/E-Hyr-DYWYAEVKsy.png (https://postimages.org/)

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15th September 1921

Baron von Ungern-Sternberg, Russian anticommunist warlord who intervened in Mongolia to expel the Chinese from the country and revive the Mongol Empire, is executed by firing squad after he was captured by the Red Army.
https://i.postimg.cc/qvmTR5J8/E-Hz-Mjr-WUAIHP4-X.png (https://postimg.cc/LJZ7QvZX)

Ship Losses:

Louis Gustave (France) The three-masted schooner caught fire in the English Channel and was abandoned 8 nautical miles (15 km) north west of Guernsey, Channel Isles.

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16th September 1921

Ship Losses:

Farlings (United Kingdom) The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked on the north east coast of Barbados.
Socrates (United Kingdom) The schooner was wrecked at Barbados.
Namara (United Kingdom) The schooner was dismasted and abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean (approximately 23°N 71°W).
Pepita Maru (Spain) The cargo ship ran aground at Utö, Finland. Her crew were rescued.
Sophie (France) The coaster struck a mine and sank in the Black Sea 14 nautical miles (26 km) off Constanţa, Romania. Her crew were rescued.

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17th September 1921

Bodies of American crewmen of the R38/ZR-2 airship disaster arrive back in the United States. The airship, the largest in the world, exploded and crashed last month while testing in England.
https://i.postimg.cc/sXh4cwgq/E-X5tkk-XIAc-Pdt-A.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

São Thomé (Portugal) The cargo ship was wrecked at Mpando, French Equatorial Africa.

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18th September 1921

Ship Losses:

Ville de Lyon (France) The cargo ship foundered in the Mediterranean Sea off Peñón de Alhucemas, Spanish Morocco.

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19th September 1921

George Mountbatten and Louis Mountbatten attend the funeral of their father Louis Alexander Mountbatten (Prince Louis of Battenberg), former First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy.
https://i.postimg.cc/Mpjv5X7v/E-l-QIHv-XIAMu-Vis.png (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Malden (United States) After colliding with the steamer Jonancy ( United States) off Montauk Point, Long Island, New York, in dense fog on 18 September during a voyage from Norfolk, Virginia, to Boston, Massachusetts, the 5,054-gross register ton cargo ship was beached on Long Island 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Montauk Point and 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) off shore. Her wreck settled in 40 feet (12 m) of water, and she was declared a total loss. Her crew of 42 survived and was rescued by Jonancy and the cutter USCGC Achushnet (Ensign of the United States Coast Guard (1915–1953)

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20th September 1921

Red Cross headquarters established in San Antonio after devastating floods hit the region earlier this month.
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21st September 1921

Nevil Macready, Commander-in-Chief of British forces in Ireland, with Winston Churchill heads to a Cabinet meeting at Brahan Castle.
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General Pershing, former commander of the American Expeditionary force, returns to France for a visit.
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Ship Losses:

Palestine (Tunisia) The brig was in collision with Clan Colquhoun ( United Kingdom at Valletta, Malta and sank. All on board were rescued.

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22nd September 1921

Mahatma Gandhi abandons Western attire and adopts a simple loin-cloth worn by many of India’s poor.
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Ship Losses:

Salina (Norway) The cargo ship collided with Jan Breydel ( Belgium) in the English Channel between the East Goodwin and South Goodwin Lightships (both United Kingdom) and sank with the loss of fourteen of her 25 crew. Survivors were rescued by Jan Breydel.

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23rd September 1921

U.S. Army Air Service begins conducting bombing tests against the decommissioned battleship USS Alabama. White phosphorus bomb are used against the ship.
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Bernard Barny de Romanet, French aerial ace with 18 victories and former world record holder for aerial speed, is killed in a plane crash.
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24th September 1921

The New York Yankees meet the Cleveland Indians in the first of a four-game tourney to decide which team would advance to the World Series. The Yankees beat the Indians 4-2.
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25th September 1921

Assassination attempt is made against Polish Marshal Józef Piłsudski by Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Fedak in Lwów (Lviv, Ukraine). Piłsudski escapes unharmed, while Fedak accidentally shoots himself when he was apprehended.
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26th September 1921

Ship Losses:

Colombia River (United States) The schooner was wrecked on Sunday Island, Queensland, Australia. Her crew survived.
Ingeborg (Sweden) The schooner was driven ashore at Kumnaes and was wrecked. Her crew survived.
USS R-6 (United States Navy) The R-class submarine sank at San Pedro, California. She was refloated on 13 October. Subsequently repaired and returned to service.
Seifuku Maru (Japan) The cargo ship was wrecked on this date.

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27th September 1921

After multiple hits by aerial bombs as part of a U.S. Army bombing exercise, the decommissioned battleship USS Alabama sinks in Chesapeake Bay.
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Ship Losses:

USS Alabama (United States Navy) The decommissioned Illinois-class battleship sank in the Chesapeake Bay after use as a target from 23 to 25 September by aircraft of the 1st Provisional Air Brigade (United States United States Army Air Service)

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28th September 1921

American test pilot John A. Macready sets an aerial altitude record by reaching 40,800 feet (12,400 m) in a Lepere biplane.
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Piloting the same United States Army Air Service Packard-Le Peré LUSAC-11 fighter that set a world altitude record on February 27, 1920, Lieutenant John A. Macready sets a new world altitude record of 10,518 meters (34,508 feet). Macready receives the Mackay Trophy for the flight.
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Ship Losses:

Lambaness (United Kingdom) The cargo ship ran aground at Land's End, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued by the Sennen Lifeboat.
Rigmor (Denmark) The schooner ran aground at Akureyri, Iceland, and was wrecked. Her crew survived.

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29th September 1921

Ship Losses:

Hedvig (Sweden) The auxiliary schooner caught fire at Amsterdam, Netherlands and was scuttled.

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30th September 1921

The battleship USS Colorado undergoing construction at Camden, New Jersey.
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Ship Losses:

Rusamet No. 4 (Ottoman Navy) The guard ship was lost on this date.

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1st October 1921

Ship Losses:

Namara (United Kingdom) The schooner was dismasted and abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean (approximately 23°N 71°W).

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2nd October 1921

General Pershing, former commander of the American Expeditionary Force, visits the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris.
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William II of Württemberg, the last King of Württemberg, has passed away. Like other German monarchs, he had been deposed at the end of the Great War.
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Ship Losses:

Triton (Denmark) The cargo ship ran aground at Gosvarosen, Norway and sank.
Tanana (United States) During a voyage in the Territory of Alaska from Fairbanks to Tolovana with 21 crewmen but no passengers or cargo aboard, the 495-gross register ton, 149.6-foot (45.6 m) passenger ship – a sternwheel paddle steamer – struck a submerged snag on the Tanana River 1 mile (1.6 km) above Minto, turned toward shore to beach herself before she could sink in deep water, and sank in 6 feet (1.8 m) of water. Salvage was impossible in 1921 due to the imminent onset of winter, and by the time the weather began to moderate in the spring of 1922 she was beyond economical repair, so she was stripped of her machinery and equipment and abandoned.

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3rd October 1921

The U.S. Supreme Court opens its first session with William Taft serving as the Chief Justice (The Taft Court will take a laissez faire attitude on the economy, striking down regulations, but generally refrains from striking down laws affecting civil liberties)
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Ship Losses:

Corona (Peru) The sailing ship foundered. Her crew were rescued.

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4th October 1921

Ship Losses:

Rokko Maru (Japan) The cargo ship foundered off Hamashima.

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5th October 1921

Ship Losses:

Glauco (Italy) The schooner caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean and was abandoned (approximately 21°N 75°W).
J. T. Robinson (United States) While departing the Ahrnklin River bound for Yakutat, Territory of Alaska, the 18-gross register ton, motor vessel sank with the loss of five lives while attempting to cross the Ahrnklin River Bar (59°25′45″N 139°32′20″W) on the coast of Southcentral Alaska in bad weather.
Marie (Germany) The schooner foundered in the North Sea 25 nautical miles (46 km) off Hanstholm, Denmark.

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6th October 1921

President Harding presents a chair used by President Roosevelt to the Roosevelt Memorial Society.
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7th October 1921

Brazilian Battleship Minas Geraes off the coast of Jersey City, New Jersey, with the Colgate Clock in the background.
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Ship Losses:

USS Herreshoff No. 321 (United States Navy) The patrol vessel sank in the Pacific Ocean off California whilst under tow by USS Nitro ( United States Navy).
Imprimus (United Kingdom) The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Hartfield ( United Kingdom).

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9th October 1921

Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen with his wife Rosamond Soong Ch'ing-ling.
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Ship Losses:

Margery Mahaffy (United Kingdom) The schooner was wrecked in Trepassey Bay. Her crew were rescued.

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10th October 1921

Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia (known for recognizing Anna Anderson as Princess Anastasia) marries William Bateman Leeds Jr..
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