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.
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.
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).
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.