100 Years Ago Today

Today in History. Covering daily news from 1921.

By Ryo Kawashima.

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Argentina holds its general elections, with Marcelo T. de Alvear winning the presidency (under his term, Argentina will see tremendous economic growth, with GDP per capita matching Western Europe):

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Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist known for developing the inkblot Rorschach test, has passed away at the age of 37:

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Cambridge rowing team defeats Oxford at the 74th Boat Race:

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Turkish First Army conduct military exercises at Ilgin. Turkey is reorganizing its army as the ongoing Greco-Turkish war remains at a stalemate:

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500,000 members of the United Mine Workers of America start a coal strike across the United States. Workers at Scranton, Pennsylvania walking out of their jobs:

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Members of the Ulster Special Constabulary/Royal Irish Constabulary murder six Catholic civilians, including a child, in Belfast, supposedly in retaliation for the killing of an RIC officer by the IRA. Funeral procession for the victims:

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Charles, the last Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, has passed away at the age of 34 while in exile on the island of Madeira, Portugal:

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Polar explorer Roald Amundsen (left) meets with American aviation experts in Washington, D.C.:

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6 members of a small farmstead in Bavaria, Germany are all brutally murdered by an unknown assailant. Known as the Hinterkaifeck murders, the case remains unsolved. The site of the murders:

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The Irish Free State Act is passed by the British Parliament and given Royal Assent, which brings force of law to the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which was signed December of last year:

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Women at the American Red Cross Chapter of New York transcribe popular fiction into braille for blinded veterans:

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Portuguese pilots Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral begin the first aerial flight across the South Atlantic Ocean from Portugal to Brazil:

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Disabled veterans at the Drexel Boulevard Hospital in Chicago enjoy news and music on the radio:

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U.S. Senate votes to ratify the Washington Naval Treaty, which limits the size of the navies of the Great Powers, as well as a treaty limiting the use of submarines and poison gas in warfare:

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A solar eclipse occurs over parts of South America, the Atlantic Ocean, and northern Africa:

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Toronto St. Patricks wins the 1922 Stanley Cup Finals, defeating the Vancouver Millionaires 3 games to 2. The St. Patricks team:

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Two Russian ultranationalists attempt to assassinate former Russian Foreign Minister Pavel Milyukov (left) in Berlin. His friend Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (right, father of author Vladimir Nabokov) is killed attempting to stop the assassins.

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Two Koreans attempt to assassinate former Japanese Minister of War Tanaka Giichi (pictured) in Shanghai, but he escapes unharmed. In the crossfire, an American woman is killed and four others are wounded:

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Unemployed workers in New York City demonstrate, demanding more jobs and better working conditions: