Explore 4052 historical events from 1920–1929.
The Romanian Communist Party was a communist party in Romania. It was founded in 1921 and became the founding and ruling party of the Communist Socialist Republic of Romania in 194…
The creation of the Communist Party of Romania
The United States Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. It is a bicameral legislature, including a lower body, the U.S. House of Repres…
The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky, nicknamed the Red Napoleon, was a Soviet general who was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a military officer and theoretician. He was later exe…
Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant upr
Knockcroghery is a village and townland in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is located on the N61 road between Athlone and Roscommon town, near Lough Ree on the River Shannon. The tow…
The village of Knockcroghery, Ireland, is burned by British forces
Buckingham and Carnatic Mills, popularly known as B & C Mills, were textile mills run by Binny and Co. in the city of Madras, India. The mills were closed down in 1996 and the s…
Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike
Knockcroghery is a village and townland in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is located on the N61 road between Athlone and Roscommon town, near Lough Ree on the River Shannon. The tow…
The Irish village of Knockcroghery was burned by British forces
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular pre…
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The Irish War of Independence, also known as the Anglo-Irish War, was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army and British forces: the …
A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
The Rif War was an armed conflict fought from 1921 to 1926 between Spain and Berber tribes of the mountainous Rif region of northern Morocco.
Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of…
Atlantic City, sometimes referred to by its initials A.C., is a seaside resort city in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
The Legion of Mary is an international association of members of the Catholic Church who serve on a voluntary basis. It was founded in Dublin, as a Marian movement by the layman an…
The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin,…
Margaret Gorman was an American model and beauty queen who was the winner of the first Miss America beauty pageant after being crowned Miss District of Columbia in 1921.
Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed…
Nahalal is a moshav in northern Israel. Covering 8.5 square kilometers (3.3 mi2), it falls under the jurisdiction of the Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In 2024 it had a populatio…
Nahalal, a Jewish moshav in Palestine, is settled.
The Oppau explosion occurred on September 21, 1921, when approximately 4,500 tonnes of a mixture of ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate fertilizer stored in a tower silo exploded…
A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
The 1921 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1921 season. The 18th edition of the World Series, it matched the National League (NL) champion N…
The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
The Treaty of Kars was a treaty that established the borders between Turkey and the three Transcaucasian Soviet republics, which are now the independent republics of Armenia, Georg…
Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
The Partition of Ireland was the process by which the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (UK) divided Ireland into two self-governing polities: Northern …
Ireland is partitioned under British law by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, creating Northern Ireland and Southern I
West Virginia is a mountainous, landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland to the northeast, Virgin…
West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years
The Tulsa race massacre was a two-day-long terrorist massacre perpetrated by white supremacists that took place in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, between…
The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300
The 1921 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1921 season. The 18th edition of the World Series, it matched the National League (NL) champion N…
The World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time.
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular pre…
President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. president against lynching in the Deep South.
Melvin Tyler Storer was an American shipfitter, navy diver and welder who served in the United States Navy Reserve on the USS West Virginia and USS Yarnall. He was aboard the USS C…
Melvin Storer, American shipfitter and navy diver (died 2003)
Jean Richard was a French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur. He is best remembered for his role as Georges Simenon's Maigret in the eponymous French television series, which…
Jean Richard, French actor and singer (died 2001)
Alexander I Karađorđević, also known as Alexander the Unifier, was King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from 16 August 1921 to 3 October 1929 and King of Yugoslavia from 3 Octobe…
Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter a