1921

YEAR
1921
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Events

• By this year the French had seized Damascus and thrown Feisal ibn Hussein off the throne.
• By this year Adolf Zucker's Paramount Pictures owned over 300 first-run movie theaters.
• Warren G. Harding is elected president of United States of America.
• The Cairo Conference.
• The Communist Party is formed in Shanghai.
• First automatic local dialing service is put into operation in Omaha, Nebraska.
• Insulin, a treatment for diabetes, is discovered.
• The new Soviet government finally prevails in Russia.
• Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the German Workers' party and renames it as the National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) party. His stormtroopers begin to terrorize political opponents.
• Leonardo Sarducci leaves prison with a pardon.
• Royal Air Force takes aerial photographs of Stonehenge.
• Edith Wharton is the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize.
• Chamber of Princes: the official forum for the Indian states is set up by the British Crown.
• Gandhi's non-cooperative movement degenerates into serious rioting in Bombay, Calcutta and several smaller cities in northern India.
• March: Indiana Jones becomes friends with Jack Shannon at the University of Chicago.
• A survey team discovers a stone table not far from Site Number One.
• Ireland is divided between Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland. The Irish Free State given partial independence.
• Board of Trustees member Bradley Tavistock fires Arthur Hecht over for his crazy theories regarding the Tower of Tears.
• September: Lieutenant John McCready takes a LePere up to over forty-one thousand feet in altitude.
• Greece invades Turkey.
• Turkish nationalist government established in Ankara.
• Pacific Treaty signed between Great Britain, Japan, France and the United States.
• Iraq becomes an independent kingdom. Its borders are drawn by Gertrude Bell. Faisal I becomes King of Iraq.
• Iran given limited self-government by Great Britain.
• The Southern United States is thrust into racial violence begun by the Ku Klux Klan.
• Chewing gum first becomes available.
• Dozens of ships mysteriously disappear in the Bermuda Triangle.
• John J. Pershing is made Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
• Paris conference of Allies fixes German reparation payments.
• Revolution in Lisbon.
• Premier of Japan is assassinated.
• Hirohito is named prince regent of Japan.
• British Broadcasting Company is founded.

Births

• May 26: Irina Spalko in Kazan, USSR

Deaths

• Antonio Machado Santos in Lisbon
• Hara

Appearances

• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Revolution (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone (Mentioned only)
•  The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones – "Revenge of the Ancients" (Indirect mentioned)
•  The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones – "Tower of Tears!" (Indirect mentioned)
• Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings novel (Cancelled) (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the Golden Fleece (Indirect mention)
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Mentioned only) (FBI file)

Sources

• So Then What Happened? (Non-fiction source)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Sourcebook
• The World of Indiana Jones
• Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates and Other Tales
•  Adolf Hitler on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Media Kit
• Colonel Lawrence's War - T.E. Lawrence and Arabia (Non-fiction source)
• Ireland - The Power of the Poets (Non-fiction source)
• V. I. Lenin - History Will Not Forgive Us (Non-fiction source)
• The Secret Life of Edith Wharton (Non-fiction source)
• New Gods for Old (Non-fiction source)
• The Rise of the Moguls - The Men Who Built Hollywood (Non-fiction source)
• Prohibition - America on the Rocks (Non-fiction source)
• Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide

External links

• 1921 on Wikipedia