Benjamin Harney, noted sculptor, making a working model of cigar smoking President-elect Harding during a round of golf on course at St. Augustine, Fla., 2/21/21.
President Elect Harding, who hadn't wanted to be President in the first place, and looking calm for a man who had just paid off one mistress but was, um, busy with another, chose to go golfing on this day in 1921. Still, the period equivalent of the paparazzi wouldn't leave him alone.
Ahad Shad Qajar, who only had two more years to reign, and only titular reign at that.
Harding was about to assume office in March, but in Iran General Reza Shah Pahlavi and journalist (yes journalist) Zia'eddin Tabatabaee deposed Fatollah Khan Akbar with the goal of preserving the Qajar Dynasty. Ahmad Shah would remain the nominal king of the country for two years before being sent packing in 1923. Reza Khan, by 1925, would decide that he'd be a nifty king and he founded the Pahlavi Dynasty that ruled until deposed in 1979, with results that continue to echo through to us today, and not in a good way.
Reza Khan.
Reza Khan was a commander of the Persian Cossack Brigade, which gets into their confusing nature, as they were not real Cossacks, ethnically, but were modeled on that group. His mother was a Muslim Georgian and his father a Mazanderani, which meant that he was not of Persian ethnicity.
Poland and France added a secret addition to their recent treaty that provided that starting in 1923 a military alliance would exist which would require each nation to assist the other in the even of a German attack and which provided, contrary to Soviet suspicions, that that Poland would not attack the USSR.
Aidan de Brune became the first person to walk across Australia by himself, arriving in Sydney after having left 90 days prior from Freemantle, which is pretty good time really.
The first ski jumping competition in the United States occurred at Lake Placid.
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