The Rif War came to an end in Spain with Spain victorious.
The Sitka National Monument was established.
Japanese film maker Akira Kurosawa was born.
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The Spanish war department announced that Spain had landed 5,000 additional troops in Morocco in support of its position in the Rif War.
Hollis "Sloppy" Thurston struck out three Philadelphia A's on nine itches in the 12th inning, pitching for the Chicago White Sox.
Thurston pitched the screwball. The Nebraskan played ball, in the majors and the minors, until 1938.
The German National Socialist Party, the NASDP, commonly called the Nazi Party, held its first party congress. It was held in Munich, where the party was centered at the time, and drew 6,000 members.
The tiny Republic of San Marino was forced by local fascists into union with Italy. The micro state has since regained independence.
The Republic of the Rif released the remaining 326 prisoners of war it held to Spain, in exchange for 4,000,000 pesetas. 261 POWS had died in Rifian captivity.
The Country Gentleman had an age-old theme.
Of interest, that style of winter hat is still very popular with outdoorsmen and agriculturalist. I have two of them.
The Saturday Evening Post had an extraordinarily boring cover.
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William Howard Taft was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on this day in 1921. He's been named to the position that prior June.
A live baseball game was broadcast for the first time when KDKA broadcast the Pirates v the Phillies. The Phillies won, 8 to 5.
Mustafa Kemal is elected to the position of generalissimo for a period of three months by the Turkish National Assembly.
The Rif forces took Nador and Selouane. The Spanish forces in Selouane had numbered 200, of which only nine survived the event.
The Chicago trial of the Black Sox ended with an acquittal. Major League Baseball nonetheless judged the accused as sufficiently convicted it in its eyes and continued their lifetime ban from baseball.
On this Tuesday, this first week of August 1921, Riffian forces took Nadar and Selouane in Morocco.
The Spanish presence in Morocco was effectively collapsing.
Enrico Caruso, legendary opera singer, then age 48, died of peritonitis in Naples.
The U.S. Coast Guard seized the British schooner Henry L. Marshall twelve miles off of New Jersey, i.e., international waters, where it was found to hold, upon boarding, 12,000 cases of liquor. The boat was one of several owned by the McCoy brothers who had turned to liquor smuggling with the advent of Prohibition. Of them, William McCoy is the best remembered, with his refusal to cut what he was shipping leading to the phrase "the real McCoy".
Ironically, Daytona Beach based McCoy was a teetotaler.
McCoy's strategy relied upon his being in international waters. His ship didn't run booze into Atlantic City itself, but rather transferred to smaller boats that came out to it.
Margaret Gorman, Miss Washington D. C. was photographed.
Gorman was regarded as a great beauty and would go on that year to be crowned Miss America. She married a few years later and lived happily the rest of her life in Washington D.C, noting in later years that she'd become bored with her beauty pageant history.
Spanish forces in Morocco, fighting in the Rif War, sustained a defeat at the Battle of Annul. The defeat was crushing and involved the loss of the entire Spanish command right down to senior leadership. Only a cavalry unit was able to maintain order and extract itself in a fighting retreat. Most of the command being made up of Spanish conscripts, they lost order quickly and were mowed down by Moroccan forces.
On this day in 1921 the legendary Douglas Aircraft Company was founded in Santa Monica, California.
A manufacturer of legendary aircraft, particularly the DC-3, the company merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967. The new McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing in 1997.
