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News and Events of 1921

World Events

population by decade

Nobel Peace Prize:
Karl H. Branting (Sweden) and Christian L. Lange (Norway)

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Major treaties signed at Washington Disarmament Conference limit naval tonnage and pledge to respect territorial integrity of China.

President: Warren G. Harding
Vice President: Calvin Coolidge
Population: 108,538,000

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Congress passes Budget and Accounting Act, which creates the Bureau of Budget (June 10).
U.S. Congress, in a joint resolution, declares WWI ended (July 2).
First burial is held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery (Nov. 11).

Federal spending:   $5.06 billion
Consumer Price Index:   17.9
Unemployment:   11.7%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.02

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NY Giants d. NY Yankees (5-3)

Ottawa d. Vancouver (PCHA) (3-2)

Women: Suzanne Lenglen d. E. Ryan (6-2 6-0)
Men: Bill Tilden d. B. Norton (4-6 2-6 6-1 6-0 7-5)

Behave Yourself

California (CFRA) (9-0-1) & Cornell (NCF, HF) (8-0-0)

Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
Drama: Miss Lulu Bett, Zona Gale

Nobel Prize for Literature: Anatole France (France)

Miss America: Margaret Gorman (DC)

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The Sheik, directed by George Melford, debuts and establishes star Rudolph Valentino as cinema's best-known lover.
The Cleveland Playhouse opens, becoming the country's first resident professional theater.
Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence wins Pulitzer Prize.
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, the rotund actor, director and producer, is arrested on manslaughter charges, after a woman died following a party at his house. He was acquitted after three trials, but his career in film never recovered.