January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
Day of marriage October 6, 1921
The temperature on October 6, 1921 was between 12.5 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
July 11 » A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
July 11 » Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
August 28 » The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.
September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
November 11 » The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
December 22 » Opening of Visva-Bharati College, also known as Santiniketan College, now Visva Bharati University, India.
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