October 1921

The following events occurred in October 1921:

October 5, 1921 (Wednesday)

• The first broadcast of a World Series game on the radio, by Newark, New Jersey, station WJZ; Pittsburgh station KDKA; and a group of other commercial and amateur stations throughout the eastern United States.

October 8, 1921 (Saturday)

• The first Sweetest Day is staged in Cleveland, Ohio.

October 10, 1921 (Monday)

• Teaching at the University of Szeged starts in the Kingdom of Hungary.

October 13, 1921 (Thursday)

• The Treaty of Kars is signed between the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and the Soviet Socialist Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, establishing the boundaries between Turkey and the states of the south Caucasus.
• Swedish Social Democratic party leader Hjalmar Branting becomes yet again Prime Minister, after strong general election gains for his party.

October 19, 1921 (Wednesday)

• 'Bloody Night' (Noite Sangrenta): A massacre in Lisbon claims the lives of Portuguese Prime-Minister António Granjo and other politicians.

October 21, 1921 (Friday)

• A peace conference between Ireland and the United Kingdom begins in London.
• George Melford's wildly successful silent film The Sheik, which will propel its leading actor Rudolph Valentino to international stardom, is premiered in Los Angeles.

October 24, 1921 (Monday)

• The Spanish Army defeats rifkabyl rebels in Morocco.

October 29, 1921 (Saturday)

• Construction of the Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Project in Oregon, is completed.
• Centre College's American football team, led by quarterback Bo McMillin, defeats Harvard University 6–0 to break Harvard's five-year winning streak. For decades afterward, this is called "football's upset of the century."

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