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March 4, 1921: Warren G. Harding inaugurated as 26th President of the United States
March 12-30, 1921: Britain's Cairo Conference determines future of Middle East
Voters in Upper Silesia cede territory to Germany (orange), Poland (green) and Czechoslovakia (purple) [1]

The following events occurred in March 1921:

March 1, 1921 (Tuesday)
  • The Kronstadt rebellion began at the naval fortress at Kronstadt, located on the island of Kotlin in the Soviet Union outside of St. Petersburg. [2]
  • The results of the first census of the Japanese Empire showed 56,961,140 people in Japan, and 77,005,112 overall (which included Korea, Formosa and Sakhalin). [3]
  • At the London Reparations Conference, Dr. Simons made a counteroffer on behalf of Germany to pay reparations of 30 billion gold marks (equivalent to $7.5 billion U.S. dollars), based on 20 billion already paid against a revised debt of 50 billion. The Allied Premiers, who had demanded an additional 226 billion gold marks ($56.5 billion), rejected the proposal. [4]
Rimet

March 2, 1921 (Wednesday)

March 3, 1921 (Thursday)
  • Almost 900 people died in the sinking of the Singapore ship SS Hong Moh as it approached Swatow after departing Hong Kong with 1,135 passengers and a crew of 48. At 7:20 in the evening, it struck the White Rocks. Rescue did not take place until March 5, after the ship had broken in two, and only 268 people survived.[11]
  • Congress passed a joint resolution declaring that the wartime emergency declared during World War One was over and repealed most of the emergency legislation passed in the U.S. during World War One, including the Sedition Act of 1918. President Wilson, on his last full day in office, signed the repeal of almost all of the "war laws" except for the creation of the War Finance Corporation and the sale of Liberty Bonds, and a prohibition against trading with the enemy nations. [12]
  • The Allied Prime Ministers delivered an ultimatum to Germany to accept, by March 7, the Allied reparations demand of 226 billion marks over 42 years, or face Allied occupation of western German cities. [13] [14]
  • On the last full day of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's term of office, the House of Representatives failed to get the two-thirds majority necessary to override the veto of the Fordney Emergency Tariff Bill, falling 11 votes short of the required number (201 in favor but 132 against). [15]
  • Poland and Romania signed their Convention on Defensive Alliance, pledging for five years to come to each other's defense in the event of an invasion.
  • The Danish Institute of Theoretical Physics (now the Niels Bohr Institute) opened at the University of Copenhagen under the direction of physicist Niels Bohr.[16]
Prince Hirohito abroad
  • Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan became the first member of Japanese royalty to depart the nation in more than 16 centuries. The Prince, future Emperor of Japan, boarded the battleship Katori at Yokohama on his voyage to Europe. [3]
  • The White House announced that outgoing U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby would form a private law practice upon leaving public service. The statement from the White House said, "The President made the announcement today that at the conclusion of his term of office he would resume the practice of law, forming a partnership with the Secretary of State, Bainbridge Colby. The firm will have offices in New York and Washington." Wilson had graduated from the University of Virginia College of Law in 1881 but had not practiced law in more than 35 years. [17]
  • Born: Yong Taek Chung, Korean taekwondo martial artist and the founder (in 1952) of the first Chung Do Kwan school outside Korea; in Seoul (d. 2005)
  • Died: General Auguste Mercier, 87, former French Minister of War who prosecuted the Dreyfus affair and attempted to destroy exonerating evidence.[18]

March 4, 1921 (Friday)
Wilson and Harding on the way to Harding's inauguration
  • Warren G. Harding was inaugurated the 29th President of the United States. The incoming Senate convened in a special session and confirmed all of Harding's cabinet nominations the same day. [19] Outgoing President Wilson rode in a car with Harding to the Capitol and had walked with the assistance of a cane into the building, but was overcome with fatigue and returned to his new residence of 2340 S Street N.W. before the inauguration ceremony began. [20]
  • Soviet Red Army troops entered the city of Sukhumi within the Georgian republic and aided Bolshevik sympathizers in setting up the Abkhazian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • Troops of the Army of Costa Rica crossed into Panama and occupied the border town of Guabito. [21]
  • Harding County, New Mexico was created from portions of Union County and Mora County and was named in honor of the new President of the United States on the day of his inauguration.
  • The new U.S. Congress voted to approve the creation of the first Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to house the remains of a member of the U.S. military who could not be identified. A member of the U.S. Army, who had been buried as an unknown casualty in France during World War One, was reinterred in Arlington National Cemetery on November 11, 1921.
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March 5, 1921 (Saturday)
  • The Belgian cargo ship Madimba sank in the North Sea after colliding with another Belgian ship, the Italier, and went down with the loss of all 43 of its crew.
  • Danilo Petrović-Njegoš, the former Crown Prince of Montenegro, pretender to the throne and leader of the government-in-exile, renounced his claim to the throne in favor of his 12-year-old nephew, Mihail Petrović-Njegoš. On March 6, Danilo renounced his renunciation and on March 7 he reaffirmed his original decision and abandoned all further claims to become King in the event that Montenegro was ever restored as a kingdom. Mihail would never return to his birthplace at Podgorica and would die in exile in France in 1986.

March 6, 1921 (Sunday)
  • Brigadier General H.R. Cumming of the British Army was ambushed and killed at West Cork in Ireland as he was on his way to preside over a court martial of IRA members. Cumming and his escort had just crossed from County Kerry into County Cork when the attack happened [22]
  • Germany responded to the Allied ultimatum by increasing its counteroffer of reparations to 90 billion gold marks over 30 years, and providing standardized housing materials for rebuilding damaged buildings in northern France. [23]
  • The Portuguese Communist Party was founded.

March 7, 1921 (Monday)
  • Mayor George Clancy (Seoirse Mic Ḟlannċaḋa) of Limerick, Ireland, and his predecessor Michael O'Callaghan, were shot at their homes while they were sleeping, in reprisal to the murder of General Cumming. [24]
  • Striking Croatian miners in Italy organized a government that they named the Albona Republic.
  • Born: Ruth "Bazy" Tankersley, American newspaper publisher as owner of the Washington Journal-Herald; in Chicago (d. 2013)
  • Died: Paul M. Potter, 68, American playwright

March 8, 1921 (Tuesday)
Dato (1856-1921)
Hale (1921-1990)
  • The assassination of Spain's Prime Minister Eduardo Dato led to Gabino Bugallal Araújo, a member of Dato's cabinet, serving as PM until Manuel Allendesalazar was appointed on March 13. .[25]
  • At 7:00 in the morning, French Army and Belgian Army troops moved into the Ruhr Area in Germany to enforce reparations payments, taking up occupation in the cities of Düsseldorf, Duisburg and Ruhrort. No resistance was encountered as 10,000 French troops and 5,000 Belgian troops crossed the border, while the British Army sent two squadrons of cavalry to assist in the occupation of Düsseldorf. Notices, in German, were posted on all public buildings of a proclamation by France's General Jean Degoutte, with the statement that "This occupation constitutes in no fashion a measure of hostility toward the population. Under the reserve of strict observance of orders which the military authority will judge indispensable to promulgate there will be no interference with the economic life of the region." [26]
  • U.S. Secretary of War John W. Weeks announced that U.S. troops would continue to occupy the Rhineland in Germany, having been placed there during the Wilson administration. [27]
  • The 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party opened in Moscow and lasted for nine days, ending on March 16.
  • Born:
  • Died: Eduardo Dato, 64, Prime Minister of Spain, assassinated by three Catalonian terrorists who pulled up next to his car as he was being driven home following a session of parliament[25]

March 9, 1921 (Wednesday)
  • The two college basketball teams with the best win-loss record that played against each other during 1920-1921 season, the 18 and 1 University of Pennsylvania Quakers and the 12 and 2 Penn State Nittany Lions faced each other at Weightman Hall on the Penn campus in Philadelphia [28] The game went into overtime after the teams were tied, 17 to 17, at the end of regulation. In extra time, the Lions' Horace "Pip" Koehler was fouled as he shot a successful field goal and, under the rules of the day, the designated free throw shooter, Wilson, was allowed two free throws even if the goal counted. Though Penn's Bill Grave made one long shot seconds later to close the gap to 21 to 19, the Penn State defense was able to prevent any more scoring to win the game. [29][30] Nevertheless, the Helms Foundation would retroactively name Pennsylvania, which would win its last three games for a 21 and 2 and which had defeated most of its opponents by double digits, the best team of the season. [31]

March 10, 1921 (Thursday)
  • Pittsburgh's KDKA-AM made the first live broadcast of a theatrical performance as it transmitted the sounds of an opera from the Davis Theater.
  • Australia's Department of Health began operations, with Walter Massy-Greene as the first Health Minister.
  • U.S. railroads announced that they would reduce wages to most employees by an average of 25 percent in order to save an estimated $600,000,000 per year.
Princess Helen and Prince Carol

March 11, 1921 (Friday)
Le Ernest Renan

March 12, 1921 (Saturday)
  • The Middle East Conference held in Cairo and Jerusalem, convened by British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill, opened in Cairo at the Semiramis Hotel to discuss the future of the British mandates in Mesopotamia and of Palestine. On March 24, the conference would move to Jerusualem.
  • After the failure of negotiations on reparations in London, Germany's Foreign Minister Walter Simons delivered his report to the Reichstag, which voted to approve his actions, 268 to 49. [34]
  • Following up on protests by its employees over the announcement of a wage cut, the Erie Railroad said that it would keep wages the same, but would lay off many of its employees. [3]
  • The British schooner Douglas Adams departed Lisbon in Portugal to travel to Twillingate in Newfoundland; it was never seen again and was presumed to have gone down with its entire crew.
  • Born: Lieutenant Colonel Nikolai Shchetinin, Soviet Army military officer and Hero of the Soviet Union for his bravery during World War II; in Mikhayevsky, Vologda Governorate (d. 1968)

March 13, 1921 (Sunday)

March 14, 1921 (Monday)
  • The play A Bill of Divorcement, written by Clemence Dane as a West End theatre production, premiered in at St Martin's Theatre in London for the first of 402 performances. [36] [37] Lady Dane's futuristic social commentary, set 12 years in the future in a time when women would be allowed to file divorce proceedings, included in the program "The action passes on Christmas Day, 1933. The audience is asked to imagine that the recommendations of the Majority Report of the Royal Commission on Divorce v. Matrimonial Causes have become the law of the land." [38]
  • Died: Patrick Moran (33), Thomas Whelan (22), Frank Flood (19), Patrick Doyle (29), Thomas Bryan and Bernard Ryan, all members of the Irish Republican Army, executed in prison in Dublin after being convicted of treason against the crown against the crown in a court martial. A crowd of 20,000 people gathered outside the prison walls to pray for the men. [39]

March 15, 1921 (Tuesday)
Talaat Pasha
  • Former Ottoman Grand Vizier Talaat Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks party and identified as a war criminal by the Allied Commission, was assassinated in Berlin by an Armenian student in reprisal for the 1916 genocide. Talaat, one of the three leaders of the Young Turk Movement, had been walking with his wife when the assassin, who had been following the couple, tapped him on the shoulder, claimed to be a friend, and then shot both of them with a revolver. Shot through the head, Talaat died instantly. The assassin, Soghomon Tehlirian, was seized by witnesses until police could arrive.[40][41]

March 16, 1921 (Wednesday)
  • The Treaty of Moscow was signed between the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and the Soviet Union. [42]
  • The 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party adjourned with the adoption of numerous closing resolutions. Grigory Zinoviev, a protege of Vladimir Lenin, was made a full member of the party's Politburo and became the chief rival to Joseph Stalin for control of the Party after Lenin's death.
  • The Bolshevik government in the Armenian SSR was overthrown in Yerevan. [41]
  • The Allied Reparations Commission demanded that Germany pay one billion gold marks by March 23, and 12 billion marks by May 1, as its first installment of reparation payments. [43] Germany responded on March 23 that it could not afford to pay the installment even if it felt it was owed. [41]
  • The Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement was signed as the United Kingdom became the first western nation to decide to begin commercial relations with the Bolshevik government. [44]
  • The Soviet Union recognized the government of the Republic of Turkey and recognized Istanbul as the capital. [41]
  • The U.S. government issued an order forbidding U.S. armed forces personnel from wearing their military uniforms while participating in the St. Patrick's Day scheduled the next day in Boston. The troops were celebrating Evacuation Day at the same time that American supporters of Irish independence were celebrating St. Patrick. [45]
  • Baseball team owner Charles Comiskey sent formal notices of unconditional release to the eight former Chicago White Sox players charged in the "Black Sox Scandal". Comiskey had indefinitely suspended the eight men on September 26. By 1921, only two of the players were still under contract with the White Sox for 1921— Shoeless Joe Jackson and Buck Weaver. [46]

March 17, 1921 (Thursday)
  • The Kronstadt Rebellion was suppressed by the Soviet government as the 60,000 troops of the Seventh Red Army retook control of the fortress at 2:00 in the afternoon. The surviving members of the remaining garrison of about 10,000 Soviet Navy sailors and 5,000 soldiers either surrendered or fled towards the border with Finland or surrendered. Roughly 800 soldiers arrived in Helsingfors (now Helsinki) by the end of the day. Before evacuating to safety, the Kronstadt Revolutionary Committee destroyed the Soviet Navy warships Petropavlovsk and Sebastopol. [47]
  • Andrew Bonar Law resigned as Leader of the Opposition in the British House of Commons. Austen Chamberlain was elected on March 21 to succeed him. [41]
  • Radio station 9JR began broadcasting in the railroad junction town of Tuscola, Illinois, initially with the concept of broadcasting current grain price information to subscribing customers.
  • Negotiators for the Bolshevik Soviet government and the Menshevik Georgian government negotiated a ceasefire effectively clearing the way for the Soviet Army to take over the rest of Georgia while allowing the government leaders to safely evacuate to France. Georgia's Defense Minister Grigol Lordkipanidze and Soviet Communist representative Avel Enukidze concluded the agreement in Kutaisi
  • The parliament of Poland adopted a new Constitution, to take effect on June 1 and to formally declare Poland to be a republic governed by a president. The supreme law would be superseded on April 23, 1935 by a third constitution.
  • Died: Frank W. Gunsaulus, 65, American Congregationalist minister and educator who founded the Armour Institute in 1893 by persuading meatpacking magnate Philip Danforth Armour, Sr. to donate the money. Armour Institute would merge with Lewis Institute in 1940 to create the Illinois Institute of Technology.

March 18, 1921 (Friday)
  • The Peace of Riga was signed between Poland and the Soviet Union, bringing an end to the Polish–Soviet War on terms unfavorable to the Soviets, partitioning the territories in Belarus and the Ukraine between Poland and the Soviet Union. [48]
  • In the wake of the recent destruction of its dirigible R-54 and a government decision to pursue development of airplanes rather than lighter-than-air aircraft, the British Air Service offered to give 10 of its largest dirigibles to any syndicate willing to operate them for research. [49]
  • The 1921 Grand National steeplechase was won by the only horse that did not fall during the race, Shaun Spadah.
  • Born:
  • Died: Concepción Lombardo, 85, widow of the former President of Mexico and the author of a bestselling memoir.

March 19, 1921 (Saturday)
  • The Crossbarry ambush, the largest battle of the Irish War of Independence by number of participants, took place near Crossbarry, County Cork as Tom Barry and 103 IRA volunteers fought their way out of being surrounded by a force of 1,200 British troops. [50]
  • In Chicago, a dust explosion at the world's largest grain elevator killed at least four Armour Company employees, shattered windows within a five-mile (eight-kilomter) radius from the intersection of 122nd Street and Torrence Avenue, and caused damage estimated at $10,000,000 (equivalent to $142,000,000 in 2020) including the destruction of 7.5 million bushels (roughly 190,000 metric tons) of corn. [51] The grain elevator itself, owned by the Northwestern Terminal Company, was destroyed within seconds.
  • Born: Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician who died on live television during a performance; in Caerphilly, Glamorgan[52]

March 20, 1921 (Sunday)
  • A plebiscite was held in Upper Silesia on whether to become Poland or remain part of Germany. [53] From the German point of view, the outcome of the vote was considered critical because the loss of the territory would make it more difficult to meet the Allied Reparations Commission terms and lead to the collapse of the nation's industrial economy. [54] The New York Times noted at the time that the fate "of the whole of Upper Silesia is not actually decided by the plebiscite. That is the task of the Supreme Council, which in making a decision has to have reard not only to the voice of the population, but also the geographical and economic conditions of administration... The plebiscite results present them with a puzzle requiring all their wit and ingenuity to solve." [55] Based on the results of individual towns and villages, the Council provided for most of Silesia to remain part of Germany, though the eastern section went to Poland and a southwestern section (including Hultschin/Hlučín and already been ceded to Czechoslovakia.

March 21, 1921 (Monday)
  • The Soviet Union implemented its New Economic Policy (Novaya Ekonomicheskaya Politika or NEP) by decree of Vladimir Lenin and the All-Russian Communist Party. The system was described as a free-market economy under the control of the state. The NEP included a new tax on food production, the prodovolstvenniy nalog, abbreviated to prodnalog. [56] Western observers expressed doubt Lenin's sincerity [57] and after his death, Joseph Stalin would abandon the NEP in favor of a transition to collectivization of agriculture and a shift to industrialization.
  • At Batumi, the Constituent Assembly of Georgia held its last session and voted to abandon the country to the Bolshevik invaders.
  • The Mandate for Palestine was amended by Britain to provide for a Palestinian kingdom of Transjordan on the opposite side of the Jordan River from the Zionist state proposed in 1918.
  • The Headford Ambush took place as the Irish Republican Army stopped and attacked a train carrying a regiment of 30 of the British Army's Royal Fusiliers, killing nine of them. [58] The Headford Junction was located in County Kerry near Killarney.
  • Born: Vasily Stalin, later Vasily Dzhugashvili, Soviet general and the son of Joseph Stalin, whose titles were stripped from him after Stalin's death in 1953 (died 1962)[59]

March 22, 1921 (Tuesday)
  • The U.S. Navy airship A-5597 departed the Pensacola Naval Air Station on a training mission and sent its last report a few hours later from a point 20 miles off shore from St. Andrews Bay. [60] The crew was not seen again, although the wreckage of the gondola was found on April 8. [61]
  • U.S. President Harding called a special session of Congress for April 11. [41]
  • A court in Germany convicted two American bounty hunters of false arrest in their attempt to pick up fugitive American Grover Bergdoll. [62] Germany released the two men on March 31.
  • Turkey's new Republican government adopted "İstiklal Marşı" ("The Independence March") as Turkey's national anthem.
  • Died: E. W. Hornung, 55, English author, creator of the "A.J. Raffles" series of novels.

March 23, 1921 (Wednesday)

March 24, 1921 (Thursday)
  • In an event "said to be unprecedented in Federal prison annals", convicted Socialist politician Eugene V. Debs was released temporarily from the federal prison in Atlanta to travel, unguarded, to Washington DC, so that he could present his case for a presidential pardon to U.S. Attorney General Harry Daugherty. The furlough from prison, granted by the federal prison warden with the permission of President Harding and Daugherty, allowed Debs to travel "on his own personal recognizance and on his word that he would come direct to Washington and return to prison immediately after the conference." [64] After arriving by train at 10:00 in the morning, dressed in a regular suit, Debs conferred privately with the Attorney General for a little more than three hours, then left "at 3:30 o'clock with the understanding that he would return at once to Atlanta." Debs reported back to the Atlanta federal prison the next afternoon, where he still had seven years remaining on a ten-year sentence. In December, Harding granted Debs a presidential pardon.
  • The Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act 1921 was given royal assent and took effect immediately, providing for special tribunals to be set up by the British Secretary of State for criminal investigations.
  • Thirty-one people were killed and 100 injured when a nitroglycerin bomb exploded in Milan at the Kursaal Diana, where a crowd of theatre goers was watching a performance of the operetta Die blaue Mazur by Franz Lehár. [65]
  • Rioting by German Communists in Eisleben and in Hettstadt killed 30 people near Hamburg.[66] The Communist uprising was halted entirely by March 26. [41]
  • Born:
  • Died: Archbishop James Gibbons of Baltimore, 87, the second American to ever be selected as Roman Catholic Cardinal. [67]

March 25, 1921 (Friday)
  • U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes replied to a March 22 request by the Soviet Union for a trade agreement, stating that the U.S. would not resume relations until "a regime of productive order" was established in Moscow. Secretary Hughes commented that the U.S. government "views with deep sympathy and grave concern the plight of the people of Russia" but added that "It is manifest to this Government that in existing circumstances there is no assurance for the development of trade." Hughes added that "if fundamental changes are contemplated, involving due regard for the protection of persons and property and the establishment of conditions essential to the maintenance of commerce, this Government will be glad to have convincing evidence of the consummation of such changes, and until this evidence is supplied this Government is unable to perceive that there is any proper basis for considering trade relations." "Hughes Rejects Soviet Proposals; No Trade Until Moscow Reforms", The New York Times, March 26, 1921, p1

March 26, 1921 (Saturday)
former Emperor Karl I, King Karoly IV

March 27, 1921 (Sunday)
  • A fire in Tokyo destroyed 1,000 buildings and caused $12.5 million in damages. [41]
  • Karoly IV showed up at the former royal palace as the regent Admiral Miklos Horthy was at Easter dinner and attempted to persuade Horthy to turn the throne over to him.
  • Died: Mouha ou Hammou Zayani, 63, Moroccan Berber military leader, Qaid of the Zayanes, was killed in battle against his son at Azelag N'Tazemourte.

March 28, 1921 (Monday)

March 29, 1921 (Tuesday)
  • Charles IV, the last monarch of Austria-Hungary, returned to Budapest from his exile in Switzerland in an effort to regain his throne as King of Hungary, and conferred with the regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy. [41]
  • Britain's leftist Independent Labour Party voted, 521 to 97, to reject the 21 points demanded by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for membership in Comintern. [41]
  • The Republic of China signed a contract with the Federal Telegraph Company of the U.S. to build the most powerful radio station in the world. [41]
  • Born: Admiral R. E. Martadinata, co-founder of the Indonesian Navy (killed in helicopter crash 1966)
  • Died: John Burroughs, 84, American naturalist and author, while travelling by train through Ohio[68]

March 30, 1921 (Wednesday)
  • The Cairo Conference, held initially in Cairo, Egypt and then in the British Mandate of Palestine, came to a close in Jerusalem.

March 31, 1921 (Thursday)

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  53. "Army Ready For Silesian Plebiscite Today", The New York Times, March 20, 1921, p1
  54. "Germany Faces Supreme Crisis— If She Loses Upper Silesia Inability to Meet Allied Terms May Become Real", by Charles H. Grasty, The New York Times, March 21, 1921, p1
  55. "Germany Wins in Upper Silesia by Big Majority", The New York Times, March 22, 1921, p1
  56. "Can't Make Socialism Real Among Peasants— So Lenin Has Confiscation Abolished and Substitutes Taxation in Kind and Free Commerce", The New York Times, March 22, 1921, p1
  57. "Paris Rejects Theory of Lenin's Conversion— Thinks His Attitude of 'Renouncing Bolshevism' Is Merely a Piece of Camouflage", The New York Times, March 23, 1921, p2
  58. "Sinn Fein Bands Attack Loyalists; Kill Ulster Unionists and Set Fire to Houses— Two Brothers Hold Off 150 Attackers", The New York Times, March 23, 1921, p7
  59. Robert Service; Professor of Russian History Robert Service (2005). Stalin: A Biography. Harvard University Press. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-674-01697-2.
  60. "Lost Balloonists May Still Be Saved", The New York Times, March 26, 1921, p1
  61. "Missing Naval Balloon Is Found in Gulf; But There Is No Trace of the Five Pilots", The New York Times, April 10, 1921
  62. "Convict Americans Who Found Bergdoll", The New York Times, March 22, 1921, p1
  63. "28 More Killed in New Outbreak of Irish Violence", The New York Times, March 24, 1921, p1
  64. "Debs, Minus Guard, Visits Washington to Plead His Cause; Dressed as Civilian, He Slips Into Capital Unnoticed for Long Talk With Daugherty", The New York Times, March 25, 1921, p1
  65. "31 Dead, 100 Hurt in Milan Explosion", The New York Times, March 25, 1921, p1
  66. "30 Die in Hamburg, Saxony Quieter; Moscow Blamed for German Riots", The New York Times, March 25, 1921, p1
  67. "Cardinal Gibbons Dies in 87th Year; Many Pay Tribute", The New York Times, March 25, 1921, p1
  68. "John Burroughs Dies On A Train. Famous Naturalist's Last Words Were: "How Far Are We From Home?" Was Returning From West. Body Taken to His Rural Retreat. Henry Ford and Others Pay High Tribute to Him" (PDF). New York Times. March 30, 1921. Retrieved 2015-04-23.


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