(Saturday, November 12, 1921) — The Washington Arms Conference, the first international conference held in the United States and the first disarmament conference in history, opened today at Memorial Continental Hall in downtown Washington.
The conference was called by U.S. President Warren G. Harding and run by Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes.
(Sunday, October 30, 1921) — The Sheik, a silent movie directed by George Melford and starring Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, and Adolphe Menjou, premiered tonight in Los Angeles. It was based on the bestselling romance novel “The Sheik” by Edith Maude Hull.
World Series 1921
(Thursday, October 13, 1921) — The New York Giants won the 1921 World Series today, beating the New York Yankees 1-0 at the Polo Grounds in New York City in the eighth and deciding game (it was the last of the experimental best-five-of-nine series).
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(Sunday, August 14, 1921)— Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, writes about her husband’s illness in a letter. Franklin had developed acute symptoms of poliomyelitis four days before while visiting his summer home on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada.
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(Thursday, July 28, 1921) — 1920 Democratic vice presidential nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt visited a large Boy Scout encampment at Bear Mountain, New York, today, where it is believed he was infected by the polio virus.
