LIFE 1921
Historical Highlights from 1921 :
- First burial at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
- The Sheik, debuts and establishes movie star Rudolph Valentino as cinema’s best-known lover.
- Vitamin D is discovered and shown to prevent rickets.
- White Castle hamburger restaurant opens in Wichita, Kansas, the foundation of the world’s first fast food chain.
- The vibraphone in its original form is invented.
- Russian famine: 5 million die.
- The first Lowe’s opens in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
- Mobs of white residents attack black residents and businesses in Greenwood District, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Between 100 to 300 died, 1,250 homes are destroyed and roughly 6,000 African Americans imprisoned in one of the worst incidents of mass racial violence in the United States.
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