On This Day - What happened 21 March 1919 AD

On 21 March, Béla Kun led a successful communist coup d'état. Károlyi was deposed and arrested. Kun formed a social democratic, communist coalition government and proclaimed the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Days later the Communists purged the Social Democrats from the government.

On 21 March 1919, Romanian troops of the 39th Regiment occupied Tiraspol.