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  • Campobello Island, Canada
    Aug, 1921
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Illness

    Campobello Island, Canada
    Aug, 1921

    While the Roosevelts were vacationing at Campobello Island in August 1921, Roosevelt fell ill. His main symptoms were fever; symmetric, ascending paralysis; facial paralysis; bowel and bladder dysfunction; numbness and hyperesthesia; and a descending pattern of recovery.




  • Zagreb, Croatia
    Tuesday Aug 2, 1921
    Josip Broz Tito

    The assassination of Milorad Drašković

    Zagreb, Croatia
    Tuesday Aug 2, 1921

    After the assassination of Milorad Drašković, the Yugoslav Minister of the Interior, by a young communist named Alija Alijagić on 2 August 1921, the CPY was declared illegal under the Yugoslav State Security Act of 1921.




  • London, Paris and Brussels
    Aug, 1921
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Second Pan-African Congress

    London, Paris and Brussels
    Aug, 1921

    Du Bois traveled to Europe in 1921 to attend the second Pan-African Congress. The assembled black leaders from around the world issued the London Resolutions and established a Pan-African Association headquarters in Paris.[170] Under Du Bois's guidance, the resolutions insisted on racial equality, and that Africa be ruled by Africans (not, as in the 1919 congress, with the consent of Africans).




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