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1921

Louisiana Under Prohibition | The Long Dynesty Begins

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1921

South America & Caribbean:Events of this year in this region influencing Louisiana.
North America:Events in North America this year influencing Louisiana.
Europe: Events in Europe this year influencing Louisiana.
January 1921
February 1921
On a Saturday night in February 1921 a four inch cannonball crashes through the front wall of Mrs. A. Stenhouse, 73, of 317 Alix Street in Algiers. Apparently several young pranksters had loaded a Civil War Era cannon that had been placed in Jackson Square for demonstration purposes and fired it across the river. Windows and glass light were broken in the square.
March 1921
April 1921
May 1921
June 1921
July 1921
August 1921
September 1921
October 1921
November 1921
December 1921
Louis Armstrong returns to New Orleans and joins Papa Celestin s Tuxedo Brass Band. Indian Camp Plantation home, near Carville in Iberville Parish, built in the 1850 s, and the site of the Louisiana State Leprosarium since 1894. Is acquired by the U.S. Public Health Service. It is now known as the National Hansen's Disease Center.
DEATHS

Murphy James Foster
Luther Egbert Hall
Pickney Benton Stewart Pinchback

BIRTHS

ELECTIONS

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