Timeline September 1921

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• 1921 Battle of Sakarya Turkish forces halt the Greek advance toward Ankara Turkish nationalist forces under Mustafa Kemal halted a Greek offensive at the Sakarya River, ending the Greek army's deepest advance into Anatolia during the Greco-Turkish War. The three-week battle marked a turning point in the Turkish War of Independence. Mustafa Kemal was afterward given the title Gazi and promoted to marshal.
• 1921 – 1995 W.F. Hermans Novelist, essayist, geographer, 1921-1995 Willem Frederik Hermans (1921-1995) — one of the three great Dutch postwar writers, alongside Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve. Novelist, essayist, geographer and polemicist. Author of The Darkroom of Damocles (1958), Beyond Sleep (1966) and An Untouched House (1952). His work is defined by epistemological nihilism: the conviction that certainty is impossible and that human existence is fundamentally without meaning or redemption.
• 1921 W.F. Hermans born in Amsterdam Willem Frederik Hermans is born in Amsterdam to Johan Hermans, a grammar-school teacher, and Rika Eggelte. The family lives in the "Old West" district in an apartment block built specifically to house teachers. His father is ambitious for his children and sends them both to the prestigious Barlaeus Gymnasium.
• 1921 First Miss America pageant Atlantic City beauty contest crowns Margaret Gorman Atlantic City held its first Miss America pageant, then called the "Inter-City Beauty" contest, as part of a fall festival aimed at extending the summer tourist season. Sixteen-year-old Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C. won the inaugural title. The contest grew into an annual American media institution.
• 1921 – 2006 Stanisław Lem Sci-Fi Visionary Philosopher and world-renowned author of Solaris.
• 1921 – 2007 Deborah Kerr (1921-2007) Scottish actress known for refined roles in Black Narcissus, From Here to Eternity and The King and I, with six Oscar nominations.
• 1921 Deborah Kerr born in Helensburgh Deborah Kerr is born in Helensburgh.