1921

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1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).

Contents

Events

January

January 1 - In American football, the University of California defeats Ohio State 28-0 in the Rose Bowl.
January 2 - The first religious radio broadcast (KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
January 2 - Spanish liner Santa Isabel sinks off Villa Garcia - 244 dead
January 2 - DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park San Francisco opens.
January 20 - Royal Navy K-boat K5 sinks in the English Channel with all 56 hands onboard.

February

February 25 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
February 27 - The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is formed in Vienna
February 28 - Russian sailors rebel in Kronstadt - On

March

March 1 - The city Kiryu, located in Gunma, Japan, is founded.
March 4 - Change of US presidency from Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) to Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
March 6 - The Portuguese Communist Party is founded.
March 8 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
March 13 - Russian White Army captures Mongolia from China
March 17 - The Red Army crushes the Kronstadt rebellion and a number of sailors flee to Finland
March 17 - Marie Stopes opens the first birth control clinic in London, England. The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
March 18 - The second Peace of Riga ends the Polish-Soviet war. The permanent border is established between the Polish and Soviet states.

April

April 11 - The Emirate of Transjordan is created, with Abdullah I as emir.
April 14 - In Britain, labour unions for mining, railway and transportation workers call for a strike - government threatens to call in the army
April 24 - Referendum in Tyrol supports joining to Germany

May

May 1-May 7 - Riots in Palestine of May, 1921
2 May-5 July - Third Silesian Uprising, the Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans
May 5 - Only 13 spectators attend the soccer match between Leicester City and Stockport County, the lowest attendance in The Football League's history.
May 6 - General strike begins in Norway
May 8 - Death penalty abolished in Sweden
May 14 - May 17 - Violent anti-European riots in Cairo and Alexandria
May 19 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the U.S. Congress establishing national quotas on immigration.
May 24 - Elections are held for the first time for the new Northern Ireland Parliament.
May 31 - Tulsa Race Riot: A civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma,USA, the official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.

June

June 1 - Tulsa Race Riot of 1921: A race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma kills 85 people.
June 26 - In Britain, rain ends 100 days of drought.

July

July 1 - Official founding date for the Communist Party of China
July 1 - Coal strike ends in England
July 11 - The Irish War of Independence comes to an end when a truce is signed between the British Government and the Irish forces.
July 11 - Red Army captures Mongolia from White Army and establishes Mongolian People's Republic
July 14 - A Massachusetts jury finds Nichola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti guilty of first degree murder following a widely-publicized trial.
July 18 - The first BCG vaccination against tuberculosis
July 22 - Irish Truce declared in Britain
July 26 - US President Warren G. Harding receives Princess Fatima of Afghanistan - and Stanley Clifford Weyman...
July 29 - Adolf Hitler becomes Chairman of the Nazi Party
July 27 - Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.

August

August - The United States formally ends World War I, declaring a peace with Germany
August 5 - First radio broadcast of baseball game; Harold Arlin announced Pirates-Phillies game from Forbes Field over Westinghouse KDKA Pittsburgh
August 11 - 35 degree Celsius in Breslau - heat wave continues elsewhere in Europe as well
August 23 - King Faisal is crowned in Baghdad
August 24 - Airship ZR 2 explodes during a test flight near Hull, England - 41 dead
August 26 - Rising prices cause riots in Munich
August 29 - Assassination of German politician Matthias Erzberger causes the government to declare martial law.

September

September 1 - Poplar Strike in London - 9 members of Poplar borough council are arrested
September 7 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant is held.
September 8 - 16-year-old Margaret Gorman won the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
September 12 - Lotta Svärd founded in Finland.
September 21 - Oppau explosion happened at BASF's nitrate factory in Oppau, Germany - 500—600 dead.

October

October 10 - Teaching at the University of Szeged started in Hungary.
October 21 - Peace conference between Irish and United Kingdom begins in London.
October 24 - Spanish army defeats rifkabyls.
October 29 - Construction of the Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project completed.
October 29 - Centre College's football team, led by quarterback Bo McMillin, defeats Harvard University 6-0 to snap Harvard's five-year winning streak. For decades afterward, this is called "football's upset of the century."

November

November 9 - Riots in Reykjavík - most of the small police force is injured.
November 11 - During an Armistice Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, the Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding.

December

December 1 - Rising prices cause riots in Vienna.
December 6 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State is signed in London. See Ireland/History.
December 13 - In the Four Power Treaty on Insular Possessions Japan, the United States, United Kingdom, and France agree to recognize the status quo in the Pacific.
December 29 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Canada's tenth prime minister.

unknown dates

Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to enter Canadian parliament
Invention of the vibraphone.
Abkhazia becomes an autonomous republic within the Soviet Union.
Edward Harper the ' father of broadcasting ' in Ceylon arrives in Colombo to take up his post as Chief Engineer of the Ceylon Telegraph Department.

Fictitious Events

1921 is a song on the album Tommy by The Who.

Births

Date unknown

Norma Macmillan, voice actress (d. 2001)

January

January 5 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)
January 5 - Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
January 10 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d. 2004)
January 19 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
January 27 - Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)
January 31 - Carol Channing, American actress
January 31 - Mario Lanza, American tenor (d. 1959)

February

February 4 - Betty Friedan, American feminist (d. 2006)
February 4 - K. R. Narayanan, President of India (d. 2005)
February 5 - John Pritchard, English conductor (d. 1989)
February 11 - Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (d. 1996)
February 11 - Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (d. 2006)
February 14 - Hugh Downs, American game show host and journalist
February 20 - Buddy Rogers, American professional wrestler (d. 1992)
February 22 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
February 25 - Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (assassinated) (d. 1970)
February 28 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006)

March

March 1 - Jack Clayton, British film director
March 1 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (d. 1983)
March 1 - Richard Wilbur, American poet
March 2 - Robert Simpson, English composer (d. 1997)
March 3 - Paul Guimard, French writer (d. 2004)
March 4 - Joan Greenwood, English actress and director (d. 1987)
March 4 - Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born U.S. composer, performer, ethnomusicologist, and educator
March 5 - Elmer Valo, Czech Major League Baseball player (d. 1998)
March 8 - Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer
March 8 - Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)
March 11 - Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005)
March 12 - Giovanni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (d. 2003)
March 12 - Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (d. 1986)
March 13 - Al Jaffee, American cartoonist
March 13 - Cyril Poole, English cricketer (d. 1996)
March 20 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer (d. 1973)
March 21 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (d. 1986)
March 25 - Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
March 28 - Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)

April

April 1 - Beau Jack, American boxer (d. 2000)
April 8 - Franco Corelli, Italian opera singer (d. 2003)
April 10 - Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (d. 2003)
April 14 - Thomas Schelling, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 15 - Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1995)
April 16 - Peter Ustinov, English actor and director (d. 2004)
April 23 - Warren Spahn, baseball player (d. 2003)
April 25 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006)

May

May 2 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (d. 1992)
May 5 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
May 6 - Erich Fried, Austrian author (d. 1988)
May 9 - Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
May 9 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)
May 11 - Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician
May 12 - Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986)
May 12 - Farley Mowat, Canadian writer and naturalist
May 17 - Dennis Brain, English French horn player (d. 1957)
May 18 - Sir Michael Epstein, British medical researcher
May 19 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999)
May 20 - Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (d. 1947)
May 20 - Hal Newhouser, baseball player (d. 1998)
May 21 - Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (declined) (d. 1989)
May 23 - James Blish, American science fiction author (d. 1975)
May 25 - Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
May 25 - James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher
May 26 - Stan Mortensen, English footballer (d. 1991)
May 28 - Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)

June

June 1 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (d. 1985)
June 8 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d. 1993)
June 10 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
June 15 - Errol Garner, American jazz musician (d. 1977)
June 25 - Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer
June 26 - Violette Szabo, French World War II heroine (d. 1945)
June 28 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)

July

July 4 - Gerard Debreu, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
July 4 - Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (d. 2003)
July 6 - Nancy Davis Reagan, wife of U.S President Ronald Reagan
July 10 - Harvey Ball, American designer (d. 2001)
July 11 - Ilse Werner, German actress (d. 2005)
July 13 - Friedrich Peter, Austrian poltitician (d. 2005)
July 14 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996)
July 14 - Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 15 - Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 17 - František Zvarík, Slovakian actor
July 17 - Hannah Szenes, Hungarian World War II heroine (d. 1944)
July 18 - John Glenn, American astronaut
July 19 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
July 22 - William Roth, U.S. Senator (d. 2003)
July 30 - Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (d. 2005)

August

August 4 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
August 8 - John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (d. 1979)
August 9 - J. James Exon Governor of Nebraska and U.S. Senator (d. 2005)
August 13 - Barney Liddell, American musician, The Lawrence Welk Show (d. 2003)
August 19 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991)
August 23 - Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
August 25 - Monty Hall, Canadian actor and game show host
August 25 - Brian Moore, Northern Irish-born writer (d. 1999)

September

September 3 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (d. 1971)
September 8 - Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer (d. 2001)
September 12 - Stanisław Lem, Polish science fiction writer
September 30 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress

October

October 2 - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
October 5 - Bill Willis, American football player
October 13 - Yves Montand, French singer and actor (d. 1991)
October 17 - Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet gymnast (d. 2001)
October 18 - Jesse Helms, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
October 19 - Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (d. 1995)
October 21 - Malcolm Arnold, music composer
October 22 - Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
October 25 - King Michael of Romania

November

November 3 - Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
November 5 - Princess Fawzia of Egypt
November 11 - Ron Greenwood, English football manager
November 14 - Brian Keith, American actor (d. 1997)
November 22 - Rodney Dangerfield, American actor and comedian (d. 2004)
November 23 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
November 27 - Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. 1992)

December

December 3 - Phyllis Curtin, American soprano
December 6 - Otto Graham, American football player (d. 2003)
December 7 - Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian Spiritual Leader
December 26 - Steve Allen, American actor, composer, comedian, and author (d. 2000)

Deaths

January 1 - Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
February 8 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (b. 1842)
February 26 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840)
February 27 - Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b. 1871)
March 2 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro (b. 1841)
April 27 - Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
May 5 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
June 5 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
August 2 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
August 19 - Georges Darien, French writer (b. 1862)
September 2 - Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
September 11 - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
September 27 - Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854)
October 25 - Bat Masterson, American gunfighter
November 4 - Hara Takashi 19th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1856)
November 28 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian religious leader (b. 1844)
December 10 - George Ashlin, Irish architect (b. 1837)
December 16 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835)
December 31 - Boies Penrose, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (b. 1860)

Nobel prizes

Physics - Albert Einstein
Chemistry - Frederick Soddy
Medicine - not awarded
Literature - Anatole France
Peace - Karl Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lous Lange

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