1921

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

[edit] Events

[edit] 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.
January 21 - The Italian Communist Party is founded in Livorno.
January 21 - Women are allowed to vote in Sweden.

[edit] February

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

[edit] 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.
March 23 - Plebiscite in Silesia votes for re-annexation to Germany.

[edit] 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 16 - Foundation of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
April 24 - Referendum in Tyrol supports joining to Germany

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] July

July 1 - Official founding date for the Communist Party of China.
July 1 - Coal strike ends in England.
July 2 - U.S. President Warren Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring an end to America's state of war with Germany, Austria and Hungary.
July 4 - New conservative government formed in Italy by Ivanoe Bonomi.
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 21 - Rif War: Spanish troops are dealt a crushing defeat at the Battle of Annual against Abd el-Krim.
July 22 - Irish Truce declared in Britain.
July 26 - US President Warren G. Harding receives Princess Fatima of Afghanistan - and Stanley Clifford Weyman.
July 27 - Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.

July 29 - Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of the Nazi Party.

[edit] 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 degrees 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] October

October 8 - First Sweetest Day staged in Cleveland, Ohio.
October 10 - Teaching at the University of Szeged started in Hungary.
October 19 - A massacre in Lisbon claims the lives of Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians.
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."

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 23 - Visva-Bharati University inaugurated.
December 29 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Canada's tenth prime minister.

[edit] Undated

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.

[edit] Fictitious Events

1921 is a song on the album Tommy by The Who.
Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining, an adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same title, exits the final scene with a photograph dated in year 1921.

[edit] Ongoing events

Ethnic cleansing in Turkey:
- Assyrian Genocide (1914–1922)
- Pontic Greek Genocide (1916–1923)

[edit] Births

**1921 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1921 MCMXXI
Ab urbe condita	2674
Armenian calendar	1370 ԹՎ ՌՅՀ
Bahá'í calendar	77 – 78
Buddhist calendar	2465
Chinese calendar	4557/4617-11-23 (庚申年十一月廿三日) — to — 4558/4618-12-3 (辛酉年十二月初三日)
Ethiopian calendar	1913 – 1914
Hebrew calendar	5681 – 5682
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1976 – 1977
- Shaka Samvat	1843 – 1844
- Kali Yuga	5022 – 5023
Holocene calendar	11921
Iranian calendar	1299 – 1300
Islamic calendar	1339 – 1340
Japanese calendar	Taishō 10 (大正10年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2581 (皇紀2581年)
- Jōmon Era	11921
Julian calendar	1966
Korean calendar	4254
Thai solar calendar	2464
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[edit] January-February

January 5 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)
January 5 - Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
January 9 - William 'Billy Batts' Devino (d. 1970)
January 9 - Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)
January 10 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d. 2004)
January 14 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)
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 and actor (d. 1959)

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 - Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (d. 2006)
February 14 - Hugh Downs, American game show host and journalist
February 16 - Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (d. 1981)
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 26 - Betty Hutton, American actress (d. 2007)
February 28 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006)

[edit] March-April

March 1 - Jack Clayton, British film director (d. 1995)
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 - Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born U.S. composer, performer, ethnomusicologist and educator
March 4 - Joan Greenwood, British actress and director (d. 1987)
March 4 - Wilson Harris, Guyanese writer
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 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 23 - Janet Blair, American actress (d. 2007)
April 25 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006)

[edit] May-June

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 23 - Humphrey Lyttelton, British jazz musician and radio personality
May 25 - Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
May 25 - James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher (d. 2000)
May 26 - Stan Mortensen, English footballer (d. 1991)
May 28 - Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)

June 1 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (d. 1985)
June 3 - Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete
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 (d. 2007)
June 26 - Violette Szabo, French World War II heroine (d. 1945)
June 28 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)

[edit] July-August

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 (d. 1996)
July 15 - Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
July 17 - František Zvarík, Slovakian actor
July 17 - Hannah Szenes, Hungarian World War II heroine (d. 1944)
July 18 - John Glenn, American astronaut
July 18 - Aaron T. Beck, American psychiatrist
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 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 18 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian
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)

[edit] September-October

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 (d. 2006)
September 14 - Dario Vittori, Argentinean actor (d. 2001)
September 30 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress

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 (d. 2006)
October 22 - Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
October 25 - King Michael of Romania

[edit] November-December

November 3 - Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
November 5 - Princess Fawzia of Egypt
November 6 - James Jones, American writer (d. 1977)
November 11 - Ron Greenwood, English football manager (d. 2006)
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)
November 29 - Jackie Stallone, American astrologer and mother of Sylvester Stallone

December 3 - Phyllis Curtin, American soprano
December 6 - Otto Graham, American football player (d. 2003)
December 26 - Steve Allen, American actor, composer, comedian, and author (d. 2000)