1921

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Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents (full)

1 Events of 1921

- Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

- May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug.

- Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec.

- Undated ^. Ongoing ^. Fictional

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Nobel prizes

5 See also - Notes - External links

[edit] Events of 1921

[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 8 - Occupation of Düsseldorf, Rurhort and Duisburg.
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 Nicola 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 26 - 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.
November 14 - Foundation of the Spanish Communist Party.

[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

Abkhazia becomes an autonomous republic within the Soviet Union.
Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to enter Canadian parliament.
Beginning of regular radio broadcasting service in Italy.
Edward Harper, the ' father of broadcasting ' in Ceylon, arrives in Colombo to take up his post as Chief Engineer of the Ceylon Telegraph Department.
Invention of the vibraphone.
Tau Epsilon Chi Jewish High School Sorority (TEX) is founded in Atlantic City, NJ.

[edit] Ongoing

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

[edit] Fictitional

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] 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)
Coptic calendar	1637 – 1638
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
v • d • e

[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 24 - Abe Vigoda, American actor
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 3 - Richard Adler, American Broadway composer
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
October 26 - Frances Scott Fitzgerald, Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. (d. 1986)

[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)