1921
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'''1921''' '''(MCMXXI)''' was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
Events
January 1 - In American football, 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 class submarine|K-boat ''HMS K5|K5'' sinks in the English Channel with all 56 hands
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 17 the Red Army crushes the rebellion and number of sailors flee to Finland
March 1 - The city Kiryu, located in Gunma, Japan, is founded.
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 - Mongolia declares its independence from China
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 between Poland and Soviet Union ending Polish-Soviet war. Despite the recent Polish successes, Soviets annex Ukraine and Belarus.
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 industrial action|strike - government threatens to call in the army
April 24 - Referendum in Tyrol supports joining to Germany
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 F.C.|Leicester City and Stockport County F.C.|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 Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress establishing national quotas on immigration.
May 31 - Race riots in Tulsa, Oklahoma
May 24 - Elections are held for the first time for the new Northern Ireland Parliament.
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 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 - Mongolia becomes independent of China
July 14 - A Massachusetts jury finds Sacco and Vanzetti|Nichola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti guilty of first degree murder following a widely-publicized trial.
July 18 - The first Bacillus Calmette-Guérin|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 National Socialist German Workers' Party|Nazi Party
July 27 - Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.
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 I of Iraq|Faisal is crowned in Baghdad
August 24 - Airship ZR 2 explodes during a test flight near Kingston upon Hull|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 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 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.
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 1 - Rising prices cause riots in Vienna.
December 16 - 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 of Canada|prime minister.
Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to enter Canadian parliament
Change of President of the United States|US presidency from Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) to Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
Invention of the vibraphone.
Abkhazia becomes an autonomous republic within the Soviet Union.
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
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
February 14 - Hugh Downs, American game show host and journalist
February 22 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
February 25 - Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (assassinated) (d. 1970)
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 (composer)|Robert Simpson, English composer (d. 1997)
March 3 - Paul Guimard, French writer (d. 2004)
March 5 - Elmer Valo, Czech Major League Baseball player (d. 1998)
March 8 - Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer
March 11 - Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005)
March 12 - Gianni Agnelli|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-May
April 1 - Beau Jack, American boxer (d. 2000)
April 8 - Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (d. 2003)
April 10 - Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (d. 2003)
April 14 - Thomas Schelling, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics|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)
May 2 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (d. 1992)
May 5 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|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 in Physics|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-August
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 4 - Gerard Debreu, French economist, Nobel Prize in Economics|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 in Chemistry|Nobel Prize laureate
July 15 - Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize laureate
July 17 - František Zvarík, Slovakian actor
July 17 - Hannah Szenes, Hungarian World War II heroine (d. 1944)
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 19 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991)
August 23 - Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize laureate
August 25 - Monty Hall, Canadian actor and game show host
September-December
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
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 18 - Jesse Helms, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
October 19 - Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (d. 1995)
October 25 - King Michael of Romania
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)
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)
Deaths
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)
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 28 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian religious leader (b. 1844)
December 16 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835)
December 31 - Boies Penrose, United States Senator from Pennsylvania (b. 1860)
Nobel Prizes
Nobel Prize/Physics|Physics - Albert Einstein
Nobel Prize/Chemistry|Chemistry - Frederick Soddy
Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine|Medicine - not awarded
Nobel Prize in literature|Literature - Anatole France
Nobel Prize/Peace|Peace - Karl Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lous Lange
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