Year '1921' ('
MCMXXI') was a
common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1921
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)
★
★ Spanish liner ''
Santa Isabel'' sinks off
Villa Garcia - 244 dead
★
★
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.
★
★ Women are allowed to vote in Sweden.
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
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.
★
★ Occupation of
Düsseldorf,
Rurhort and
Duisburg.
★
March 13 - Russian White Army captures
Mongolia from
China.
Roman Ungern von Sternberg declares himself ruler.
★
March 17
★
★ The
Red Army crushes the
Kronstadt rebellion and a number of sailors flee to Finland
★
★
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.
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 20 -
Ferenc Molnár's play ''
Liliom'' is first produced on
Broadway in English. A flop in its native Hungary when first presented there in 1909, the American production is critically acclaimed and becomes a modern classic, filmed more than once, and eclipsed only when
Rodgers and Hammerstein adapt it in 1945 into a hit musical, ''
Carousel'', which becomes a stage classic in its own right.
★
April 24 -
Referendum in
Tyrol supports joining to
Germany
May-June
★
May 1-
May 7 -
Riots in Palestine of May, 1921.
★
May 2-
July 5 -
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 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.
★
★ 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.
★
★ 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.
August
★ August - The
United States formally ends
World War I, declaring a peace with
Germany.
★
August 2 - Famous opera singer Enrico Caruso dies.
★
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.
★
★ 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 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.
★
★
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-December
★
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.
★
November 7 - The
Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, came into existence.
★
December 1 - Rising prices cause riots in
Vienna.
★
December 6
★
★ The
Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the
Irish Free State, an independent nation incorporating 26 of Ireland's 32 counties is signed in
London. See
Ireland/History.
★
★
Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to be elected to the Canadian parliament.
★
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.
Undated
★
Abkhazia becomes an autonomous republic within the
Soviet Union.
★ 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 in its original form.
★
Tau Epsilon Chi (TEX) Jewish
High School Sorority is founded in
Atlantic City,
NJ.
Ongoing
★
Ethnic cleansing in
Turkey:
★
★
Assyrian Genocide (
1914–
1922)
★
★
Pontic Greek Genocide (
1916–
1923).
Births
January-February
★
January 5
★
★
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d.
1990)
★
★
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
★
January 9
★
★
William 'Billy Batts' Devino (d.
1970)
★
★
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
★
★
Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (d.
1959)
★
February 4
★
★
Betty Friedan, American feminist (d.
2006)
★
★
K. R. Narayanan,
President of India (d.
2005)
★
February 5 -
John Pritchard, English conductor (d.
1989)
★
February 7 -
Nexhmije Hoxha, the widow of
Enver Hoxha
★
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)
March-April
★
March 1
★
★
Jack Clayton, British film director (d.
1995)
★
★
Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (d.
1983)
★
★
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
★
★
Joan Greenwood, British actress and director (d.
1987)
★
★
Wilson Harris, Guyanese writer
★
March 5 -
Elmer Valo, Czech
Major League Baseball player (d.
1998)
★
March 8
★
★
Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer
★
★
Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d.
1990)
★
March 11 -
Frank Harary, American mathematician (d.
2005)
★
March 12
★
★
Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (d.
2003)
★
★
Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (d.
1986)
★
March 13
★
★
Al Jaffee, American cartoonist
★
★
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
★
April 21 -
Vivian Dandridge, Actress
★
★
Warren Spahn, baseball player (d.
2003)
★
★
Janet Blair, American actress (d.
2007)
★
April 25 -
Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d.
2006)
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)
★
★
Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d.
2004)
★
May 11 -
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician
★
May 12
★
★
Joseph Beuys, German artist (d.
1986)
★
★
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)
★
★
Hal Newhouser, baseball player (d.
1998)
★
May 21
★
★
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian philosopher author of socio-economical theory
"Progressive Utilization Theory" (d.
1990)
★
★
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)
★
★
Humphrey Lyttelton, British jazz musician and radio personality
★
May 25
★
★
Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
★
★
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)
July-August
★
July 4
★
★
Gerard Debreu, French economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2004)
★
★
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)
★
★
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
★
★
Hannah Szenes, Hungarian World War II heroine (d.
1944)
★
July 18
★
★
John Glenn, American astronaut
★
★
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
★
★
Brian Moore, Northern Irish-born writer (d.
1999)
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 15 -
Norma Macmillan, voice actress (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)
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)
★
December 28 -
Stan Lee Writer and Comic Book creator.
Deaths
January - June
★
January 1 -
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg,
Chancellor of Germany (b.
1856)
★
February 8
★
★
Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (b.
1842)
★
★
George Formby (Senior), English entertainer (b.
1876)
★
February 26 -
Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b.
1840)
★
February 27 -
Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b.
1871)
★
March 1 - King
Nicholas I of Montenegro (b.
1841)
★
April 21 -
Tom O'Brien, 19th century
major league baseball player (b.
1860)
★
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)
★
June 29 -
Otto Seeck, German classical historian (b.
1850)
July - December
★
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 7 -
Alfred William Rich, English watercolour painter (b.
1856)
★
September 11 -
Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b.
1882)
★
September 27 -
Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b.
1854)
★
October 25 -
Bat Masterson, American gunfighter (b.
1853)
★
November 4 -
Hara Takashi, 19th
Prime Minister of Japan (b.
1856)
★
November 20 -
Christina Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano (b.
1843)
★
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
Notes
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