1921

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

[edit] Table of Contents

Contents 1 Table of Contents 2 Events of 1921 2.1 January 2.2 February 2.3 March 2.4 April 2.5 May 2.6 July 2.7 August 2.8 September 2.9 October 2.10 November-December 2.11 Undated 2.12 Ongoing 3 Births 3.1 January-February 3.2 March-April 3.3 May-June 3.4 July-August 3.5 September-October 3.6 November-December 4 Deaths 4.1 January – June 4.2 July – December 5 Nobel prizes 6 Notes 7 External references

[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 club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube from Belo Horizonte is founded as Palestra Italia in Brazil.
  • The first religious radio broadcast is heard over station (KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).
  • The Spanish liner Santa Isabel sinks off Villa Garcia; 244 die.
• The DeYoung Museum opens in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
• January 20 – The Royal Navy K-boat K5 sinks in the English Channel with all 56 hands on board.
• January 21
  • The Italian Communist Party is founded in Livorno.
  • Suffrage for women is obtained in Sweden.

[edit] February

• February 6 – The Democratic Republic of Georgia is occupied by Bolshevist Russia during the Red Army invasion of Georgia.
• February 25 - the Red Army entered Georgian capital Tbilisi and installed a Moscow directed communist government.
• 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 – Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th President of the United States.
• March 6 – The Portuguese Communist Party is founded.
• March 8
  • Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
  • Allied forces occupy Düsseldorf, Ruhrort and Duisburg.
• March 12 – The İstiklâl Marşı (Independence March) the Turkish National Anthem, officially adopted.
• March 13 – The Russian White Army captures Mongolia from China. Roman Ungern von Sternberg declares himself ruler.
• March 14 -- Armenian Soghomon Tehlirian assassinates Mehmed Talaat, former Interior Minister of Turkey, in Charlottenburg, Berlin.
• 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. A permanent border is established between the Polish and Soviet states.
• March 21 – New Economic Policy starts in the Soviet Russia.
• March 23 – A plebiscite in Silesia votes for re-annexation to Germany.

[edit] April

• April – The Allies of World War I reparations commission announce that Germany has to pay 132 billion gold marks ($33 billion) in annual installments of 2.5 billion gold marks.
• 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; the government threatens to call in the army.
• April 16 – The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia is founded.
• 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.

[edit] May

• May 1-May 7 – The riots at Jaffa (Mandatory Palestine) result in 47 Jewish and 48 Arab deaths.
• 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 – A general strike begins in Norway.
• May 8 – The death penalty is abolished in Sweden.
• May 14 – May 17 – Violent anti-European riots occur in Cairo and Alexandria.
• May 14 – May 15 – Major geomagnetic storm.
• 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: The official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.

[edit] July

• July 1
  • The Communist Party of China is officially founded.
  • A 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 – A new conservative government is 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 Irish forces.
  • The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the 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 17 – The Republic of Mirdita is proclaimed near the Albanian-Serbian border with Yugoslav support.
• July 18 – The first BCG vaccination against tuberculosis is given.
• July 21 – Rif War – Battle of Annual: Spanish troops are dealt a crushing defeat at the hands of Abd el-Krim.
• July 22 – The Irish Truce is declared in Britain.
• July 26 – U.S. 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 28 – The Constitutional Assembly of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes passes the Vidovdan Constitution, despite a boycott of the vote by the communists, and Croat and Slovene parties.
• July 29 – Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of the Nazi Party.

[edit] August

• August – The United States formally ends World War I, declaring a peace with Germany.
• August 5 – The first radio baseball game is broadcast; Harold Arlin announces the Pirates-Phillies game from Forbes Field over Westinghouse KDKA, in Pittsburgh.
• August 11 – The temperature reaches 39 degrees Celsius in Breslau; the heat wave continues elsewhere in Europe as well.
• August 23 – King Faisal I of Iraq is crowned in Baghdad.
• August 24 – Airship ZR 2 explodes during a test flight near Hull, England; 41 are killed.
• August 26
• Rising prices cause major riots in Munich.
• The assassination of German politician Matthias Erzberger causes the government to declare martial law.

[edit] September

• September 1 – Poplar Strike in London: Nine members of the Poplar borough council are arrested.
• September 7 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant is held.
• September 8 – Sixteen-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dub her the first Miss America.
• September 12 – The Lotta Svärd women's paramilitary auxiliary is founded in Finland.
• September 21 – The Oppau explosion occurs at BASF's nitrate factory in Oppau, Germany; 500—600 are killed.

[edit] October

• October 8 – The first Sweetest Day is staged in Cleveland, Ohio.
• October 10 – Teaching at the University of Szeged starts in Hungary.
• October 19 – A massacre in Lisbon claims the lives of Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians.
• October 21 – A peace conference between Ireland and the United Kingdom begins in London.
• October 24 – The Spanish Army defeats the rifkabyls.
• October 29
• Construction of the Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is 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."

[edit] November-December

• November 9
  • Riots in Reykjavík injure most of the small police force.
  • Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
• November 11 – During an Armistice Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, the Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by U.S. President Warren G. Harding.
• November 14 – The Spanish Communist Party is founded.
• November 7 – The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence in Italy.
• 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 is inaugurated in India.
• December 29 – William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Canada's tenth prime minister.

[edit] Undated

• Abkhazia becomes an autonomous republic within the Soviet Union.
• Regular radio broadcasting services begin 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.
• The vibraphone in its original form is invented.
• The Tau Epsilon Chi (TEX) Jewish High School Sorority is founded in Atlantic City, NJ.
• The Sauerländer Heimatbund is founded in Meschede, Germany.
• Jewish immigration to Palestine grows rapidly. Before Jews preferred the USA but the USA drastically limited immigration from Eastern Europe.
• E.W. Scripps founds Science Service, later renamed Society for Science & the Public, with the goal of keeping the public informed of scientific achievements.
• Weimar Republic makes its first payment of reparations.

[edit] Ongoing

• Ethnic cleansing in Turkey:
• Armenian Genocide (1915–1923)
• 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
Berber calendar	2871
Buddhist calendar	2465
Burmese calendar	1283
Byzantine calendar	7429 – 7430
Chinese calendar	庚申年十一月廿三日 (4557/4617-11-23) — to — 辛酉年十二月初三日 (4558/4618-12-3)
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)
Korean calendar	4254
Thai solar calendar	2464
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[edit] 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, widow of Enver Hoxha
• February 11 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (d. 2006)
• February 14 – Hugh Downs, American game show host and journalist (20-20)
• 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 (Fish)
• 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)
  • 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)
  • Diana Barrymore, actress (d. 1960)
• 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 – Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (Gilligan's Island) (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 (MAD Magazine)
  • Cyril Poole, English cricketer (d. 1996)
• March 14 – Lis Hartel, Danish equestrian athlete (d. 2009)
• 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 (Flying Purple People Eater) (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, African-American actress (d. 1991)
  • Warren Spahn, American baseball player (d. 2003)
  • 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)
  • 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 16 – Harry Carey, Jr., American actor
• 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 the socio-economic "Progressive Utilization Theory" (d. 1990)
  • Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist and human rights 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 (d. 2008)
• 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 12 – Christopher Derrick, British writer (d. 2007)
• June 15 – Errol Garner, American jazz musician (d. 1977)
• June 21- Jane Russell , American actress
• June 22 – Ralph K. Hofer, American fighter pilot (d. 1942)
• 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)
  • 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)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver, member of the Kennedy family
• 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 (d. 2008)
  • Hannah Szenes, Hungarian World War II heroine (d. 1944)
• July 18
  • John Glenn, American astronaut and former U.S. Senator
  • 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 – Zdzislaw Zygulski, Jr., Polish art historian
• August 19 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (Star Trek) (d. 1991)
• August 23 – Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• August 25
  • Monty Hall, Canadian actor and game show host (Let's Make A Deal)
  • Brian Moore, Northern Irish-born writer (d. 1999)
• August 27 – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1996)
• August 28 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada, President of Bolivia

[edit] September-October

• September 3 – Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (d. 1971)
• September 8 – Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer (d. 2001)
• September 12 – Stanislaw Lem, Polish science fiction writer (d. 2006)
• September 13 – Sergey Nepobedimiy, Soviet rocket weaponry designer
• September 14 – Dario Vittori, Argentine actor (d. 2001)
• September 15 – Norma Macmillan, voice actress (d. 2001)
• September 24 – Jim McKay, American sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports) (d. 2008)
• September 30 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007)
• October 2 – Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
• October 5 – Bill Willis, American football player
• October 7 – Tommy Farrell, American supporting actor and comedian (d. 2004)
• October 8 – Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
• 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 (d. 2008)
• October 19 – Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (d. 1995)
• October 21 – Malcolm Arnold, British 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 8 – Gene Saks, American actor and film director
• November 11 – Ron Greenwood, English football manager (d. 2006)
• November 14 – Brian Keith, American actor (Family Affair) (d. 1997)
• November 17 – Albert Bertelsen, Danish artist
• November 22 – Rodney Dangerfield, American actor and comedian (d. 2004)
• November 23 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
• November 27 – Alexander Dubcek, 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 – Blaže Koneski, Macedonian poet and linguist (d. 1993)
• December 26 – Steve Allen, American actor, composer, comedian, and author (d. 2000)

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January – June

• January 1 – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
• February 2 – Antonio Jacobsen, maritime artist (b. 1850)
• 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 17 – Manuel Dimech, Maltese philosopher and social reformer (b. 1860)
• April 21 – Tom O'Brien, American 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)
• May 19 – Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1845)
• June 5 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
• June 28 – Gjorche Petrov, Macedonian and Bulgarian revolutionary
• June 29 – Otto Seeck, German classical historian (b. 1850)

[edit] 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 14 – Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, daughter of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1846)
• November 20 – Christina Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1843)
• November 27 – Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (b. 1854)
• 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)

[edit] Nobel prizes

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

[edit] Notes

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[edit] External references

• 1921 Aviation Comes North- NWT Historical Timeline- A Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre Online Exhibit

Contents:
Events of 1921 -  Jan. . Feb. . March . April -  May . June . July  .  Aug. -  Sept. . Oct. . Nov. .  Dec. -  Undated . Ongoing . Births Deaths Nobel Prizes See also -  Notes -  External links