1921

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1921 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1921 MCMXXI
Ab urbe condita	2674
Armenian calendar	1370 ԹՎ ՌՅՀ
Assyrian calendar	6671
Baháʼí calendar	77–78
Balinese saka calendar	1842–1843
Bengali calendar	1328
Berber calendar	2871
British Regnal year	11 Geo. 5 – 12 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2465
Burmese calendar	1283
Byzantine calendar	7429–7430
Chinese calendar	庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4618 or 4411     — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4619 or 4412
Coptic calendar	1637–1638
Discordian calendar	3087
Ethiopian calendar	1913–1914
Hebrew calendar	5681–5682
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1977–1978
- Shaka Samvat	1842–1843
- Kali Yuga	5021–5022
Holocene calendar	11921
Igbo calendar	921–922
Iranian calendar	1299–1300
Islamic calendar	1339–1340
Japanese calendar	Taishō 10 (大正１０年)
Javanese calendar	1851–1852
Juche calendar	10
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4254
Minguo calendar	ROC 10 民國10年
Nanakshahi calendar	453
Thai solar calendar	2463–2464
Tibetan calendar	阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 2047 or 1666 or 894     — to — 阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 2048 or 1667 or 895

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

Events

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

February

• 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

• March 17 the Red Army crushes the rebellion and a 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

• 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 24 - Referendum in Tyrol supports joining to Germany

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.

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.

July

• 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 Nichola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti guilty of first degree murder following a widely-publicized trial.
• July 18 - The first 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 Nazi Party
• July 27 - Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.

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 degree 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.

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 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

• 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

• 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.

unknown dates

• Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to enter Canadian parliament
• Change of 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.
• Edward Harper the ' father of broadcasting ' in Ceylon arrives in Colombo to take up his post as Chief Engineer of the Ceylon Telegraph Department.

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 20 - Buddy Rogers (Herman C. Rohde Jr.), professional wrestler, first WWWF World Heavyweight Champion (d. 1992)
• 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, 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 - 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

• 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 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

• 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 25 - Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, 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

• 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

• 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
• July 15 - Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• July 17 - František Zvarík, Slovakian actor
• July 17 - Hannah Szenes, Hungarian World War II heroine (d. 1944)
• July 18 - John Glenn, American astronaut
• 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

• 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 laureate
• August 25 - Monty Hall, Canadian actor and game show host

September

• 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
• September 30 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish Actress

October

• 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

• 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)
• November 27 - Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. 1992)

December

• 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

• 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

• March 2 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro (b. 1841)

April

• April 27 - Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)

May

• May 5 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)

June

• June 5 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)

August

• August 2 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)

September

• 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

• October 25 - Bat Masterson, American gunfighter

November

• November 28 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian religious leader (b. 1844)

December

• December 16 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835)
• December 31 - Boies Penrose, United States 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