December 1921
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The following events occurred in December 1921:
December 1, 1921 (Thursday)
- Riots break out in Vienna as a result of price rises.[1]
December 2, 1921 (Friday)
- Born: Carlo Furno, Italian cardinal, in Bairo, Piedmont (died 2015)[2]
December 3, 1921 (Saturday)
December 4, 1921 (Sunday)
- Born: Deanna Durbin, Canadian singer, in Winnipeg, as Edna Mae Durbin (d. 2013)[3]
December 5, 1921 (Monday)
- Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins meets UK prime minister David Lloyd George at 10 Downing Street to discuss the remaining "points of difference" between the two sides.[4]
- The Football Association, governing body of association football in England, bans women from playing at FA-affiliated pitches (the only ones with spectator facilities), saying that "the game of football is quite unsuitable for females".[5]
- The 11th season of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association begins.[6]
- Born: Alvy Moore, American actor (d. 1997)
December 6, 1921 (Tuesday)
- The Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State, an independent nation incorporating 26 of Ireland's 32 counties, is signed in London, bringing to an end the Irish War of Independence.[7]
- 1921 Canadian federal election: The Liberal Party of Canada wins power from the incumbent Unionists and Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to be elected to the Canadian Parliament.[8]
- Born: Otto Graham, American football player, in Waukegan, Illinois (died 2003)
December 8, 1921 (Thursday)
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December 9, 1921 (Friday)
- The strong anti-knocking effect of the lead compound tetraethyllead (TEL) in gasoline is discovered by Kettering, Midgley and Boyd at the General Motors laboratories in the United States.[9]
- Anti-Christian pamphleteer John William Gott becomes the last person in England to be publicly prosecuted and imprisoned for blasphemous libel.[10]
- The 1921 Detroit Junior College Council holds a banquet to honor its American football team for not having given away a point during the 1921 season.[11]
- Erwin Schrödinger delivers his inaugural lecture at the University of Zürich, contributing to the history of quantum theory.[12]
December 10, 1921 (Saturday)
- Died: George Ashlin, Irish architect (b. 1837)
December 11, 1921 (Sunday)
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December 12, 1921 (Monday)
- Died: Henrietta Swan Leavitt, 53, American astronomer[13]
December 13, 1921 (Tuesday)
- By signing the Four-Power Treaty on Insular Possessions, Japan, the United States, United Kingdom, and France agree to recognize the status quo in the Pacific.[14]
December 14, 1921 (Wednesday)
December 15, 1921 (Thursday)
- Born: Alan Freed, US DJ credited with inventing the term "rock and roll", as Aldon James Freed, in Windber, Pennsylvania (died 1965)[15]
December 16, 1921 (Friday)
- Died: Camille Saint-Saëns, 86, French composer [16] (subscription required)
December 17, 1921 (Saturday)
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December 18, 1921 (Sunday)
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December 19, 1921 (Monday)
- Born: Blaže Koneski, Macedonian poet and linguist, in Nebregovo in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, (died 1993)[17]
December 20, 1921 (Tuesday)
- Sir George Fuller succeeds James Dooley as Premier of the Australian state of New South Wales after a defeat for Dooley's government 13 December 1921, but Fuller loses a critical vote within seven hours of his appointment, and Dooley is returned to office.[18]
- Died:
- Dmitri Parsky, 55, Russian general (typhus)[19]
- Julius Richard Petri, 69, German microbiologist[20]
December 21, 1921 (Wednesday)
- Born: Luigi Creatore, US songwriter and record producer, in New York City (died 2015)[21]
December 22, 1921 (Thursday)
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December 23, 1921 (Friday)
- Visva-Bharati College is founded by Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan, Bengal Presidency, British India, with a Memorandum of Association to the University of Calcutta.[22]
December 24, 1921 (Saturday)
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December 25, 1921 (Sunday)
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December 26, 1921 (Monday)
- Born: Steve Allen, US radio and TV personality, actor, musician, comedian, and author, in New York City (died 2000)[23]
December 27, 1921 (Tuesday)
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December 28, 1921 (Wednesday)
- Italy's Banca Italiana di Sconto goes bankrupt. The bank is granted a moratorium of one year to resolve its financial problems.[24]
December 29, 1921 (Thursday)
- Liberal leader William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Canada's tenth prime minister.[25]
December 30, 1921 (Friday)
- Gun Alley Murder: In Melbourne, Australia, a 12-year-old schoolgirl is raped and murdered.[26] The case would later become known for a probable miscarriage of justice.
- Born: Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman, ten times prime minister, in Miriata (died 1987)[27]
December 31, 1921 (Saturday)
- The Men's Singles competition at the 1921 Australasian Championships in Perth, Australia, is won by Rice Gemmell.[28]
- Born: Maurice Yaméogo, President of Upper Volta, in Koudougou (died 1993)[29]
- Died: Boies Penrose, 61, long-serving U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania [30]
References
- ^ Great Britain. Dept. of Overseas Trade (1921). Report on Economic and Commercial Conditions in Austria. H.M. Stationery Office. pp. 6–10.
- ^ "Morto il cardinale Carlo Furno, già Nunzio apostolico in Italia". La Stampa (in Italian). 10 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
- ^ Harris M. Lentz III (23 May 2014). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2013. McFarland. p. 99. ISBN 978-1-4766-1652-0.
- ^ "Collins' meeting with Lloyd George – 5 December 1921". National Archives of Ireland. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
- ^ Anna Doble (9 June 2015). "The secret history of women's football". BBC Newsbeat. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
- ^ Boileau, Ron; Wolf, Philip (2000), "The Pacific Coast Hockey Association", in Diamond, Dan (ed.), Total Hockey, pp. 51–54, ISBN 1-892129-85-X
- ^ "Official Correspondence relating to the Peace Negotiations, part 1: Preliminary Correspondence". CELT. University College, Cork. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
- ^ Canadian Historic Sites; Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History: Lieux Historiques Canadiens; Cahiers D'archéologie Et D'histoire. Parks Canada. 1974. p. 152.
- ^ Albert Lidgett (1970). Petroleum Times. Petroleum Times. p. 23.
- ^ Royle, Edward. "Gott, John William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47693. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Victorious '11' To Dine, Dance: Junior College Folk Plan Fete for Athletes". Detroit Free Press. December 4, 1921. p. 82 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ J. E. Baggott; Jim Baggott (24 February 2011). The Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments. OUP Oxford. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-19-956684-6.
- ^ Harry G. Lang; Professor Center for Research and Learning Rochester Institute of Technology Harry G Lang; Bonnie Meath-Lang (1995). Deaf Persons in the Arts and Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-313-29170-8.
- ^ J. Chal Vinson The Drafting of the Four-Power Treaty of the Washington Conference, Journal of Modern History, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Mar., 1953), pp. 40–47
- ^ John Arthur Garraty; Mark Christopher Carnes (1 January 1999). American National Biography. Oxford University Press. p. 429. ISBN 978-0-19-512787-4.
- ^ Prod'homme, Jacques-Gabriel (October 1922). "Camille Saint-Saëns" (PDF). The Musical Quarterly. 8: 469–486. doi:10.1093/mq/viii.4.469. ISSN 0027-4631. JSTOR 737853.
- ^ Andreevski, C. (1991). Razgovori so Koneski (in Macedonian). Skopje: Kultura. p. 76.
- ^ Cunneen, Chris. "Dooley, James Thomas (1877 - 1950)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
- ^ Mikhail Bonch-Bruevich (1966). From tsarist general to Red Army commander. Progress Publishers. p. 253.
- ^ "Julius Richard Petri, inventor of the Petri dish, celebrated in Google Doodle". The Telegraph. 31 May 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
- ^ Roberts, Sam (15 December 2015). "Luigi Creatore, Songwriter and Producer, Dies at 93". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
- ^ Ashok Rudra (1996). Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis: A Biography. Oxford University Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-19-563679-6.
- ^ Current Biography Yearbook. H. W. Wilson Co. 1982. p. 1.
- ^ 4 Billion Lire Owed By Banca Di Sconto, The New York Times, December 31, 1921
- ^ Canada. Privy Council Office; Public Archives Canada (1982). Guide to Canadian Ministries Since Confederation, July 1, 1867-February 1, 1982. Government of Canada, Privy Council Office. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-660-11156-8.
- ^ "GUN ALLEY MURDER". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. XLII, no. 3. Tasmania, Australia. 4 January 1922. p. 5. Retrieved 30 July 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ The New York Times Biographical Service. University Microfilms. 1987. p. 539.
- ^ "Grand Slam Tennis Archive - Australasian Open 1921". Archived from the original on 2017-09-08. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
- ^ États africains d'expression française et République malgache, Paris, Éditions Julliard, 1964, p. 73 (French)
- ^ Jan Onofrio (1 January 1999). Pennsylvania Biographical Dictionary. Somerset Publishers, Inc. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-403-09950-4.