1921

Published on Saturday, September 20th 2008. Edited by Cap Hutdigbog, Ann Arbor, United States.

Centuries: 19th century – 20th century – 21st century

Decades: 1890s  1900s  1910s  – 1920s –  1930s  1940s  1950s

Years: 1918 1919 1920 – 1921 – 1922 1923 1924

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

Table of Contents

Events of 1921

January

• 1 January – In American football, the University of California defeated Ohio State 28-1 in the Rose Bowl.

• 2 January

• 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.

• DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park San Francisco opens.

• 20 January – The Royal Navy K-boat K5 sinks in the English Channel with all 56 hands on board.

• 21 January

• The Italian Communist Party is founded in Livorno.

• Suffrage for women is obtained in Sweden.

February

• 6 February – The Democratic Republic of Georgia is occupied by Bolshevist Russia during the Red Army invasion of Georgia.
• 27 February – The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is formed in Vienna.
• 28 February – Russian sailors rebel in Kronstadt.

March

• 1 March – The city Kiryu, located in Gunma, Japan, is founded.
• 4 March – Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th President of the United States.
• 6 March – The Portuguese Communist Party is founded.

• 8 March

• Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.

• Allied forces occupy Düsseldorf, Rurhort and Duisburg.

• 13 March – The Russian White Army captures Mongolia from China. Roman Ungern von Sternberg declares himself ruler.

• 17 March

• 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.

• 18 March – The second Peace of Riga ends the Polish-Soviet war. The permanent border is established between the Polish and Soviet states.

• 23 March – A plebiscite in Silesia votes for re-annexation to Germany.

April

• 11 April – The Emirate of Transjordan is created, with Abdullah I as emir.
• 14 April – In Britain, labour unions for mining, railway and transportation workers call for a strike; the government threatens to call in the army.
• 16 April – The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia is founded.
• 20 April – 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.
• 24 April – A referendum in Tyrol supports joining to Germany.

May

• 1 May-7 May – Riots in Palestine of May, 1921.
• 2 May-5 July – Third Silesian Uprising: The Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans.
• 5 May – Only 13 spectators attend the soccer match between Leicester City and Stockport County, the lowest attendance in The Football League’s history.
• 6 May – General strike begins in Norway.
• 8 May – Death penalty abolished in Sweden.
• 14 May – 17 May – Violent anti-European riots occur in Cairo and Alexandria.
• 19 May – The Emergency Quota Act passes the U.S. Congress, establishing national quotas on immigration.
• 24 May – Elections are held for the first time for the new Northern Ireland Parliament.
• 31 May – Tulsa Race Riot: The official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.

July

• 1 July

• The Communist Party of China is officially founded.

• A coal strike ends in England.

• 2 July – U.S. President Warren Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring an end to America’s state of war with Germany, Austria and Hungary.

• 4 July – A new conservative government is formed in Italy by Ivanoe Bonomi.

• 11 July

• 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.

• 14 July – A Massachusetts jury finds Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti guilty of first degree murder following a widely-publicized trial.

• 17 July – Republic of Mirdita is proclaimed near Albanian–Serbian border with Yugoslav support.
• 18 July – The first BCG vaccination against tuberculosis is given.
• 21 July – Rif War: Spanish troops are dealt a crushing defeat at the Battle of Annual against Abd el-Krim.
• 22 July – The Irish Truce is declared in Britain.
• 26 July – US President Warren G. Harding receives Princess Fatima of Afghanistan and Stanley Clifford Weyman.
• 27 July – Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.
• 29 July – Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of the Nazi Party.

August

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

September

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

October

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

November-December

• 9 November

• Riots in Reykjavík injure most of the small police force.

• Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect

• 11 November – During an Armistice Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, the Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by U.S. President Warren G. Harding.

• 14 November – The Spanish Communist Party is founded.
• 7 November – The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence in Italy.
• 1 December – Rising prices cause riots in Vienna.
• 6 December
• 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.
• 13 December – 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.
• 23 December – Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
• 29 December – 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.
• Sauerländer Heimatbund founded in Meschede

Ongoing

• Ethnic cleansing in Turkey:
• Assyrian Genocide (1914–1922)
• Pontic Greek Genocide (1916–1923).

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)

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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

January-February

• 5 January

• Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)

• Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

• 9 January

• William ‘Billy Batts’ Devino (d. 1970)

• Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)

• 10 January – Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d. 2004)

• 14 January – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)
• 19 January – Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
• 27 January – Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)

• 31 January

• Carol Channing, American actress

• Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (d. 1959)

• 4 February

• Betty Friedan, American feminist (d. 2006)

• K. R. Narayanan, President of India (d. 2005)

• 5 February – John Pritchard, English conductor (d. 1989)

• 7 February – Nexhmije Hoxha, the widow of Enver Hoxha
• 11 February – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (d. 2006)
• 14 February – Hugh Downs, American game show host and journalist
• 16 February – Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (d. 1981)
• 20 February – Buddy Rogers, American professional wrestler (d. 1992)
• 22 February – Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
• 24 February – Abe Vigoda, American actor
• 25 February – Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (assassinated) (d. 1970)
• 26 February – Betty Hutton, American actress (d. 2007)
• 28 February – Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006)

March-April

• 1 March

• Jack Clayton, British film director (d. 1995)

• Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (d. 1983)

• Richard Wilbur, American poet

• 2 March – Robert Simpson, English composer (d. 1997)

• 3 March – Paul Guimard, French writer (d. 2004)

• 4 March

• Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born U.S. composer, performer, ethnomusicologist and educator

• Joan Greenwood, British actress and director (d. 1987)

• Wilson Harris, Guyanese writer

• 5 March – Elmer Valo, Czech Major League Baseball player (d. 1998)

• 8 March – Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)
• 11 March – Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005)

• 12 March

• Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (d. 2003)

• Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (d. 1986)

• 13 March

• Al Jaffee, American cartoonist

• Cyril Poole, English cricketer (d. 1996)

• 20 March – Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer (d. 1973)

• 21 March – Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (d. 1986)
• 25 March – Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
• 28 March – Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)
• 1 April – Beau Jack, American boxer (d. 2000)
• 8 April – Franco Corelli, Italian opera singer (d. 2003)
• 10 April – Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (d. 2003)
• 14 April – Thomas Schelling, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 15 April – Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1995)
• 16 April – Peter Ustinov, English actor and director (d. 2004)
• 23 April

• 21 April – Vivian Dandridge, Actress

• Warren Spahn, baseball player (d. 2003)

• Janet Blair, American actress (d. 2007)

• 25 April – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006)

May-June

• 2 May – Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (d. 1992)
• 5 May – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• 6 May – Erich Fried, Austrian author (d. 1988)

• 9 May

• Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)

• Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)

• 11 May – Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician

• 12 May

• Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986)

• Farley Mowat, Canadian writer and naturalist

• 16 May – Harry Carey, Jr., American actor

• 17 May – Dennis Brain, English French horn player (d. 1957)
• 18 May – Sir Michael Epstein, British medical researcher
• 19 May – Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999)

• 20 May

• Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (d. 1947)

• Hal Newhouser, baseball player (d. 1998)

• 21 May

• 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)

• 23 May

• James Blish, American science fiction author (d. 1975)

• Humphrey Lyttelton, British jazz musician and radio personality (d. 2008)

• 25 May

• Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

• James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher (d. 2000)

• 26 May – Stan Mortensen, English footballer (d. 1991)

• 28 May – Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)
• 1 June – Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (d. 1985)
• 3 June – Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete
• 8 June – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d. 1993)
• 10 June – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
• 12 June – Christopher Derrick, British writer (d. 2007)
• 15 June – Errol Garner, American jazz musician (d. 1977)
• 21 June- Jane Russell , American actress (d. 1921)
• 22 June – Ralph K. Hofer, American fighter pilot (d. 1942)
• 25 June – Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007)
• 26 June – Violette Szabo, French World War II heroine (d. 1945)
• 28 June – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)

July-August

• 4 July

• Gerard Debreu, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)

• Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (d. 2003)

• 6 July – Nancy Davis Reagan, wife of U.S President Ronald Reagan

• 10 July

• Harvey Ball, American designer (d. 2001)

• Eunice Kennedy Shriver, member of the Kennedy family

• 11 July – Ilse Werner, German actress (d. 2005)

• 13 July – Friedrich Peter, Austrian poltitician (d. 2005)

• 14 July

• Leon Garfield, English children’s author (d. 1996)

• Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)

• 15 July – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)

• 17 July

• František Zvarík, Slovakian actor

• Hannah Szenes, Hungarian World War II heroine (d. 1944)

• 18 July

• John Glenn, American astronaut

• Aaron T. Beck, American psychiatrist

• 19 July – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

• 22 July – William Roth, U.S. Senator (d. 2003)
• 30 July – Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (d. 2005)
• 3 August – Richard Adler, American Broadway composer
• 4 August – Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
• 8 August – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (d. 1979)
• 9 August – J. James Exon Governor of Nebraska and U.S. Senator (d. 2005)
• 13 August – Barney Liddell, American musician, The Lawrence Welk Show (d. 2003)
• 18 August – Zdzislaw Zygulski, Jr., Polish art historian
• 19 August – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991)
• 23 August – Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

• 25 August

• Monty Hall, Canadian actor and game show host

• Brian Moore, Northern Irish-born writer (d. 1999)

• 27 August – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1996)

September-October

• 3 September – Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (d. 1971)
• 8 September – Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer (d. 2001)
• 12 September – Stanislaw Lem, Polish science fiction writer (d. 2006)
• 13 September – Sergey Nepobedimiy, Soviet rocket weaponry designer
• 14 September – Dario Vittori, Argentinean actor (d. 2001)
• 15 September – Norma Macmillan, voice actress (d. 2001)
• 24 September – Jim McKay, American sportscaster (d. 2008)
• 30 September – Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007)
• 2 October – Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
• 5 October – Bill Willis, American football player
• 7 October – Tommy Farrell, American supporting actor and comedian (d. 2004)
• 8 October – Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
• 13 October – Yves Montand, French singer and actor (d. 1991)
• 17 October – Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet gymnast (d. 2001)
• 18 October – Jesse Helms, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
• 19 October – Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (d. 1995)
• 21 October – Malcolm Arnold, music composer (d. 2006)
• 22 October – Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
• 25 October – King Michael of Romania
• 26 October – Frances Scott Fitzgerald, Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. (d. 1986)

November-December

• 3 November – Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
• 5 November – Princess Fawzia of Egypt
• 6 November – James Jones, American writer (d. 1977)
• 11 November – Ron Greenwood, English football manager (d. 2006)
• 14 November – Brian Keith, American actor (d. 1997)
• 17 November – Albert Bertelsen, Danish artist
• 22 November – Rodney Dangerfield, American actor and comedian (d. 2004)
• 23 November – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
• 27 November – Alexander Dubcek, Slovak politician and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. 1992)
• 29 November – Jackie Stallone, American astrologer and mother of Sylvester Stallone
• 3 December – Phyllis Curtin, American soprano
• 6 December – Otto Graham, American football player (d. 2003)
• 26 December – Blaže Koneski, Macedonian poet and linguist
• 26 December – Steve Allen, American actor, composer, comedian, and author (d. 2000)

Deaths

January – June

• 1 January – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)

• 8 February

• Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (b. 1842)

• George Formby (Senior), English entertainer (b. 1876)

• 26 February – Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840)

• 27 February – Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b. 1871)
• 1 March – King Nicholas I of Montenegro (b. 1841)
• 17 April – Manuel Dimech, Maltese philosopher and social reformer (b. 1860)
• 21 April – Tom O'Brien, 19th century major league baseball player (b. 1860)
• 27 April – Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
• 5 May – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
• 19 May – Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1845)
• 5 June – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
• 28 June – Gjorche Petrov, Macedonian and Bulgarian revolutionary
• 29 June – Otto Seeck, German classical historian (b. 1850)

July – December

• 2 August – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
• 19 August – Georges Darien, French writer (b. 1862)
• 2 September – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
• 7 September – Alfred William Rich, English watercolour painter (b. 1856)
• 11 September – Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
• 27 September – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854)
• 25 October – Bat Masterson, American gunfighter (b. 1853)
• 4 November – Hara Takashi, 19th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1856)
• 20 November – Christina Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1843)
• 27 November – Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (b. 1854)
• 28 November – `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian religious leader (b. 1844)
• 10 December – George Ashlin, Irish architect (b. 1837)
• 16 December – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835)
• 31 December – 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

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