1921

Years:
1918 1919 1920 – 1921 – 1922 1923 1924

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

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

1921 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
Science and technology
Aviation - Rail transport - Science
Other topics
Canada – Ireland – South Africa – Sport

Lists of leaders:
State leaders - Religious leaders

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

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel Prizes

Events

January 1 – In football, 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 – Republic of Turkey is declared
January 20 – Royal Navy K-boat K5 sinks in the English Channel with all 56 hands
February 25 – The Democratic Republic of Georgia is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
February 28 – Russian sailors rebel in Kronstadt – On March 17 the Red Army crushes the rebellion and 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 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 1-7 – 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 Football League history.
May 6 – General strike begins in Norway
May 8 – Death penalty abolished in Sweden
May 14 – 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.
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 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 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 27 – Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.
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 – Feisal I becomes the king of Egypt
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 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 12 – Lotta Svärd founded in Finland
September 21 – explosion of BASF's nitrate factory in Oppau, Germany – 535–561 dead.
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
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 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 29 – William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Canada's tenth prime minister.

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.

Births

January

January 5 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)
January 5 – Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg
January 6 – Louis Harris, American pollster
January 10 – Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d. 2004)
January 19 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
January 20 – Bernt Engelmann, author (d. 1994)
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 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 25 – Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (assassinated) (d. 1970)

March

March 1:
- Jack Clayton, British film director
- Richard Wilbur, American poet
- Terence Cardinal Cooke, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York (d. 1983)
March 2 – Robert Simpson, English composer (d. 1997)
March 3 – Paul Guimard, French writer (d. 2004)
March 5 – Elmer Valo, Major League Baseball player (d. 1998)
March 8 – Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer
March 11 – Frank Harary, mathematician and expert on Graph theory (d. 2005)
March 12:
- Giovanni Agnelli, Italian manager of Fiat (d. 2003)
- Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (d. 1986)
March 13 – Al Jaffee, American cartoonist
March 20:
- Rudolf Noelte, film director (d. 2002)
- 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, American actor (d. 1999)

April-May

April 1 – Beau Jack, American boxer (d. 2000)
April 8 – Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (d. 2003)
April 15 – Georgi Beregovoi, cosmonaut (d. 1995)
April 23 – Warren Spahn, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2003)
May 2 – Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (d. 1992)
May 6 – Erich Fried, Austrian author (d. 1988)
May 9 – Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
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 19 – Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999)
May 20 – Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (d. 1947)
May 20 – Hal Newhouser, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1998)
May 21 – Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and human rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1989)
May 23 – James Blish, American science fiction author (d. 1975)
May 26 – Stan Mortensen, English footballer (d. 1991)
May 28 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)

June-August

June 1 – Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (d. 1985)
June 8 – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d. 1993)
June 10 – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
June 21 – Charles Blauvelt Marshall, World War II Combat Engineer
June 26 – Violette Szabo, French World War II heroine (d. 1945)
June 28 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
July 4 – Tibor Varga, violinist and conductor
July 14 – Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996)
July 17 – Hannah Szenes, Hungarian World War II heroine (d. 1944)
July 30 – Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (d. 2005)
July 30 – William Chester Owens, World War II pilot
August 8 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (d. 1979)
August 19 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer(d.1991)
August 25 – Monty Hall, Canadian actor and game show host

September-December

September 3, Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (d. 1971)
September 12, Stanislaw Lem, Polish science fiction writer
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 5 – Princess Fawzia of Egypt
November 11 – Ron Greenwood, English football manager
November 22 – Rodney Dangerfield, American actor and comedian (d. 2004)
November 23 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
November 24 – Yoshiko Uchida, Japanese-American writer
December 3 – Phyllis Curtin, American soprano
December 26 – Steve Allen, American actor, composer, comedian, and author (d. 2000)

Deaths

February 8 – Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (b. 1842)
February 26 – Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840)
February 27 – Schofield Haigh, irresistible sticky wicket bowler for Yorkshire (b. 1871)
March 2 – King Nicholas I of Montenegro (b. 1841)
April 27 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
June 5 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
August 2 – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
September 2 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
September 11 – Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
October 25 – Bat Masterson, American gunfighter
December 16 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835)

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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