1921
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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
Births
| 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 |
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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