1 Events: 1.2 February
1 Events: 1.2 February
1 Events: 1.2 February
This article is about the year 1921. For the song by The The full-length silent comedy-drama lm The
Who, see Tommy (album). For the 1988 Indian lm Kid, written, produced, directed by and star-
about Mappila Uprising, see 1921 (lm). ring Charlie Chaplin (in his Tramp character),
with Jackie Coogan, is released in the United
States.
1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Satur-
day (dominical letter B) of the Gregorian calendar and a January 25 The Italian battleship Leonardo da
common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of Vinci is righted in Taranto Harbour.
the Julian calendar, the 1921st year of the Common Era
(CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 921st year
of the 2nd millennium, the 21st year of the 20th century, 1.2 February
and the 2nd year of the 1920s decade. As of the start
of 1921, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of February 12 Red Army invasion of Georgia:
the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until The Democratic Republic of Georgia is invaded by
1923. forces of Bolshevist Russia.
The rst religious radio broadcast is heard over February 28 The Kronstadt rebellion is initiated by
station KDKA AM in Pittsburgh. sailors of the Soviet Navy's Baltic Fleet.
The Spanish liner Santa Isabel sinks o Villa
Garcia; 244 die. 1.3 March
The De Young Museum opens in Golden Gate
Park, San Francisco. March Group Settlement Scheme in Western Aus-
tralia begins.
January 20 The British K-class submarine HMS
K5 sinks in the English Channel; all 56 on board die. March 1 The city of Kiry, located in Gunma Pre-
fecture, Japan, is founded.
January 21
March 4 Warren G. Harding is sworn in as 29th
President of the United States.
The Italian Communist Party is founded in
Livorno. March 5 Irish War of Independence: Clonbanin
The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Tran- Ambush: Irish Republican Army kills Brigadier
scarpathian Ukraine holds its founding General Cumming.
congress in ubocha.
March 6 The Portuguese Communist Party is
Womens surage is attained in Sweden. founded.
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2 1 EVENTS
March 21
1.4 April
March 4: Warren G. Harding is 29th President of the United
States. April The United States Figure Skating Associa-
tion is formed.
May 24 First Northern Ireland general election for July 18 The rst BCG vaccination against
the new Parliament of Northern Ireland is held. tuberculosis is given.
May 26 A general strike begins in Norway. July 21 Rif War Battle of Annual: Spanish
troops are dealt a crushing defeat at the hands of Abd
May 31 Tulsa race riot begins in Tulsa, Oklahoma. el-Krim.
The ocial death toll is 39, but later investigations
suggest the actual toll may be much higher. July 22 The Anglo-Irish truce, agreed 10 days ear-
lier, is ocially declared in London.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is August 5 The rst radio baseball game is broad-
founded. cast; Harold Arlin announces the Pirates-Phillies
A coal strike ends in England. game from Forbes Field over Westinghouse KDKA,
in Pittsburgh.
July 2 U.S. President Warren Harding signs a
joint congressional resolution declaring an end to August 11 The temperature reaches 39 degrees
Americas state of war with Germany, Austria and Celsius in Breslau; the heat wave continues else-
Hungary.[1] where in Europe as well.
July 4 A new conservative government is formed August 23 King Faisal I of Iraq is crowned in
in Italy by Ivanoe Bonomi. Baghdad.
4 1 EVENTS
August 24 R38-class airship ZR-2 explodes on The Treaty of Kars is signed between the
her fourth test ight near Kingston upon Hull, Eng- Grand National Assembly of Turkey and
land, killing 44 of the 49 Anglo-American crew on the Soviet Socialist Republics of Armenia,
board.[2] Azerbaijan and Georgia, establishing the
boundaries between Turkey and the states of
August 25 Franklin Roosevelt, 39, is diagnosed the south Caucasus.
with poliomyelitis following a two-week illness char-
acterized by paralysis and fevers. He would be per- Swedish Social Democratic party leader
manently disabled after this illness. Hjalmar Branting becomes yet again Prime
Minister, after strong general election gains
August 26 for his party.
Rising prices cause major riots in Munich. October 19 'Bloody Night' (Noite Sangrenta): A
massacre in Lisbon claims the lives of Portuguese
The assassination of German politician
Prime-Minister Antnio Granjo and other politi-
Matthias Erzberger causes the government to
cians.
declare martial law.
October 21
1.9 September A peace conference between Ireland and the
United Kingdom begins in London.
September 1 Poplar Strike in London: Nine mem-
bers of the Poplar borough council are arrested. George Melford's wildly successful silent lm
The Sheik, which will propel its leading actor
September 7 In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the rst Rudolph Valentino to international stardom, is
Miss America Pageant is held. premiered in Los Angeles.
September 8 Sixteen-year-old Margaret Gorman October 24 The Spanish Army defeats rifkabyl
wins the Atlantic City Pageants Golden Mermaid rebels in Morocco.
trophy; pageant ocials later dub her the rst Miss
America. October 29 In the United States
September 12 The Lotta Svrd womens paramil- Construction of the Link River Dam, a part of
itary auxiliary is founded in Finland. the Klamath Project in Oregon, is completed.
Centre College's American football team, led
September 13 White Castle hamburger restau-
by quarterback Bo McMillin, defeats Harvard
rant opens in Wichita, Kansas, the foundation of the
University 60 to break Harvards ve-year
worlds rst fast food chain.
winning streak. For decades afterward, this is
September 21 The Oppau explosion occurs at called footballs upset of the century.
BASF's nitrate factory in Oppau, Germany; 500
600 are killed.
1.11 November
November 11 During an Armistice Day ceremony Agnes Macphail becomes the rst woman to
at Arlington National Cemetery, the Tomb of the be elected to the Canadian Parliament.
Unknown Soldier is dedicated by Warren G. Hard-
ing, President of the United States. December 13 In the Four-Power Treaty on Insular
Possessions, Japan, the United States, United King-
November 14 The Spanish Communist Party is dom, and France agree to recognize the status quo
founded. in the Pacic.
Undated Hyperination rampant in Germany, December 29 William Lyon Mackenzie King be-
where 263 marks are now needed to buy a single comes Canadas tenth prime minister.
American dollar, more than 20 times greater than
the 12 marks needed in April 1919.[3]
1.13 Date unknown
Main article: December 1921 Jewish immigration to Palestine grows rapidly after
the United States drastically limits immigration from
Eastern Europe.
2 Births
December 29: William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the 10th 2.1 January
Prime Minister of Canada
January 1
Friedrich Drrenmatt
Carol Channing
January 31
January 9
2.2 February
Fraser Barron, New Zealand bomber pilot dur-
ing WWII (d. 1944) February 1 Peter Sallis, English actor (Last of the
Summer Wine; Wallace and Gromit)
gnes Keleti, Hungarian artistic gymnast
Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and February 4 Betty Friedan, American feminist (d.
playwright (d. 2006) 2006)
Betty Friedan
Betty Hutton
February 26 Betty Hutton, American actress (d. Astor Piazzolla, Argentine tango composer,
2007) bandoneon player and arranger (d. 1992)
February 28 Pierre Clostermann, French World March 12
War II pilot (d. 2006)
Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (d.
2003)
2.3 March Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor
(d. 1986)
March 13
Al Jaee, American cartoonist (MAD Maga-
zine)
Cyril Poole, English cricketer (d. 1996)
March 16 King Faud of Saudi Arabia (d. 2005)
March 14 Lis Hartel, Danish equestrian athlete (d.
2009)
March 17 Meir Amit, Israeli politician and general
(d. 2009)
March 19 Tommy Cooper, Welsh prop comedian
and magician (d. 1984)
March 20 Alfrd Rnyi, Hungarian mathematician
(d. 1970)
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia
March 21 Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (d.
1986)
March 1 March 24
Jack Clayton, British lm director (d. 1995) Wilson Harris, Guyanese writer
Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Roman Vasily Smyslov, Soviet chess player (d. 2010)
Catholic prelate (d. 1983)
Richard Wilbur, American poet March 25 Simone Signoret, French actress (d.
1985)
March 2 Robert Simpson, English composer (d.
1997) March 28 Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)
March 3
2.4 April
Diana Barrymore, American actress (d. 1960)
Paul Guimard, French writer (d. 2004) April 1 Beau Jack, American boxer (d. 2000)
March 4 April 3
Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born U.S. com- Robert Karvelas, American actor (d. 1991)
poser, performer, ethnomusicologist and ed- Jan Sterling, American actress (d. 2004)
ucator
Joan Greenwood, British actress (d. 1987) April 8 Franco Corelli, Italian opera singer (d.
2003)
March 5 Elmer Valo, Czechoslovakia-born Major
League Baseball player (d. 1998) April 9
March 8 Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (Gilligans Frankie Thomas, American actor (d. 2006)
Island) (d. 1990) Yitzhak Navon, Israeli politician (d. 2015)
March 11 April 10
Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. Chuck Connors, American basketball and
2005) baseball player turned actor (d. 1992)
2.5 May 9
April 23
April 30
2.5 May
May 2 Satyajit Ray, Indian lmmaker (d. 1992)
May 9
Sheb Wooley, American actor, singer (d. Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)
2003) May 11 Hildegard Hamm-Brcher, German
politician (d. 2016)
April 14 Thomas Schelling, American economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016) May 12
10 2 BIRTHS
Jane Russell
June 12
June 21
June 9 Margaret Danhauser, American female June 28 P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of
professional baseball player (d. 1987) India (d. 2004)
12 2 BIRTHS
2.7 July
Rosalyn Yalow
July 4
Nancy Reagan
Grard Debreu, French economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2004)
Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conduc-
tor (d. 2003)
July 5
July 6
July 7
July 1 July 10
Teddy Long, Australian rules footballer (d. John K. Singlaub, U.S Army Major General
2008) Harvey Ball, American designer (d. 2001)
2.8 August 13
July 16
July 17
July 18
August 10 Yuki Shimoda, American actor (d. Mosie Lister, American singer (d. 2015)
1981) Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer (d. 2001)
August 11 September 12
August 11 Tom Kilburn the co-inventor of Stanisaw Lem, Polish science ction writer (d.
the Williams-Kilborn tube used for memory in 2006)
early computer systems (d. 1971) Frank McGee, American television personal-
ity (d. 1974)
August 13 Barney Liddell, American musician (d.
2003) September 13
August 15 K. Kailasanatha Kurukkal, Researcher, Gunnar Eriksson, Swedish Olympic cross-
Writer and Professor of Jana, Sri Lanka (d. 2000) country skiier (d. 1982)
2.10 October 15
September 24
September 27
September 30
2.10 October
Deborah Kerr
James Whitmore
16 2 BIRTHS
October 13
October 14
October 18
October 19
October 21
Steve Allen
Jackie Stallone
November 3 Charles Bronson, American actor (d. November 22 Rodney Dangereld, American ac-
2003) tor and comedian (d. 2004)
November 5 Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (d. November 23 Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and
2013) actor (d. 1960)
November 6 James Jones, American writer (d. November 24 John Lindsay, American lawyer and
1977) politician, Mayor of New York City (d. 2000)
November 8 Gene Saks, American actor and lm November 27 Alexander Dubek, Slovak politi-
director (d. 2015) cian and First Secretary of the Central Commit-
tee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d.
November 10 Owen Bush, American actor (d. 1992)
2001)
November 29 Jackie Stallone, American as-
November 11 trologer and mother of Sylvester Stallone
December 21
3 Deaths
3.1 JanuaryJune
January 1 Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, 5th
Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
February 2
February 8
February 22 Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig- February 26 Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b.
Holstein (b. 1863) 1840)
3.2 JulyDecember 19
May 19
Enrico Caruso
Engelbert Humperdinck
3.2 JulyDecember
July 1 Maurice Bailloud, French general (b. 1847)
July 3 Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
(b. 1844)
July 26 Howard Vernon, Australian actor (b.
1848)
August 2 Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
August 7 Alexander Blok, Russian poet (b. 1880)
August 8 Juhani Aho, Finnish author and journal-
ist (b. 1861)
August 16 Peter I of Serbia, King of Yugoslavia
(b. 1844)
August 19 Georges Darien, French writer (b.
1862)
August 31 Karl von Blow, German eld marshal
(b. 1846)
September 2 Henry Austin Dobson, English poet
(b. 1840)
September 7 Alfred William Rich, English water-
John Boyd Dunlop
colour painter (b. 1856)
September 9
3.2 JulyDecember 21
Abdul-Baha
Camille Saint-Saens
December 10 George Ashlin, Irish architect (b. [3] Weimar Germany 1919-1933. Historyhome.co.uk.
1837) 2011-01-05. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
4 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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