
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1918 1919 1920 - 1921 - 1922 1923 1924 |-0 | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ==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 industrial action - government threatens to call in the army * April 24 - Referendum in Tyrol supports joining to Germany * May 1-May 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 - May 17 - Violent anti-European riots in Cairo and Alexandria * May 19 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the Congress of the United States 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. ** Mongolia becomes independent of China * July 14 - A Massachusetts jury finds Sacco and Vanzetti guilty of first degree murder following a widely-publicized trial. * July 18 - The first Bacillus Calmette-Guérin 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 29 - Adolf Hitler becomes Chairman of the National Socialist German Workers' Party * 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 Kingston upon 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 of Canada. * Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to enter Canadian parliament * Change of President of the United States 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== ===Date Unknown=== Norma Macmillan voice actress (d. 2001) ===January=== * January 5 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990) **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 **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 (composer), English composer (d. 1997) * March 3 - Paul Guimard, French writer (d. 2004) * March 5 - Elmer Valo, Czech 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 - Gianni Agnelli, Italian manager of Fiat (d. 2003) **Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (d. 1986) * March 13 - Al Jaffee, American cartoonist *Cyril Poole, English Cricketer (d. 1996) * 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, English 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, Soviet 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-Brucher, German politician * May 12 - Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986) **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) **Hal Newhouser, American Baseball Hall of Fame (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 15 - Errol Garner, American jazz musician (d. 1977) * 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 10 - Harvey Ball, American designer (d. 2001) * 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) **William Chester Owens, World War II pilot * August 4 - Maurice Richard, Canadian Ice Hockey Player (d. 2000) * August 8 - John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (d. 1979) * August 9 - J. James Exon former governor and senator of Nebraska (d. 2005) * 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 8, Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer (d. 2001) * September 12, Stanislaw Lem, Polish science fiction writer * October 2 - Robert Runcie, English Archbishop of Canterbury (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 soccer manager * November 14 - Brian Keith, American actor (d. 1997) * 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 6 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed between the delegations of Ireland and England in London. * 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, English cricketer (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) * September 27 - Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854) * October 25 - Bat Masterson, American gunfighter * December 16 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835) ==Nobel Prize== * Nobel Prize/Physics - Albert Einstein * Nobel Prize/Chemistry - Frederick Soddy * Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine - not awarded * Nobel Prize in literature - Anatole France * Nobel Prize/Peace - Karl Hjalmar Branting Christian Lous Lange 1921 bs:1921 ga:1921 la:1921 os:1921 se:1921 scn:1921 simple:1921
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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1918 1919 1920 - 1921 - 1922 1923 1924 |-0 | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ==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 industrial action - government threatens to call in the army * April 24 - Referendum in Tyrol supports joining to Germany * May 1-May 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 - May 17 - Violent anti-European riots in Cairo and Alexandria * May 19 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the Congress of the United States 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. ** Mongolia becomes independent of China * July 14 - A Massachusetts jury finds Sacco and Vanzetti guilty of first degree murder following a widely-publicized trial. * July 18 - The first Bacillus Calmette-Guérin 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 29 - Adolf Hitler becomes Chairman of the National Socialist German Workers' Party * 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 Kingston upon 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 of Canada. * Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to enter Canadian parliament * Change of President of the United States 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== ===Date Unknown=== Norma Macmillan voice actress (d. 2001) ===January=== * January 5 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990) **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 **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 (composer), English composer (d. 1997) * March 3 - Paul Guimard, French writer (d. 2004) * March 5 - Elmer Valo, Czech 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 - Gianni Agnelli, Italian manager of Fiat (d. 2003) **Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (d. 1986) * March 13 - Al Jaffee, American cartoonist *Cyril Poole, English Cricketer (d. 1996) * 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, English 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, Soviet 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-Brucher, German politician * May 12 - Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986) **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) **Hal Newhouser, American Baseball Hall of Fame (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 15 - Errol Garner, American jazz musician (d. 1977) * 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 10 - Harvey Ball, American designer (d. 2001) * 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) **William Chester Owens, World War II pilot * August 4 - Maurice Richard, Canadian Ice Hockey Player (d. 2000) * August 8 - John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (d. 1979) * August 9 - J. James Exon former governor and senator of Nebraska (d. 2005) * 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 8, Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer (d. 2001) * September 12, Stanislaw Lem, Polish science fiction writer * October 2 - Robert Runcie, English Archbishop of Canterbury (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 soccer manager * November 14 - Brian Keith, American actor (d. 1997) * 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 6 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed between the delegations of Ireland and England in London. * 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, English cricketer (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) * September 27 - Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854) * October 25 - Bat Masterson, American gunfighter * December 16 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835) ==Nobel Prize== * Nobel Prize/Physics - Albert Einstein * Nobel Prize/Chemistry - Frederick Soddy * Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine - not awarded * Nobel Prize in literature - Anatole France * Nobel Prize/Peace - Karl Hjalmar Branting Christian Lous Lange 1921 bs:1921 ga:1921 la:1921 os:1921 se:1921 scn:1921 simple:1921
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