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 architecture 1921 in aviation 1921 in film 1921 in literature 1921 in music 1921 in science 1921 in sports 1921 in Canada 1921 in France 1921 in Germany 1921 in Greece 1921 in India 1921 in the United Kingdom

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel Prizes
5 Heads of state in 1921

Events

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 the Soviet Russia.
February 28 - Russian sailors rebel in Kronstadt - At March 17 Red Army crushes the rebellion and number of sailors flee to Finland
March 1 - the city Kiryu, located in Gunma, Japan, is founded.
March 8 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato 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
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.
May 1-7 - Riots in Palestine of May, 1921
April 14 - In Britain, labor 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 6 - General strike begins in Norway
May 5 - Only 13 spectators follow the soccer match between Leicester City and Stockport county
May 8 - Death penalty abolished in Sweden
May 14 - 17 - Violent anti-European riots in [[Cairo]9 and Alexandria
May 19 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the United States 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 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 11 - 35 degree Celsius in Breslau - heat wave continues elsewhere in the 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 prizes 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 - Chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshaven, Germany - 535-561 dead
October 21 - Peace conference between Irish and United Kingdom begins in London
October 24 - Spanish army defeats rifkabyls
November 9 - Riots in Reykjavik - 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 prizes 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)
Discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto by Frederick Banting, Charles Best, James Collip, and J.J.R. Macleod
Invention of the vibraphone.

Births

January 5 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer (d. 1990)
January 5 - Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg
January 6 - Louis Harris, pollster
January 10 - Rodger Ward, auto racer, two-time Indianapolis 500 winner (d. 2004)
January 19 - Patricia Highsmith, author (d. 1995)
January 20 - Bernt Engelmann, author (d. 1994)
January 27 - Donna Reed, actress (d. 1986)
January 31 - Carol Channing, actress
January 31 - Mario Lanza, singer, actor (d. 1959)
February 4 - Betty Friedan, feminist
February 11 - Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (d. 1996)
February 11 - Lloyd Bentsen, American politician.
February 14 - Hugh Downs, game show host, journalist
February 24 - Abe Vigoda, actor
February 25 - Pierre Laporte, statesman, murdered by FLQ terrorists
March 1 - Jack Clayton, film director
March 1 - Richard Wilbur, American poet
March 1 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, tenth bishop (seventh archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York († 1983)
March 3 - Paul Guimard, French writer (d. 2004)
March 8 - Cyd Charisse, actress, dancer
March 12 - Giovanni Agnelli, manager of Fiat
March 12 - Gordon MacRae, singer, actor (d. 1986)
March 20 - Rudolf Noelte, film director (d. 2002)
March 20 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe, singer (d. 1973)
March 25 - Simone Signoret, actress (d. 1985)
March 28 - Dirk Bogarde, actor (d. 1999)
April 15 - Georgi Beregovoi, cosmonaut
April 23 - Warren Spahn, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2003)
May 2 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker.
May 6 - Erich Fried, author (d. 1988)
May 9 - Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter with White Rose in Nazi Germany
May 11 - Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, politician
May 12 - Joseph Beuys, artist (d. 1986)
May 12 - Farley Mowat, writer, naturalist
May 19 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999)
May 20 - Wolfgang Borchert, lyricist, narrator and dramatist (d. 1947)
May 20 - Hal Newhouser, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1998)
May 21 - Andrei Sakharov, physicist, human rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1989)
May 23 - James Blish, US science fiction author
May 28 - Heinz G. Konsalik, author (d. 1999)
June 1 - Nelson Riddle, bandleader (d. 1985)
June 10 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
June 26 - Violette Szabo, SOE agent, WW II heroine (d. 1945)
July 4 - Tibor Varga, violinist, conductor and pedagogue
July 17 - Hannah Szenes, WW II heroine executed by the Nazis (d. 1944)
July 30 - William Chester Owens, WW II plane captain of USN Ace Capt. David McCampbell
October 13 - Yves Montand, French singer and actor
October 25 - King Michael of Romania
November 5 - Princess Fawzia of Egypt
November 22 - Rodney Dangerfield, actor, comedian
December 26 - Steve Allen, actor, composer, comedian, author (d. 2000)

Deaths

February 8 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist
March 2 - King Nicholas of Montenegro
June 5 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright
September 11 - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil Indian poet
October 25 - Bat Masterson, "Wild West" legend
December 16 - Camille Saint-Saëns, composer

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Albert Einstein
Chemistry - Frederick Soddy
Medicine - not awarded
Literature - Anatole France
Peace - Karl Hjalmar Branting Christian Lous Lange