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1921

Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Events of 1921

January

January 1 - In American football, the University of California defeated Ohio State 28-1 in the Rose Bowl.
January 2

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.
January 20 - The Royal Navy K-boat K5 sinks in the English Channel with all 56 hands on board.
January 21

The Italian Communist Party is founded in Livorno.
Suffrage for women is obtained in Sweden.

February

February 6 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia is occupied by Bolshevist Russia during the Red Army invasion of Georgia.
February 27 - The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is formed in Vienna.
February 28 - Russian sailors rebel in Kronstadt.

March

March 1 - The city Kiryu, located in Gunma, Japan, is founded.
March 4 - Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th President of the United States.
March 6 - The Portuguese Communist Party is founded.
March 8

Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
Allied forces occupy Düsseldorf, Rurhort and Duisburg.

March 13 - The Russian White Army captures Mongolia from China. Roman Ungern von Sternberg declares himself ruler.
March 17

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.

March 18 - The second Peace of Riga ends the Polish-Soviet war. The permanent border is established between the Polish and Soviet states.
March 23 - A plebiscite in Silesia votes for re-annexation to Germany.

April

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; the government threatens to call in the army.
April 16 - The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia is founded.
April 20 - 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.
April 24 - A referendum in Tyrol supports joining to Germany.

May

May 1-May 7 - Riots in Palestine of May, 1921.
May 2-July 5 - 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 The Football League's history.
May 6 - General strike begins in Norway.
May 8 - Death penalty abolished in Sweden.
May 14 - May 17 - Violent anti-European riots occur 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.
May 31 - Tulsa Race Riot: The official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.

July

July 1

The Communist Party of China is officially founded.
A coal strike ends in England.

July 2 - U.S. President Warren Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring an end to America's state of war with Germany, Austria and Hungary.
July 4 - A new conservative government is formed in Italy by Ivanoe Bonomi.
July 11

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.

July 14 - A Massachusetts jury finds Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti guilty of first degree murder following a widely-publicized trial.
July 17 - Republic of Mirdita is proclaimed near Albanian-Serbian border with Yugoslav support.
July 18 - The first BCG vaccination against tuberculosis is given.
July 21 - Rif War: Spanish troops are dealt a crushing defeat at the Battle of Annual against Abd el-Krim.
July 22 - The Irish Truce is 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.
July 29 - Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of the Nazi Party.

August

August - The United States formally ends World War I, declaring a peace with Germany.
August 2 - Famous opera singer Enrico Caruso dies.
August 5 - The first radio baseball game is broadcast; Harold Arlin announces the Pirates-Phillies game from Forbes Field over Westinghouse KDKA, in Pittsburgh.
August 11 - 39 degrees Celsius in Breslau - heat wave continues elsewhere in Europe as well.
August 23 - King Faisal is crowned in Baghdad.
August 24 - Airship ZR 2 explodes during a test flight near Hull, England; 41 are dead.
August 26
Rising prices cause major riots in Munich.
The assassination of German politician Matthias Erzberger causes the government to declare martial law.

September

September 1 - Poplar Strike in London: Nine members of the Poplar borough council are arrested.
September 7 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant is held.
September 8 - Sixteen-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dub her the first Miss America.
September 12 - Lotta Svärd is founded in Finland.
September 21 - The Oppau explosion occurs at BASF's nitrate factory in Oppau, Germany; 500—600 dead.

October

October 8 - The first Sweetest Day is staged in Cleveland, Ohio.
October 10 - Teaching at the University of Szeged starts in Hungary.
October 19 - A massacre in Lisbon claims the lives of Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians.
October 21 - A peace conference between Ireland and the United Kingdom begins in London.
October 24 - The Spanish Army defeats the rifkabyls.
October 29
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

November 9

Riots in Reykjavík injure most of the small police force.
Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect

November 11 - During an Armistice Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, the Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by U.S. President Warren G. Harding.
November 14 - The Spanish Communist Party is founded.
November 7 - The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence in Italy.
December 1 - Rising prices cause riots in Vienna.
December 6 - 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.
December 13 - 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.
December 23 - Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
December 29 - 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

January-February

January 5

Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

January 9

William 'Billy Batts' Devino (d. 1970)
Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)

January 10 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d. 2004)
January 14 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)
January 19 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
January 27 - Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)
January 31

Carol Channing, American actress
Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (d. 1959)

February 4

Betty Friedan, American feminist (d. 2006)
K. R. Narayanan, President of India (d. 2005)

February 5 - John Pritchard, English conductor (d. 1989)
February 7 - Nexhmije Hoxha, the widow of Enver Hoxha
February 11 - Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (d. 2006)
February 14 - Hugh Downs, American game show host and journalist
February 16 - Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (d. 1981)
February 20 - Buddy Rogers, American professional wrestler (d. 1992)
February 22 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
February 24 - Abe Vigoda, American actor
February 25 - Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (assassinated) (d. 1970)
February 26 - Betty Hutton, American actress (d. 2007)
February 28 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006)

March-April

March 1

Jack Clayton, British film director (d. 1995)
Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (d. 1983)
Richard Wilbur, American poet

March 2 - Robert Simpson, English composer (d. 1997)
March 3 - Paul Guimard, French writer (d. 2004)
March 4

Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born U.S. composer, performer, ethnomusicologist and educator
Joan Greenwood, British actress and director (d. 1987)
Wilson Harris, Guyanese writer