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'''1921''' '''(MCMXXI)''' was a [[common year starting on Saturday]] (see link for calendar).

==Events==
{{Year B}}
===January===
* [[January 1]] - In [[American football]], the [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California]] defeats [[Ohio State University|Ohio State]] 28-0 in the [[Rose Bowl Game|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]] - [[Royal Navy]] [[K class submarine|K-boat]] ''[[HMS K5|K5]]'' sinks in the [[English Channel]] with all 56 hands

===February===
* [[February 25]] - The [[Democratic Republic of Georgia]] is occupied by [[Bolshevist Russia.]]
* [[February 27]] - The [[International Working Union of Socialist Parties]] is formed in [[Vienna]]
* [[February 28]] - [[Russia]]n sailors rebel in [[Kronstadt]] - On

===March===
*[[March 17]] the [[Red Army]] crushes the rebellion and a 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===
* [[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|strike]] - government threatens to call in the army
* [[April 24]] - [[Referendum]] in [[Tyrol]] supports joining to [[Germany]]

===May===
* [[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 F.C.|Leicester City]] and [[Stockport County F.C.|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 in [[Cairo]] and [[Alexandria]]
* [[May 19]] - The [[Emergency Quota Act]] passes the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] establishing national quotas on [[immigration]].
* [[May 31]] - [[Tulsa Race Riot]]: A [[civil unrest]] in [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]],[[USA]], the official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
* [[May 24]] - Elections are held for the first time for the new [[Northern Ireland]] Parliament.

===June===
* [[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===
* [[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 11]] - [[Mongolia]] becomes independent of [[China]]
* [[July 14]] - A Massachusetts jury finds [[Sacco and Vanzetti|Nichola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti]] guilty of first degree murder following a widely-publicized trial.
* [[July 18]] - The first [[Bacillus Calmette-Guérin|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 29]] - [[Adolf Hitler]] becomes Chairman of the [[National Socialist German Workers' Party|Nazi Party]]
* [[July 27]] - Researchers at the [[University of Toronto]] led by biochemist [[Frederick Banting]] announce the discovery of the hormone [[insulin]].

===August===
* [[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]] - King [[Faisal I of Iraq|Faisal]] is crowned in [[Baghdad]]
* [[August 24]] - [[Airship ZR 2]] explodes during a test flight near [[Kingston upon Hull|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===
* [[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 8]] - 16-year-old [[Margaret Gorman]] won the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first [[Miss America]].
* [[September 12]] - [[Lotta Svärd]] founded in [[Finland]].
* [[September 21]] - [[Oppau explosion]] happened at [[BASF]]'s [[nitrate]] factory in [[Oppau]], [[Germany]] - 500—600 dead.

===October===
* [[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 [[rifkabyl]]s.
* [[October 29]] - Construction of the [[Link River Dam]], a part of the [[Klamath Reclamation Project]] completed.

===November===
* [[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===
* [[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 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 29]] - [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] becomes [[Canada]]'s tenth [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]].

===unknown dates===
* [[Agnes Macphail]] becomes the first woman to enter Canadian parliament
* Change of [[President of the United States|US presidency]] from [[Woodrow Wilson]] ([[1913]]-1921) to [[Warren G. Harding]] (1921-[[1923]])
* Invention of the [[vibraphone]].
* [[Abkhazia]] becomes an autonomous republic within the [[Soviet Union]].
* [[Edward Harper]] the ' father of broadcasting ' in Ceylon arrives in Colombo to take up his post as Chief Engineer of the Ceylon Telegraph Department.

===Fictitious Events===
1921 is a song on the album [[Tommy]] by [[The Who]].

==Births==
===Date unknown===
*[[Norma Macmillan]], voice actress (d. [[2001]])

===January===
*[[January 5]] - [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]], Swiss writer (d. [[1990]])
*[[January 5]] - [[Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg]]
*[[January 10]] - [[Rodger Ward]], American race car driver (d. [[2004]])
*[[January 19]] - [[Patricia Highsmith]], American author (d. [[1995]])
*[[January 27]] - [[Donna Reed]], American actress (d. [[1986]])
*[[January 31]] - [[Carol Channing]], American actress
*[[January 31]] - [[Mario Lanza]], American tenor (d. [[1959]])

===February===
*[[February 4]] - [[Betty Friedan]], American feminist
*[[February 4]] - [[K. R. Narayanan]], [[President of India]] (d. [[2005]])
*[[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 20]] - [["Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers|Buddy Rogers]] (Herman C. Rohde Jr.), professional wrestler, first [[WWE Championship|WWWF World Heavyweight Champion]] (d. [[1992]])
*[[February 22]] - [[Wayne Booth]], American literary critic (d. [[2005]])
*[[February 25]] - [[Pierre Laporte]], Canadian statesman (assassinated) (d. [[1970]])

===March===
*[[March 1]] - [[Jack Clayton]], British film director
*[[March 1]] - [[Terence Cardinal Cooke]], American Catholic archbishop (d. [[1983]])
*[[March 1]] - [[Richard Wilbur]], American poet
*[[March 2]] - [[Robert Simpson (composer)|Robert Simpson]], 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]], American mathematician (d. [[2005]])
*[[March 12]] - [[Gianni Agnelli|Giovanni Agnelli]], Italian auto executive (d. [[2003]])
*[[March 12]] - [[Gordon MacRae]], American singer and actor (d. [[1986]])
*[[March 13]] - [[Al Jaffee]], American cartoonist
*[[March 13]] - [[Cyril Poole]], English cricketer (d. [[1996]])
*[[March 20]] - [[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===
*[[April 1]] - [[Beau Jack]], American boxer (d. [[2000]])
*[[April 8]] - [[Franco Corelli]], Italian tenor (d. [[2003]])
*[[April 10]] - [[Sheb Wooley]], American actor and singer (d. [[2003]])
*[[April 14]] - [[Thomas Schelling]], American economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[April 15]] - [[Georgi Beregovoi]], Soviet cosmonaut (d. [[1995]])
*[[April 16]] - [[Peter Ustinov]], English actor and director (d. [[2004]])
*[[April 23]] - [[Warren Spahn]], baseball player (d. [[2003]])

===May===
*[[May 2]] - [[Satyajit Ray]], Indian filmmaker (d. [[1992]])
*[[May 5]] - [[Arthur Leonard Schawlow]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1999]])
*[[May 6]] - [[Erich Fried]], Austrian author (d. [[1988]])
*[[May 9]] - [[Sophie Scholl]], resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. [[1943]])
*[[May 9]] - [[Mona Van Duyn]], American poet (d. [[2004]])
*[[May 11]] - [[Hildegard Hamm-Brücher]], German politician
*[[May 12]] - [[Joseph Beuys]], German artist (d. [[1986]])
*[[May 12]] - [[Farley Mowat]], Canadian writer and naturalist
*[[May 17]] - [[Dennis Brain]], English French horn player (d. [[1957]])
*[[May 18]] - Sir [[Michael Epstein]], British medical researcher
*[[May 19]] - [[Karel van het Reve]], Dutch writer (d. [[1999]])
*[[May 20]] - [[Wolfgang Borchert]], German writer (d. [[1947]])
*[[May 20]] - [[Hal Newhouser]], baseball player (d. [[1998]])
*[[May 21]] - [[Andrei Sakharov]], Russian physicist and activist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (declined) (d. [[1989]])
*[[May 23]] - [[James Blish]], American science fiction author (d. [[1975]])
*[[May 25]] - [[Jack Steinberger]], German-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[May 25]] - [[James C. Quayle]], American newspaper publisher
*[[May 26]] - [[Stan Mortensen]], English footballer (d. [[1991]])
*[[May 28]] - [[Heinz G. Konsalik]], German author (d. [[1999]])

===June===
*[[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 25]] - [[Celia Franca]], Canadian ballet dancer
*[[June 26]] - [[Violette Szabo]], French World War II heroine (d. [[1945]])
*[[June 28]] - [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]], [[Prime Minister of India]] (d. [[2004]])

===July===
*[[July 4]] - [[Gerard Debreu]], French economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2004]])
*[[July 4]] - [[Tibor Varga]], Hungarian violinist and conductor (d. [[2003]])
*[[July 6]]- [[Nancy Davis Reagan]], wife of U.S President [[Ronald Reagan]]
*[[July 10]] - [[Harvey Ball]], American designer (d. [[2001]])
*[[July 11]] - [[Ilse Werner]], German actress (d. [[2005]])
*[[July 13]] - [[Friedrich Peter]], Austrian poltitician (d. [[2005]])
*[[July 14]] - [[Leon Garfield]], English children's author (d. [[1996]])
*[[July 14]] - [[Geoffrey Wilkinson]], English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[July 15]] - [[Robert Bruce Merrifield]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[July 17]] - [[František Zvarík]], Slovakian actor
*[[July 17]] - [[Hannah Szenes]], Hungarian World War II heroine (d. [[1944]])
*[[July 18]] - [[John Glenn]], American astronaut
*[[July 19]] - [[Rosalyn Sussman Yalow]], American physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[July 22]] - [[William Roth]], U.S. Senator (d. [[2003]])
*[[July 30]] - [[Grant Johannesen]], American concert pianist (d. [[2005]])

===August===
*[[August 4]] - [[Maurice Richard]], Canadian hockey player (d. [[2000]])
*[[August 8]] - [[John Herbert Chapman]], Canadian physicist (d. [[1979]])
*[[August 9]] - [[J. James Exon]] Governor of Nebraska and U.S. Senator (d. [[2005]])
*[[August 19]] - [[Gene Roddenberry]], American television producer (d. [[1991]])
*[[August 23]] - [[Kenneth Arrow]], American economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[August 25]] - [[Monty Hall]], Canadian actor and game show host

===September===
* [[September 3]] - [[Thurston Dart]], English harpsichordist and conductor (d. [[1971]])
* [[September 8]] - [[Harry Secombe]], Welsh entertainer (d. [[2001]])
* [[September 12]] - [[Stanisław Lem]], Polish science fiction writer
* [[September 30]] - [[Deborah Kerr]], Scottish Actress

===October===
* [[October 2]] - [[Robert Runcie]], [[Archbishop 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===
* [[November 3]] - [[Charles Bronson]], American actor (d. [[2003]])
* [[November 5]] - Princess [[Fawzia of Egypt]]
* [[November 11]] - [[Ron Greenwood]], English football 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 27]] - [[Alexander Dubček]], Slovak politician and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. [[1992]])

===December===
* [[December 3]] - [[Phyllis Curtin]], American soprano
* [[December 6]] - [[Otto Graham]], American football player (d. [[2003]])
* [[December 26]] - [[Steve Allen]], American actor, composer, comedian, and author (d. [[2000]])

==Deaths==

===February===
* [[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===
* [[March 2]] - King [[Nicholas I of Montenegro]] (b. [[1841]])

===April===
* [[April 27]] - [[Arthur Mold]], English cricketer (b. [[1863]])

===May===
* [[May 5]] - [[Alfred Hermann Fried]], Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1864]])

===June===
* [[June 5]] - [[Georges Feydeau]], French playwright (b. [[1862]])

===August===
* [[August 2]] - [[Enrico Caruso]], Italian tenor (b. [[1873]])

===September===
* [[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===
* [[October 25]] - [[Bat Masterson]], American gunfighter

===November===
* [[November 28]] - [[`Abdu'l-Bahá]], Persian religious leader (b. [[1844]])

===December===
* [[December 16]] - [[Camille Saint-Saëns]], French composer (b. [[1835]])
* [[December 31]] - [[Boies Penrose]], United States Senator from Pennsylvania (b. [[1860]])

==Nobel Prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize/Physics|Physics]] - [[Albert Einstein]]
* [[Nobel Prize/Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Frederick Soddy]]
* [[Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine|Medicine]] - not awarded
* [[Nobel Prize in literature|Literature]] - [[Anatole France]]
* [[Nobel Prize/Peace|Peace]] - [[Karl Hjalmar Branting]], [[Christian Lous Lange]]


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1921 - Revision history

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