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1921
1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
Events
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January 2 - The first religious radio broadcast (KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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January 2 - Spanish liner Santa Isabel sinks off Villa Garcia - 244 dead
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January 2 - DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park San Francisco opens.
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January 20 - Republic of Turkey is declared
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January 20 - Royal Navy K-boat K5 sinks in the English Channel with all 56 hands
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February 25 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
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February 28 - Russian sailors rebel in Kronstadt - On March 17 the Red Army crushes the rebellion and number of sailors flee to Finland
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March 1 - the city Kiryu, located in Gunma, Japan, is founded.
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March 8 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
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March 13 - Mongolia declares its independence from China
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March 17 - Marie Stopes opens the first Birth Control Clinic in London, England. The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
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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.
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April 11 - The Emirate of Transjordan is created, with Abdullah I as emir.
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April 14 - In Britain, labour unions for mining, railway and transportation workers call for a strike - government threatens to call in the army
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April 24 - Referendum in Tyrol supports joining to Germany
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May 1-7 - Riots in Palestine of May, 1921
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2 May-5 July - Third Silesian Uprising, the Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans
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May 5 - Only 13 spectators attend the soccer match between Leicester City and Stockport County, the lowest attendance in Football League history.
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May 6 - General strike begins in Norway
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May 8 - Death penalty abolished in Sweden
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May 14 - 17 - Violent anti-European riots in Cairo and Alexandria
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May 19 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the U.S. Congress establishing national quotas on immigration.
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May 24 - Elections are held for the first time for the new Northern Ireland Parliament.
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June 1 - Tulsa Race Riot of 1921: A race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma kills 85 people.
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June 26 - In Britain, rain ends 100 days of drought
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July 1 - Coal strike ends in England
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July 11 - The Irish War of Independence comes to an end when a truce is signed between the British Government and the Irish forces.
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July 18 - The first BCG vaccination against tuberculosis
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July 22 - Irish Truce declared in Britain
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July 26 - US President Warren G. Harding receives Princess Fatima of Afghanistan - and Stanley Clifford Weyman...
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July 27 - Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.
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August - The United States formally ends World War I, declaring a peace with Germany
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August 5 - First radio broadcast of baseball game; Harold Arlin announced Pirates-Phillies game from Forbes Field over Westinghouse KDKA Pittsburgh
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August 11 - 35 degree Celsius in Breslau - heat wave continues elsewhere in Europe as well
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August 23 - Feisal I becomes the king of Egypt
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August 24 - Airship ZR 2 explodes during a test flight near Hull, England - 41 dead
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August 26 - Rising prices cause riots in Munich
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August 29 - Assassination of German politician Matthias Erzberger causes the government to declare martial law
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September 1 - Poplar Strike in London - 9 members of Poplar borough council are arrested
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September 7 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant is held.
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September 12 - Lotta Svärd founded in Finland
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September 21 - explosion of BASF's nitrate factory in Oppau, Germany - 535-561 dead[1][2][3][4]]VO/exinvolontaireVO.htm
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October 10 - Teaching at the University of Szeged started in Hungary
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October 21 - Peace conference between Irish and United Kingdom begins in London
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October 24 - Spanish army defeats rifkabyls
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November 9 - Riots in Reykjavík - most of the small police force is injured
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November 11 - During an Armistice Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, the Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding.
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December 1 - Rising prices cause riots in Vienna
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December 16 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State is signed in London. See Ireland/History
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December 29 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Canada's tenth prime minister.
Births
January
February
March
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March 1 - Jack Clayton, film director
- March 1 - Richard Wilbur, American poet
- March 1 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, seventh archbishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York (d. 1983)
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March 3 - Paul Guimard, French writer (d. 2004)
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March 5 - Elmer Valo, Major League Baseball player (d. 1998)
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March 8 - Cyd Charisse, actress, dancer
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March 12 - Giovanni Agnelli, Italian manager of Fiat (d. 2003)
- March 12 - Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (d. 1986)
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March 13 - Al Jaffee, American cartoonist
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March 20 - Rudolf Noelte , film director (d. 2002)
- March 20 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe, singer (d. 1973)
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March 21 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (d. 1986)
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March 25 - Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
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March 28 - Dirk Bogarde, American actor (d. 1999)
April
May
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May 2 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (d. 1992)
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May 6 - Erich Fried, author (d. 1988)
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May 9 - Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
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May 11 - Hildegard Hamm-Brücher , German politician
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May 12 - Joseph Beuys, artist (d. 1986)
- May 12 - Farley Mowat, writer, naturalist
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May 17 - Dennis Brain, English French horn player (d. 1957)
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May 19 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999)
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May 20 - Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (d. 1947)
- May 20 - Hal Newhouser, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1998)
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May 21 - Andrei Sakharov, physicist, human rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1989)
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May 23 - James Blish, American science fiction author (d. 1975)
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May 26 - Stan Mortensen, footballer
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May 28 - Heinz G. Konsalik, author (d. 1999)
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Deaths
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