1921

Categories: 1921

Years:
1918 1919 1920 - 1921(MCMXXI) - 1922 1923 1924

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1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).

1 Events
- 1.1 Fictitious Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel Prizes

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Events

January 1 - In American 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 - 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 strike - 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 The Football League's history.
May 6 - General strike begins in Norway
May 8 - Death penalty abolished in Sweden
May 14 - 17 - Violent anti-European riots in Cairo and Alexandria
May 19 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the U.S. Congress establishing national quotas on immigration.
May 31 - Race riots in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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 11 - Mongolia becomes independent of China
July 14 - A Massachusetts jury finds Nichola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti guilty of first degree murder following a widely-publicized trial.
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 29 - Adolf Hitler becomes Chairman of the Nazi 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 - King Faisal is crowned in Baghdad
August 24 - Airship ZR 2 explodes during a test flight near 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 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 - 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.
October 29 - Construction of the Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project completed.
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 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.

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)
Invention of the vibraphone.
Abkhazia becomes an autonomous republic within the Soviet Union.