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Months in Year 1921: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 232

Jan 2nd - 1st religious service radio broadcast in US, KDKA-Pittsburgh
Jan 2nd - DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
Jan 3rd - Turkey makes peace with Armenia
Jan 4th - Eugene O'Neill's "Diff'rent," premieres in NYC
Jan 12th - Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes 1st commissioner of baseball
Jan 18th - William Archer's "Green Goddess," premieres in NYC
Jan 19th - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union
Jan 20th - British submarine K5 leaves with man & mouse
Jan 20th - Dagestan ASSR forms in RSFSR
Jan 20th - Mountain Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR
Jan 20th - Turkey declared in remnants of Ottoman Empire
Jan 21st - The Italian Communist Party was founded at Livorno.
Jan 25th - Karel Capék's "RUR," premieres in Prague
Jan 26th - Soccer team GVAV of Groningen Neth forms
Jan 26th - Toronto St Pat Corb Denneny scores 6 goals vs Hamilton Tigers
Jan 29th - Hurricane hits Washington & Oregon
Jan 30th - French rapist-murderer Henri-Desire Landru sentenced to death
Feb 5th - Yankees purchase 20 acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium
Feb 6th - "The Kid," starring Charlie Chaplin & Jackie Coogan, released
Feb 11th - Ambassador Theater opens at 215 W 49th St NYC
Feb 12th - Soviet troops invade Georgia (theirs, not ours)
Feb 12th - Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies
Feb 14th - Canadian 5 cent nickel coin is authorized
Feb 14th - Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," NY
Feb 15th - Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 v England, Australian Test Cricket rec
Feb 17th - Arthur Honegger's "Pastorale D'ete," premieres
Feb 18th - British troops occupy Dublin
Feb 20th - Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran
Feb 21st - Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
Feb 23rd - 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in NYC from SF
Feb 24th - 1st transcontinental flight in 24 hrs flying time arrives Florida
Feb 25th - Georgian SSR proclaimed
Feb 25th - Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
Feb 27th - US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
Feb 27th - US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
Feb 27th - The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
Mar 1st - Australia Cricket team complete 5-0 drubbing of England
Mar 1st - Rwanda ceded to England
Mar 1st - Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia
Mar 3rd - Toronto's Dr Banting & Dr Best announce discovery of insulin
Mar 4th - Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas
Mar 6th - Police in Sunbury Penn issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
Mar 7th - Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt
Mar 8th - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
Mar 13th - Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China
Mar 17th - Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London)
Mar 17th - Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics
Mar 17th - Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)
Mar 17th - The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
Mar 18th - 2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged
Mar 18th - Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000
Mar 19th - Italian Fascists shoot from the Parenzana train at a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia): two children are killed, two mangled and three wounded.
Mar 21st - Walter Kerr Theater (Ritz, CBS, NBC, ABC) opens at 223 W 48th St NYC
Mar 31st - British coal miners goes on strike
Apr 2nd - Prof Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new theory of relativity
Apr 4th - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2
Apr 11th - Iowa imposed 1st state cigarette tax
Apr 11th - KDKA broadcast 1st radio sporting event, a boxing match (Ray-Dundee)
Apr 11th - Turkestan ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
Apr 11th - First sports broadcast on the radio takes place.
Apr 11th - The Emirate of Transjordan is created.
Apr 13th - Foundation of the Spanish Communist Workers' Party.
Apr 14th - NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators sweep Toronto St Patricks in 2 games
Apr 14th - Prince Henry opens Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Bremen-Hamburg air route
Apr 15th - Black Friday- Labour Party strike of mine workers fails
Apr 16th - Liberal Freedom League forms in The Hague
Apr 18th - Junior Achievement incorporated in Colorado Springs Colo
Apr 18th - Philip James Barry's "Punch for Judy," premieres in NYC
Apr 19th - 25th Boston Marathon won by Frank Zuna of NJ in 2:18:57.6
Apr 19th - Funeral of last German Emperoress, Augusta Victoria
Apr 21st - Ottawa Senators beat Vanc Millionaires 3 games to 2 for Stanley Cup [or 4/4]
Apr 23rd - Charles Paddock runs world record 100m (10.4 secs)
Apr 24th - 1st municipal elections for men & women in Belgium
Apr 27th - Hadjememaar, [Corn de Gelder] elected in Amsterdam
Apr 30th - American Professional Football Assn reorganizes in Akron
Apr 30th - Pope Benedict XV encyclical "On Dante"
May 1st - Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda
May 2nd - Begin 3rd anti-German revolt in Upper-Silesia
May 3rd - West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax
May 5th - 1st ranger for Cleveland Metroparks hired
May 5th - Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm)
May 6th - American Soccer League forms
May 7th - 47th Kentucky Derby: Charles Thompson on Behave Yourself wins 2:04.2
May 8th - Sweden abolished capital punishment
May 10th - Luigi Pirandello's "Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore," premieres
May 11th - Tel Aviv is 1st all Jewish municipality
May 12th - National Hospital Day 1st observed
May 14th - Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death
May 14th - Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliament seats
May 16th - 47th Preakness: F Coltiletti aboard Broomspun wins in 1:54.2
May 17th - Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union
May 17th - President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show
May 19th - Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system
May 21st - Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co
May 23rd - "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC
May 24th - 1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected
May 24th - British Legion forms
May 27th - Afghanistan gains sovereignty
May 27th - After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty
May 30th - Lord Dunsany's "If," premieres in London

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 578

Jan 1st - Alain Mimoun O'Kacha, Algerian/French cross country (Oly-gold-1956)
Jan 1st - Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian philosopher (d. 1986)
Jan 2nd - Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
Jan 3rd - John Russell, LA Calif, actor (Pale Rider, Rio Bravo)
Jan 5th - Friedrich Dörrenmatt, Switzerland, playwright/novelist (Visit)
Jan 5th - Jean BMRLAAM d'Aviano, grand duke of Luxembourg (1964- )
Jan 5th - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)
Jan 6th - Cary Middlecoff, golfer (1956 Vardon Trophy, 1955 Byron Nelson Award)
Jan 6th - Lou Harris, pollster (Lou Harris Poll)
Jan 7th - John Lanigan, tenor
Jan 8th - Herta Bothe, Nazi concentration camp guard
Jan 9th - Seymour Barab, composer
Jan 9th - Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)
Jan 10th - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d. 2004)
Jan 11th - Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (d. 1990)
Jan 12th - John Henry Davis Jr, Smithtown NY, weightlifter (Olym-gold-1948, 52)
Jan 12th - Leo Smit, Phila Penn, pianist/composer
Jan 13th - Dachine Rainer, British writer (d. 2000)
Jan 14th - Charles Gaupp, German/Dutch painter
Jan 14th - Mark Lawrence, Wash DC, pianist (Alice Pearce)
Jan 14th - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)
Jan 15th - Frank Thornton, English actor
Jan 16th - Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004)
Jan 17th - Dehl Berti, Pueblo Colo, actor (John Taylor-Guns of Paradise)
Jan 17th - Antonio Prohias, Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998)
Jan 18th - Bruce Woodcock, boxer
Jan 19th - Patricia Highsmith, [Plangman], US/Swiss writer (Strangers on a Train)
Jan 19th - "Billy Batts" Devino, American gangster (d. 1970)
Jan 20th - Bernt Engelmann, Germany, writer
Jan 20th - Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
Jan 21st - Barney Clark, 1st to receive a permanent artificial heart
Jan 21st - John Doucette, Brockton Mass, actor (Lock Up, Big Town)
Jan 21st - Todor Popov, composer
Jan 21st - Howard Unruh, American mass murderer
Jan 22nd - Andre Hodeir, composer
Jan 22nd - Andy Ganteaume, cricketer (WI batsman, 112 in only Test innings 1948)
Jan 24th - Bernard J Dwyer, (Rep-D-NJ, 1981- )
Jan 25th - Alfred Reed, composer
Jan 25th - Russell Reading Braddon, Australian author
Jan 26th - Akio Morita, Kasugaya Japan, CEO (Sony)
Jan 26th - Frantisek Chaun, composer
Jan 26th - Johannes Driessler, composer
Jan 26th - Eddie Barclay, French producer (Barclay Records) (d. 2005)
Jan 27th - Donna Reed, Denison Iowa, (From Here to Eternity, Wonderful Life)
Jan 28th - Alfred Marks, actor/comedian (Desert Mice, Scream & Scream Again)
Jan 29th - Anthony George, American actor (d. 2005)
Jan 30th - Bernie Leighton, West Haven Ct, orch leader (Chance of a Lifetime)
Jan 31st - Carol Channing, Wash, actress (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Hello Dolly)
Jan 31st - John Agar, Chicago, actor (Fort Apache, Sands of Iwo Jima)
Jan 31st - Mario Lanza, Phila, actor/singer (Great Caruso, Toast of New Orleans)
Jan 31st - E. Fay Jones, American architect (d. 2004)
Feb 1st - Peter Sallis, actor (Tast the Blood of Dracula)
Feb 4th - Betty Friedan, Peoria Ill, feminist writer (Feminine Mystique)
Feb 5th - John M Pritchard, London England, conductor
Feb 7th - Athol Rowan, cricketer (brother of Eric, South African off-spinner)
Feb 7th - Bryan Woods, soldier/clerk
Feb 8th - Hoot Evers, baseball player
Feb 9th - B M Ducat-Amos, Air Commandant/director (RAF Nursing Service)
Feb 9th - Charles Montgomery Monteith, publisher
Feb 10th - Adrian Cruft, composer
Feb 11th - Eva Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress (Lisa-Green Acres, Gigi)
Feb 11th - Lloyd Bentsen, (Sen-D-TX, 1971- )/1989 Dem VP nominee)
Feb 11th - Edward Seidensticker, American scholar (d. 2007)
Feb 13th - Henk van Galen Last, Dutch journalist
Feb 13th - Zao-Wou-Ki, Chinese/French painter/graphic artist
Feb 14th - Albert Sloman, Vice-Chancellor (Essex U)
Feb 14th - Hugh Downs, Akron Oh, TV journalist (20/20, Concentration)
Feb 14th - Jeanne Demessieux, composer
Feb 14th - Piet Kraak, Dutch soccer player
Feb 14th - Skeezix, of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallets' doorstep
Feb 15th - Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (d. 1985)
Feb 16th - Jean Behra, auto racer
Feb 16th - Araucaria, British crossword compiler
Feb 16th - Vera-Ellen, American actress (d. 1981)
Feb 18th - Barbara Hale, actress (Della Street-Perry Mason)
Feb 19th - Andries Treurnicht, [Dr No], founder (S Afr Conservative Party)
Feb 19th - Claude Rene Georges Pascal, composer
Feb 20th - Amanda Blake, [Beverly], Buffalo NY, actress (Kitty Russell-Gunsmoke)
Feb 20th - Joseph Albert Walker, Wash DC, test pilot (X-15)
Feb 20th - Nurv Shiner, singer
Feb 20th - Ruth Gipps, British(?) conductor/composer
Feb 22nd - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, dictator
Feb 22nd - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
Feb 22nd - David Greene, British television director (d. 2003)
Feb 24th - Abe Vigoda, NYC, actor (Barney Miller, Fish)
Feb 24th - Douglass Watson, Jackson GA, actor (Satan Murders, Another World)
Feb 24th - Ingvar Lidholm, composer
Feb 24th - Ludvig Aschkenazy, writer
Feb 24th - Gaston Reiff, Belgian athlete (b. 1992)
Feb 26th - Betty Hutton, Battle Creek Mich, actress (Greatest Show on Earth)
Feb 27th - Andras Szollosy, composer
Feb 27th - Michael Fox, US, actor (Quincy, Dallas, Bold & the Beautiful)
Feb 28th - John Bouber, [Blom], actor/author (Fool of Heideloo)
Feb 28th - Vladimir Sommer, composer
Feb 28th - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006)
Mar 1st - Jack Clayton, film director
Mar 1st - Richard Wilbur, 2nd US Poet Laureate (Ceremony, Walking to Sleep)
Mar 1st - Terrence "Cardinal" Cooke, (NY)
Mar 2nd - Robert Wilfred Levick Simpson, composer
Mar 3rd - Allen Ginsberg, beat generation poet (1969 Arts & Letters Award)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 90 of 90

Jan 2nd - Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Ger chancellor/PM (Prussia), dies at 64
Jan 7th - Benno Erdmann, German philosopher (Logik I), dies at 69
Jan 8th - Luis Villalba Munoz, composer, dies at 48
Jan 12th - Gervase Elwes, English tenor (b. 1866)
Jan 18th - Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor, dies at 73
Jan 22nd - Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b. 1837)
Jan 23rd - Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer, dies at 83
Jan 25th - Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovych, composer, dies at 43
Jan 27th - Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian soldier (b. 1891)
Jan 29th - Billy Gunn, cricket (score 392 runs for Eng including a century), dies
Feb 2nd - Luigi Mancinelli, composer, dies at 72
Feb 3rd - Max Wilhelm Zach, composer, dies at 56
Feb 4th - Xavier Mellery, Belgian painter/illustrator, dies at 75
Feb 7th - Peter Kropotkin, Russ Prince/geologist/revolut anarchist, dies at 78
Feb 8th - Pjotr A Kropotkin, Russian ruler/anarchist, dies at 78
Feb 8th - George Formby (Senior), English entertainer (b. 1876)
Feb 12th - Charles Leslie, cricketer (4 Tests England v Australia 1882-83), dies
Feb 13th - Willem P C Knuttel, Dutch bibliography/librarian, dies at 67
Feb 15th - Hans Haym, composer, dies at 60
Feb 22nd - Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
Feb 26th - Carl Menger, Austrian economist, dies at 81
Feb 27th - Schofield Haigh, cricketer (Eng all-rounder 11 Tests 1898-1912), dies
Mar 1st - Nicholas Petrovic Njegos, King of Montenegro (1910-18), dies at 79
Mar 2nd - Champ Clark, American politician (b. 1850)
Mar 3rd - Petrus Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam museum), dies at 93
Mar 11th - Sherburne W Burnham, US astronomer (binary stars), dies at 83
Mar 21st - "Big Jim" Colisimo, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
Mar 24th - Deodat de Severac, composer, dies at 48
Mar 24th - Larry McLean, Canadian baseball player (b. 1881)
Apr 5th - Alphonsus J M Diepenbrock, Dutch composer (Missa), dies at 58
Apr 8th - Earnest von Possart, German actor/stage manager, dies
Apr 11th - Augusta Victoria, Queen of Prussia/wife of Emperor Wilhelm II, dies
Apr 18th - Earnest [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, actor (Inkwartiering), dies at 70
Apr 29th - Arthur Mold, Brit cricket bowler (1893, banished for throwing), dies
May 1st - Louis Campbell-Tipton, composer, dies at 43
May 3rd - Théodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (b. 1883)
May 5th - Alfred H Fried, Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies
May 12th - Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish writer (La sirena negra), dies
May 13th - Jean Aicard, French poet and novelist (b. 1848)
May 22nd - Marie E Wilton, writer, dies
May 28th - Geo Mestdagh, Belgian aviation pioneer, dies
Jun 4th - Heinrich E Albers-Schoenberg, German x-ray experimenter, dies at 56
Jun 5th - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (Chat and Poche), dies at 58
Jun 18th - Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguay writer (Nativa, Lanza y Sable), dies
Jun 18th - Herman Baccaert, Flemish philological/writer (Kantkennis), dies at 37
Jun 19th - Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota), dies at 33
Jun 29th - Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
Jul 2nd - Edwin Evans, cricketer (6 Tests for Australia), dies
Jul 11th - Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, dies at 75
Jul 27th - Engelbert Humperdinck, composer, dies at 66
Aug 2nd - Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, dies at 48
Aug 7th - Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat), dies at 40
Aug 8th - Juhani Aho, Fins journalist/writer (Panu, Tuomio), dies at 59
Aug 10th - John M Martin, last confederate congress member, dies
Aug 16th - Peter I Karadjordjevic, king of Serbia/Yugoslavia, dies [or 8/26]
Aug 24th - Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886)
Aug 26th - Ludwig Thoma, writer, dies
Aug 26th - Matthias Erzberger, German min of Finance, murdered at 45
Aug 26th - Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1903-21), dies
Aug 29th - Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (rule of Allen), dies at 83
Sep 2nd - Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
Sep 2nd - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil pioneer (b. 1855)
Sep 7th - Alfred William Rich, watercolor painter (b. 1856)
Sep 11th - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
Sep 13th - Italo Svevo, writer, dies at 59
Sep 13th - Ludwig-Alexander von Battenberg [Mountbatten], adm (WW I), dies at 67
Sep 15th - Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Russ baron/general, dies
Sep 27th - Engelbert Humperdinck, Ger opera composer (Schneewittchen), dies at 67
Sep 30th - Oskar Panizza, writer, dies at 77
Oct 17th - Katherine Griffith, actress (Pollyanna), dies at 45
Oct 18th - King Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
Oct 19th - Antonio Granjo, premier (Portugal), murdered
Oct 23rd - John B Dunlop, Scottish inventor air tire (Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81
Nov 4th - Takasji Hara, premier of Japan, murdered
Nov 8th - Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
Nov 12th - Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at 63
Nov 17th - John McLaren, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1912), dies
Nov 17th - Pa Chay Vue, Hmong Nationalist
Nov 27th - Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician]] (b. 1854)
Nov 28th - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1844)
Nov 29th - Ivan Caryll, composer (Pink Lady), dies at 60
Dec 10th - Viktor Jacobi, composer, dies at 38
Dec 12th - Henrietta Leavitt, cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies
Dec 13th - Frederick Martin, cricketer (14 wkts in 2 Tests for Eng 1890-92), dies
Dec 16th - Charles Camille Saint-Saens, French composer, dies at 86
Dec 20th - Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (b. 1850)
Dec 21st - P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84
Dec 25th - Hans Huber, composer, dies at 69
Dec 25th - Korolenko, writer, dies
Dec 31st - Boies Penrose, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (b. 1860)