1921 Calendar

February 8, 1921 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rooster in Chinese astrology.

March 12, 1921 – İstiklal Marşı was adopted in TBMM(Turkish grand national assembly).

March 19, 1921 – Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.

June 20, 1921 – Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.

July 10, 1921 – Belfast’s Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

October 8, 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.

October 18, 1921 – The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the RSFSR.

October 19, 1921 – Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.

November 4, 1921 – The Sturmabteilung or SA, whose members were known as “brownshirts”, physically assault Adolf Hitler’s opposition after his speech in Munich.

December 4, 1921 – The first Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe ‘Fatty’Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.

January 20, 1921 – Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)

February 4, 1921 – Betty Friedan, American feminist (d. 2006)

July 19, 1921 – Harold Camping, American evangelist

July 24, 1921 – Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (d. 2008)

July 26, 1921 – Jean Shepherd, American writer, radio and TV personality and actor (d. 1999)

October 6, 1921 – Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)

October 27, 1921 – Warren Allen Smith, American encyclopedist

December 6, 1921 – Piero Piccioni, Italian musician and composer (d. 2004)

December 15, 1921 – Bob Todd, British comedian (d. 1992)

December 21, 1921 – John Severin, American comics artist