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1921 Calendar

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•  February 8, 1921 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rooster in Chinese astrology.
•  March 18, 1921 – The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union.
•  March 19, 1921 – Italian Fascists shoot from the Parenzana train at a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia): two children are killed, two mangled and three wounded.
•  March 31, 1921 – The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
•  June 1, 1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
•  July 11, 1921 – The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People’s Republic.
•  September 7, 1921 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
•  October 29, 1921 – Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in the United States of America.
•  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 23, 1921 – Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.

•  January 15, 1921 – Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian politician (d. 2007)
•  January 18, 1921 – Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
•  January 31, 1921 – Carol Channing, American actress and singer
•  April 1, 1921 – Ken Reardon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008)
•  May 3, 1921 – Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)
•  July 23, 1921 – Calvert DeForest, American actor (d. 2007)
•  July 31, 1921 – Donald Malarkey, American World War II hero
•  August 31, 1921 – Raymond Williams, Welsh academic (d. 1988)
•  October 5, 1921 – Bill Willis, American football player (d. 2007)
•  October 6, 1921 – Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)