1921 Calendar
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1921 Historical Event(s)
January 20, 1921
– The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty.
February 8, 1921
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rooster in Chinese astrology.
March 4, 1921
– Warren Harding becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio, via KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh.
June 28, 1921
– Serbian King Alexander I proclaimed the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
July 11, 1921
– A truce is called in the Irish War of Independence; see Irish calendar.
September 7, 1921
– In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
October 21, 1921
– George Melford’s silent film, The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, premiers.
November 4, 1921
– The Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria (Fatherland Altar) in Rome.
November 11, 1921
– The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
Who Were Born On 1921?
January 18, 1921
– Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
February 13, 1921
– Aung Khin, Burmese painter (d. 1996)
May 9, 1921
– Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
May 16, 1921
– S. Neil Fujita, American graphic designer (d. 2010)
June 4, 1921
– Don Diamond, American actor (d. 2011)
June 7, 1921
– Dorothy Ruth, American horse breeder; adopted daughter of Babe Ruth (d. 1989)
August 23, 1921
– Sam Cook, England cricketer (d. 1996)
October 22, 1921
– Georges Brassens, French singer (d. 1981)
November 20, 1921
– Phyllis Thaxter, American actress
December 17, 1921
– Lore Berger, Swiss writer (d. 1943)