1921 Calendar
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1921 Historical Event(s)
- 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.
Who Were Born On 1921?
- 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)