Notable Historical Events - 1921
1921 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 2 |
1st religious service radio broadcast in US, KDKA-Pittsburgh |
Jan 2 |
DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens |
Jan 3 |
Turkey makes peace with Armenia |
Jan 4 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Diff'rent," premieres in NYC |
Jan 12 |
Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes 1st commissioner of baseball |
Jan 18 |
William Archer's "Green Goddess," premieres in NYC |
Jan 19 |
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union |
Jan 20 |
British submarine K5 leaves with man & mouse |
Jan 20 |
Dagestan ASSR forms in RSFSR |
Jan 20 |
Mountain Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR |
Jan 20 |
Turkey declared in remnants of Ottoman Empire |
Jan 21 |
The Italian Communist Party was founded at Livorno. |
Jan 25 |
Karel Capék's "RUR," premieres in Prague |
Jan 26 |
Soccer team GVAV of Groningen Neth forms |
Jan 26 |
Toronto St Pat Corb Denneny scores 6 goals vs Hamilton Tigers |
Jan 29 |
Hurricane hits Washington & Oregon |
Jan 30 |
French rapist-murderer Henri-Desire Landru sentenced to death |
Feb 5 |
Yankees purchase 20 acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium |
Feb 6 |
"The Kid," starring Charlie Chaplin & Jackie Coogan, released |
Feb 11 |
Ambassador Theater opens at 215 W 49th St NYC |
Feb 12 |
Soviet troops invade Georgia |
Feb 12 |
Winston Churchill becomes British Minister of Colonies |
Feb 14 |
Canadian 5 cent nickel coin is authorized |
Feb 14 |
Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," NY |
Feb 15 |
Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 v England, Australian Test Cricket rec |
Feb 17 |
Arthur Honegger's "Pastorale D'ete," premieres |
Feb 18 |
British troops occupy Dublin |
Feb 20 |
Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran |
Feb 21 |
Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution. |
Feb 23 |
1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in NYC from San Francisco |
Feb 24 |
1st transcontinental flight in 24 hrs flying time arrives Florida |
Feb 25 |
Georgian SSR proclaimed |
Feb 25 |
Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, occupied by Bolshevist Russia. |
Feb 27 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard |
Feb 27 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger |
Feb 27 |
The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna. |
Mar 1 |
Australia Cricket team complete 5-0 drubbing of England |
Mar 1 |
Rwanda ceded to Great Britain |
Mar 1 |
Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia |
Mar 3 |
Toronto's Dr Banting & Dr Best announce discovery of insulin |
Mar 3 |
The Asiatic Inquiry Commission, est. by the South African Government, proposes a system of voluntary repatriation and segregation of Indians and prohibit Indians from buying agricultural land in a specified area along the coast |
Mar 4 |
Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas |
Mar 4 |
Warren G. Haring is inaugurated as the 29th President of the United States |
Mar 5 |
The Durban Land Alienation Ordinance passes, enabling the Durban City Council to exclude Indians from ownership or occupation of property in white areas, South Africa |
Mar 6 |
Police in Sunbury, Penn, issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee |
Mar 6 |
The Natal Indian Congress is resuscitated and reorganised at a meeting in Durban, with Ismail Gora as President |
Mar 7 |
Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt |
Mar 8 |
Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid. |
Mar 13 |
Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China |
Mar 17 |
Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London) |
Mar 17 |
Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics |
Mar 17 |
Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die) |
Mar 17 |
The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution. |
Mar 18 |
2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged |
Mar 18 |
Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000 |
Mar 19 |
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 21 |
Walter Kerr Theater (Ritz, CBS, NBC, ABC) opens at 223 W 48th St NYC |
Mar 31 |
British coal miners goes on strike |
Apr 2 |
Prof Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new Theory of Relativity |
Apr 4 |
Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2 |
Apr 11 |
Iowa imposed 1st state cigarette tax |
Apr 11 |
KDKA broadcast 1st radio sporting event, a boxing match (Ray-Dundee) |
Apr 11 |
Turkestan ASSR forms in Russian SFSR |
Apr 11 |
First sports broadcast on the radio takes place. |
Apr 11 |
The Emirate of Transjordan is created. |
Apr 13 |
Foundation of the Spanish Communist Workers' Party. |
Apr 14 |
NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators sweep Toronto St Patricks in 2 games |
Apr 14 |
Prince Henry opens Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Bremen-Hamburg air route |
Apr 15 |
Black Friday in Britain: leaders of transport and rail unions announce a decision not to call for strike action in support of the miners; the epithet 'black' derives from a widespread feeling that the decision amounted to a breach of solidarity and a betrayal of the miners |
Apr 16 |
Liberal Freedom League forms in The Hague |
Apr 18 |
Junior Achievement incorporated in Colorado Spring |
Apr 18 |
Philip James Barry's "Punch for Judy" premieres in NYC |
Apr 19 |
25th Boston Marathon won by Frank Zuna of NJ in 2:18:57.6 |
Apr 19 |
Funeral of last German Emperoress, Augusta Victoria |
Apr 21 |
Ottawa Senators beat Vanc Millionaires 3 games to 2 for Stanley Cup [or 4/4] |
Apr 23 |
Charles Paddock runs world record 100m (10.4 secs) |
Apr 24 |
1st municipal elections for men & women in Belgium |
Apr 27 |
Hadjememaar, [Corn de Gelder] elected in Amsterdam |
Apr 30 |
American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron |
Apr 30 |
Pope Benedict XV encyclical "On Dante" |
May 1 |
Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda |
May 2 |
Start of 3rd anti-German revolt in Upper Silesia |
May 3 |
West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax |
May 5 |
1st ranger for Cleveland Metroparks hired |
May 5 |
Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm) |
May 6 |
American Soccer League forms |
May 7 |
47th Kentucky Derby: Charles Thompson on Behave Yourself wins 2:04.2 |
May 8 |
Sweden abolished capital punishment |
May 10 |
Luigi Pirandello's "Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore" premieres |
May 11 |
Tel Aviv is 1st all Jewish municipality |
May 12 |
National Hospital Day 1st observed |
May 14 |
Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death |
May 14 |
Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliamentary seats |
May 16 |
47th Preakness: F Coltiletti aboard Broomspun wins in 1:54.2 |
May 17 |
Belgian and Luxembourg sign customs union |
May 17 |
US President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show |
May 19 |
Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system |
May 21 |
Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co |
May 23 |
"Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC |
May 24 |
1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected |
May 24 |
British Legion forms |
May 24 |
Bulhoek Massacre of Israelites takes place near Queenstown when Colonel Theodore Truter, a police commissioner, leads 6 squadrons, a machine gun and an artillery detachment against the Israelite religious sect collected at their annual gathering on the land of their leader and prophet, Enoch Mgijima at Ntabalanga; the slaughter takes 10 minutes and costs 190 lives |
May 27 |
After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty |
May 30 |
Lord Dunsany's "If" premieres in London |
May 30 |
Memorial to Capt Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds |
May 30 |
Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Tommy Milton wins in 5:34:44.578 (144.231 km/h) |
May 31 |
Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700 |
Jun 1 |
Race riot in Tulsa Oklahoma (21 whites & 60 blacks killed) |
Jun 3 |
A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado |
Jun 6 |
Detroit Stars' Bill Gatewood pitches the 1st no-hitter in Negro League history, defeating the Cuban Stars 4-0 |
Jun 6 |
Southwark Bridge in London is opened to traffic by King George V and Queen Mary. |
Jun 8 |
Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, & held in jail until 4 PM |
Jun 10 |
Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120 (Gavvy Cravath) |
Jun 11 |
53rd Belmont: Earl Sande riding Grey Lag wins in 2:16.8 |
Jun 11 |
Brazil adopts women suffrage |
Jun 13 |
Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8 |
Jun 15 |
Bessie Coleman reaches France as US 1st black pilot |
Jun 19 |
Census held in Great Britain |
Jun 19 |
Turks & Christians of Palestine sign a friendship treaty against Jews |
Jun 20 |
11.5" (29.2 cm) of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record) |
Jun 20 |
At the Imperial Conference in London, V.S. Srinivasa Sastri, the Indian representative, puts forward a case for the granting of full citizenship rights to Indians in South Africa and other British colonies; the South African Prime Minister, General J.C. Smuts, opposes Sastris resolution, claiming that he cannot grant the franchise to Indians while withholding it from Blacks |
Jun 21 |
HSC '21 soccer team forms in Haaksbergen |
Jun 22 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:40.2) |
Jun 25 |
56th British Golf Open: Jock Hutchison shoots a 296 at St Andrews |
Jun 25 |
Charlie McCartney scores 300 in 205 mins Aust v Notts |
Jun 29 |
34th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats E Ryan (6-2 6-0) |
Jun 30 |
The South African Reserve Bank is established. |
Jul 1 |
The Communist Party of China is founded. |
Jul 2 |
41st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Tilden beats B Norton (4-6 2-6 6-1 6-0 7-5) |
Jul 2 |
Jack Dempsey KOs George S Carpentier in 4 for heavyweight boxing title 1st million dollar gate ($1.7m) boxing match (Dempsey KOs Carpentier) |
Jul 2 |
Warren G. Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring the official end of war with Germany |
Jul 11 |
Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day) |
Jul 12 |
Babe Ruth sets record of 137 career home runs |
Jul 12 |
Indians (9) & Yankees (7) combine for an AL record 16 doubles |
Jul 14 |
Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Mass, of killing their shoe company's paymaster |
Jul 18 |
Black Sox trial begins in Chicago |
Jul 20 |
Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson became the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives. |
Jul 21 |
Indians (9) & Yankees (7) hit a record 16 doubles |
Jul 22 |
25th US Golf Open: Jim Barnes shoots a 289 at Columbia CC in MD |
Jul 23 |
Chinese communist party forms under guidance of Henk Sneevliet |
Jul 23 |
Edward Gourdin of US sets long jump record at 25' 2 3/4" |
Jul 24 |
Belgium's Leon Scieur wins Tour de France |
Jul 27 |
2nd government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms |
Jul 27 |
Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto |
Jul 29 |
Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, 54, pitches 2 inn |
Jul 29 |
New rules of language assumed (equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium) |
Jul 29 |
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party. |
Jul 30 |
The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) forms; the party changed its name to the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1953, after it had been forced underground |
Aug 2 |
Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox |
Aug 3 |
1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars) |
Aug 3 |
Due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal are acquited, however Landis throws them out of baseball |
Aug 5 |
1st radio baseball broadcast Pirates-8, Phillies-0 (KDKA, Pitts) |
Aug 5 |
Treaty of Berlin: US & Germany sign separate peace treaty |
Aug 6 |
Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins |
Aug 7 |
Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter |
Aug 10 |
FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello |
Aug 13 |
Simon Kaufman & Marc Connelly's "Dulcy" premieres in NYC |
Aug 14 |
Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Russia). |
Aug 19 |
Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits |
Aug 20 |
35th US Women's Tennis: Molla Mallory beats M Browne (4-6 6-4 6-2) |
Aug 22 |
J. Edgar Hoover becomes Assistant Director of the FBI |
Aug 24 |
Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey & Greece |
Aug 24 |
British airship R-38 crashes in River Humber, 44 die |
Aug 25 |
US signs peace treaty with Germany |
Aug 25 |
Yankee pitcher Harry Harper hits 3 batters in an inning tying record |
Aug 25 |
The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain, a civil uprising in Logan County, West Virginia |
Aug 27 |
J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise |
Aug 28 |
2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris) |
Aug 28 |
Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games |
Sep 1 |
Nederlander Theater opens at 208 W 41 St NYC (Billy Rose, Trafalgar) |
Sep 3 |
16th Davis Cup: USA beats Japan in New York (5-0) |
Sep 3 |
KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms |
Sep 5 |
Walter Johnson sets strikeout mark at 2,287 |
Sep 7 |
In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held. |
Sep 8 |
1st Miss America crowned in Atlantic City - Margaret Gorman (16) of Washington DC |
Sep 11 |
Nahalal, the first moshav in Israel, is settled. |
Sep 15 |
Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus |
Sep 15 |
WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions |
Sep 19 |
41st US Men's Tennis: William T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (6-1 6-3 6-1) |
Sep 21 |
Pope Benedictus XV donates 1 million lire to feed Russians |
Sep 21 |
Oppau explosion, a storage silo at a BASF fertilizer producing plant explods in Oppau, Germany, 500—600 killed. |
Sep 22 |
Estonia & Lithuania admitted to League of Nations |
Sep 22 |
Music Box Theater opens at 239 W 45th St NYC |
Sep 26 |
Yankee Ruth hits HRs 57 & 58 to beat Indians 8-7 |
Sep 27 |
Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds |
Sep 28 |
4th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Inwood CC Far Rockaway NY |
Sep 29 |
Pirates drop doubleheader to Cards to allow idle Giants to clinch NL |
Oct 1 |
WJZ, Newark NJ begins broadcasting |
Oct 2 |
NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits then record 59th HR |
Oct 4 |
League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians |
Oct 4 |
Riccardo Zanella becomes first elected president of Free State of Fiume. |
Oct 5 |
1st World Series radio broadcast, Yanks beat Giants 3-0 |
Oct 5 |
Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect |
Oct 6 |
Century Theater opens at 7th Ave & 59th St NYC (demolished 1962) |
Oct 6 |
Fewest hits in World Series Game, 5, Yanks (3) beat Giants (2), 3-0 |
Oct 6 |
International PEN is founded in London. |
Oct 9 |
Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays |
Oct 10 |
NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10 |
Oct 13 |
NY Giants beat NY Yankees, 5 games to 3 in 18th World Series |
Oct 16 |
Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, & Bill Piercy defy Landis ban on World Series |
Oct 16 |
Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin-only mid-game coaching change in NFL history |
Oct 17 |
Belgium's public library law goes into force |
Oct 19 |
Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup. |
Oct 21 |
Tuschinski Theater opens in Amsterdam |
Oct 23 |
Green Bay Packers play 1st NFL game, 7-6 win over Minneapolis |
Oct 23 |
Leos Janacek's opera "Kat'a Kabanova" premieres in Brno |
Oct 26 |
Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia |
Oct 28 |
Amsterdam's Tuschinski movie theater opens |
Oct 29 |
The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed. |
Oct 31 |
Federation Sportive Feminine International forms (1st woman track & field association) |
Nov 1 |
National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League |
Nov 2 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" premieres in NYC |
Nov 4 |
The Sturmabteilung or SA (the "Brown Shirts") is formally formed by Adolf Hitler |
Nov 4 |
Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo. |
Nov 7 |
Ed Wynn's musical "Perfect Fool" premieres in NYC |
Nov 9 |
Partito Nazionalista Fascista, forms in Italy by Mussolini |
Nov 11 |
President Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery |
Nov 12 |
Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments |
Nov 13 |
"Sheik", a silent film starring Rudolph Valentino, is released |
Nov 13 |
US, France, Japan & British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty |
Nov 14 |
The Communist Party of Spain is founded. |
Nov 15 |
KYW-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions |
Nov 21 |
The trial of the accused of the Bulhoek Massacre commences in South Africa |
Nov 23 |
Pres Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes |
Nov 28 |
Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha (Baha'i festival-Qawl 6, 78) |
Nov 29 |
Coldest day in November in Netherlands -14.0°C |
Nov 29 |
Z Parenteau & Schuyler Green's musical "Kiki" premieres in NYC |
Dec 1 |
1st US helium-filled dirigible makes 1st flight |
Dec 1 |
US Post Office establishes philatelic agency |
Dec 3 |
9th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 23-0 |
Dec 4 |
The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle ends in a hung jury. |
Dec 6 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland |
Dec 7 |
KWG-AM in Stockton CA begins radio transmissions |
Dec 8 |
Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Dec 16 |
The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) calls for a united front in a pass burning campaign on Dingaan's Day |
Dec 20 |
AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7 |
Dec 21 |
Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional |
Dec 23 |
Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated. |
Dec 23 |
Gangster Carlo Gambino enters the United States as an illegal immigrant on the SS Vincenzo Florio |
Dec 28 |
The beginning of the Rand Rebellion in Southern Africa; the rebellion started as a strike by white mineworkers on and became an open armed rebellion against the state |
Dec 29 |
Mackenzie King elected and sworn in as the 10th Prime Minister of Canada |
Dec 31 |
Last San Francisco firehorses retired |
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