February 1921 in History

Events in History

Feb 11 Ambassador Theater opens at 215 W 49th St NYC
Feb 12 Soviet troops invade Georgia

Event of Interest

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," in New York
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 21 The London Conference on the Near East begins: the issue is the Allies' 1920 Treaty of Sevres, which had given part of Turkish Asia Minor to Greece
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 in Florida
Feb 25 Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, occupied by Bolshevist Russia
Feb 25 The Living Buddha, Hutuktu, is crowned King of Mongolia as the country declares independence from China
Feb 26 The USSR signs treaties respecting the integrity of Persia and of Afghanistan
Feb 27 The Fascists incite a riot in Florence, Italy
Feb 27 The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna

Birthdays in History

Betty Friedan (1921-2006)

Feb 4 American feminist and writer (The Feminine Mystique), born in Peoria, Illinois

Feb 7 Bryan Woods, soldier/clerk
Feb 8 Nexhmije Hoxha, Albanian wife of dictator Enver Hoxha 'Lady Macbeth of Albania', born in Manastir, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (d. 2020)
Feb 9 Charles Montgomery Monteith, publisher
Feb 11 Edward Seidensticker, American scholar (d. 2007)
Feb 11 Lloyd Bentsen, (Sen-D-TX, 1971- )/1989 Dem VP nominee)
Feb 13 Henk van Galen Last, Dutch journalist
Feb 13 Zao-Wou-Ki, Chinese/French painter and graphic artist
Feb 14 Albert Sloman, Vice-Chancellor (Essex U)
Feb 14 Skeezix, of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallets' doorstep
Feb 15 Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (d. 1985)
Feb 16 Araucaria [John Galbraith Graham], British crossword compiler (The Guardian) and priest, born in Oxford, England (d. 2013)
Feb 16 Esther Bubley, American photographer, born in Phillips, Wisconsin (d. 1998)

Hua Guofeng (1921-2008)

Feb 16 Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (1976-81) and Premier of the People's Republic of China (1976-80), born in Jiaocheng County, Shanxi

Feb 19 Andries Treurnicht [Dr No], South African politician (founder of the South African Conservative Party), born in Piketberg, South Africa (d. 1993)

Joseph A. Walker (1921-1966)

Feb 20 American experimental physicist, World War II and NASA test pilot (1st spaceplane flights to edge of outer space), born in Washington, Pennsylvania

Feb 22 David Greene, British television director, born in Manchester, England (d. 2003)

Jean-Bédel Bokassa (1921-1996)

Feb 22 President (1966-76) and later Emperor (1976-79) of the Central African Republic, born in Bobangui, then French Equatorial Guinea

Feb 22 Wayne Booth, American literary critic, born in American Fork, Utah (d. 2005)
Feb 24 Ludvik Aschkenazy, Czech writer (Brutus), (d. 1986)
Feb 28 Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006)
Feb 28 Saul Zaentz, American record company executive (Fantasy), and film producer (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest; Amadeus; The Unbearable Lightness Of Being; The English Patient), born in Passaic, New Jersey (d. 2014)

Deaths in History

Feb 4 Xavier Mellery, Belgian painter and illustrator, dies at 75
Feb 8 Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin, Russian activist and anarchist, dies at 78
Feb 13 Willem P C Knuttel, Dutch bibliography/librarian, dies at 67
Feb 22 Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
Feb 26 Carl Menger, Austrian economist (marginal utility theory, subjective theory of value), dies at 81