July 1921 in History

Events in History

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 14 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted of killing their shoe company's paymaster and sentenced to death, in Dedham Massachusetts

Jul 16 Encouraged by the British, King Constantine of Greece launches a drive to take Asia Minor from nationalists under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Jul 20 Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson becomes the first woman to preside over the floor of US House of Representatives

Jul 21 To prove his contention that air power is superior to sea power, US Colonel William Mitchell demonstrates how bombs from planes can sink a captured German battleship
Jul 23 Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao (among others) form Chinese Communist Party, with guidance from Soviet backed Communist International (Comintern) forms under guidance of Henk Sneevliet
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 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party

Jul 29 New rules of language assumed (equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium)
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

Jul 1 Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana (1966-80), born in Serowe, Botswana (d. 1980)
Jul 4 Gérard Debreu, French-American economist (Nobel Prize, 1983), born in Calais, France (d. 2004)

Jul 6 Soviet Major General and spy for the CIA, born in Ukraine

Jul 6 US First Lady (1981-89), born in NYC, New York

Jul 7 Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996)
Jul 9 Jacob J. Hage, Dutch farmer and WW II resistance fighter
Jul 10 Harvey Ball, American inventor and designer of popular 'smiley-face' graphic, born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 2001)
Jul 13 Charles Scribner Jr [IV}, American literary publisher, born in Quogue, New York (d. 1995)
Jul 13 Friedrich Peter, Austrian poltitician (d. 2005)
Jul 14 Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist (1973 Nobel Prize - organometallic compounds), born in Todmorden, England (d. 1996)
Jul 14 Leon Garfield, English children's author (Devil-in-the-Fog), born in Brighton, England (d. 1996)
Jul 14 Sixto Durán Ballén, Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador (1992-96), born in Boston, America (d. 2016)
Jul 16 Bernard W. Rogers, United States Army general who served as the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army and NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, born in Fairview, Kansas (d. 2008)
Jul 16 Trevor Illtyd Williams, scientific writer, born in Bristol, England (d. 1996)
Jul 18 Aaron Beck, American psychiatrist (father of cognitive behavioural therapy), born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 2021) [1]

Jul 18 American astronaut (1st American to orbit the earth) and politician (Senator D-Ohio), born in Cambridge, Ohio

Jul 19 Rosalyn Yalow, American medical physicist (Nobel 1977), born in NYC, New York (d. 2011)
Jul 22 Colin Madigan, Australian architect (National Gallery of Australia), born in Glen Innes, New South Wales (d. 2011)
Jul 22 William Roth, American politician (Sen-R-Delaware, 1971-2001), born in Great Falls, Montana (d. 2003)
Jul 23 Harry Hookway, English first Chief Executive of the British Library (1973-84), born in London, England (d. 2014)
Jul 23 Peter Twiss, British test pilot (breaking the World Air Speed Record and being the first person to exceed 1,000 mph in flight), born in Lindfield, Sussex (d. 2011)
Jul 25 John Christopherson, English artist and collector, born in Blackheath, London (d. 1996)
Jul 29 Aled Eames, Welsh maritime historian, born in Llandudno (d. 1996)
Jul 30 Jacques Van der Schueren, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, born in Aalst, Belgium (d. 1997)
Jul 31 Peter Benenson, British founder of Amnesty International, born in London (d. 2005)
Jul 31 Whitney Young Jr, American civil rights leader, head of the Urban League, born in Shelby County, Kentucky (d. 1971)