1921 in History (Part 2)

Events 101 - 200 of 208

• May 30 Memorial to Capt Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds
• May 30 Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany
• 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 11 Brazil adopts women's suffrage
• Jun 15 Bessie Coleman reaches France as US 1st black pilot
• Jun 19 Census held in Great Britain
• Jun 19 Turks and 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 puts forward a case for the granting of full citizenship rights to Indians in South Africa and other British colonies
• Jun 21 The UK, the Dominions, and India, become the British Commonwealth of Nations

• Jun 25 Charlie McCartney scores 300 in 205 mins Aust v Notts
• Jun 30 The South African Reserve Bank is established
• Jul 1 The Communist Party of China is founded and Chen Duxiu elected its leader

• Jul 11 Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)
• Jul 12 Indians (9) & Yankees (7) combine for an AL record 16 doubles
• Jul 14 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Massachusetts, of killing their shoe company's paymaster

• Jul 18 Black Sox trial begins in Chicago

• Jul 21 Indians (9) & Yankees (7) hit a record 16 doubles
• 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 Chinese communist party forms under guidance of Henk Sneevliet
• Jul 27 2nd government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms

• 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
• Aug 2 Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox
• Aug 3 1st aerial crop dusting in Troy, Ohio, to kill caterpillars
• Aug 5 Treaty of Berlin: US and Germany sign separate peace treaty
• Aug 6 Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins

• 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 16 Members of the Dail (parliament) swear allegiance to the Irish Republic at their first meeting, held at Dublin House

• Aug 23 British declare a truce with Irish Nationalists Sinn Fein
• Aug 23 Austria and the US formally end war; the US does the same with Germany on the 25th, and Hungary on the 29th
• 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 The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain, a civil uprising in Logan County, West Virginia
• Aug 28 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris)
• Sep 1 Nederlander Theater opens at 208 W 41 St NYC (Billy Rose, Trafalgar)
• Sep 3 KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms


• Sep 9 Guatamala, Honduras, and San Salvador agree to Central American Union
• Sep 11 Nahalal, the first moshav in Israel, is settled.
• Sep 15 Pope Benedict XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus
• Sep 15 WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions
• Sep 21 Pope Benedictus XV donates 1 million lire to feed Russians
• Sep 21 A storage silo at a BASF fertiliser producing plant explodes in Oppau, Germany, 500—600 killed
• Sep 22 The League of Nations accepts membership of independent Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
• Sep 26 Yankee Ruth hits HRs 57 & 58 to beat Indians 8-7
• Sep 27 Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds
• Sep 29 Pirates drop doubleheader to Cards to allow idle Giants to clinch NL
• Oct 1 WJZ, Newark NJ begins broadcasting
• 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 Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect
• Oct 6 Century Theater opens at 7th Ave & 59th St NYC (demolished 1962)
• Oct 6 International PEN is founded in London.
• Oct 17 Belgium's public library law goes into force
• Oct 18 Biding its time, Soviet Russia agrees to independence for the Crimea
• Oct 19 Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup
• Oct 20 Germany and Allies comes to an agreements over reparation payments in a meeting at Wiensbaden
• Oct 20 The French and Mustafa Kemal nationalists sign a treaty at Ankara fixing the Turko-Syrian border
• Oct 21 Tuschinski Theater opens in Amsterdam
• Oct 21 Former Hungarian King Karl stages a second attempted coup and is arrested
• Oct 26 Solomon Porter Hood named US minister to Liberia
• Oct 28 First American gubernatorial recall election is held in South Dakota. Governor Lynn Frazier loses to Ragnvald A. Nestos.
• Oct 29 The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
• 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 5 Soviet Russia signs a treaty with Mongolia, temporarily supporting the new government against China and Japanese incursions
• Nov 7 Hungary passes a law invalidating the Habsburg line of succession to the throne

• Nov 11 US President Warren G. Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery
• Nov 12 Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
• Nov 13 US, France, Japan and 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 US President Warren G. 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
• Dec 1 1st US helium-filled dirigible makes 1st flight
• Dec 1 US Post Office establishes philatelic agency
• Dec 4 The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle ends in a hung jury

• Dec 7 KWG-AM in Stockton CA begins radio transmissions
• Dec 8 Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty

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Birthdays 101 - 200 of 273

• May 3 Vasco dos Santos Goncalves, Portuguese leftist colonel
• May 4 Edo Murtić, Croatian painter (d. 2005)

• May 6 Erich Freid, Austrian and British writer, born in Vienna (d. 1988)
• May 6 Robert Fell, CEO (British Stock Exchange)
• May 8 Graham Leonard, Bishop of London
• May 9 Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)
• May 9 Daniel Berrigan, American Jesuit priest and peace activist (Vietnam War), born in Virginia, Minnesota (d. 2016)
• May 9 Sophie Scholl, German anti-Nazi political activist, active in the non-violent resistance group, the White Rose (Die Weisse Rose), born in Forchtenberg, Germany (d. 1943)
• May 11 Ian Percival, British politician (C) and Solicitor General (d. 1998)
• May 11 Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician
• May 12 Giovanni Benelli, archbishop (Florence)/Papal candidate
• May 12 Henry Mackie, designer of the Belfast Calorimeter
• May 12 Joseph Beuys, German avant-garde painter/politician
• May 12 Farley Mowat, Canadian writer and naturalist, born in Belleville, Ontario, (d. 2014)
• May 13 Syd[ney G] Vincent, British mine workers leader
• May 16 Robert Croften Brown, politician
• May 17 Dennis Brain, french-hornist (Serenade), born in London, England
• May 17 John Garlick, British senior civil servant
• May 18 Anthony Epstein, FRS/pathologist
• May 19 Charles van de Reve, slavic (Belief of Kameraden)
• May 19 Karel van het Reve, Dutch Slavist (Comrade's Religion)
• May 19 William H. Stewart, 10th US Surgeon General (1965-69), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 2008)
• May 20 John Harrison, British vice admiral/surgeon
• May 20 John Marchi, US Senator (Rep-R-NY)
• May 20 Wolfgang Borchert, German writer, born in Hamburg (d. 1947)

• May 23 Sanderson Temple, circuit judge
• May 27 Caryl Chessman, kidnapper who got death penalty (1960)
• May 28 Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)
• May 28 Tom Uren, Australian politician, Australian heritage and conservation campaigner, born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 2015)
• May 29 George Terry, chief constable (Sussex England)
• May 31 Andrew Grima, British jeweller
• May 31 Robert Arthur Ley, UK, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X)
• Jun 2 Alexander Salkind, producer (Superman)
• Jun 8 Alwyn Williams, Vice-Chancellor (Glasgow U)

• Jun 8 LeRoy Neiman, American painter, (d. 2012)
• Jun 9 Arthur Hertzberg, American Jewish scholar (d. 2006)
• Jun 9 Forrest Bird, American aviator and inventor (1st respirators and ventilators), born in Stoughton, Massachusetts (d. 2015)

• Jun 11 Beatrice "Fiet" van Ommeren-Samson, Suriname writer
• Jun 11 Michael Meyer, UK, novelist/Ibsen translator (Hedda Gabler)
• Jun 12 H. C. Artmann, Austrian writer, born in Vienna (d. 2000)
• Jun 12 Christopher Derrick, British writer (d. 2007)
• Jun 16 Lord Perry of Walton, SDP/vice chancellor (Open University England)
• Jun 19 Allan Davis, London mayor (1985-86), born in London (d. 1994)
• Jun 19 Herman Berserik, Dutch painter/graphic artist
• Jun 19 Howell T Heflin, (Sen-D-Alabama, 1979- )
• Jun 19 Rosalyn Yalow, famed award winning medical physicist
• Jun 21 Jean de Broglie, French politician
• Jun 22 Barbara F Vucanovich, (Rep-R-NV, 1983-1997), (d. 2013)
• Jun 22 Gower Champion, choreographer (42nd Street, Showboat)
• Jun 23 Jean [Jean Benoît Guillaume Robert Antoine Louis Marie Adolphe Marc d'Aviano], Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1964-2000), born in Berg Castle, Luxembourg
• Jun 26 Abe Jan Koldijk, SS-physician (Limburg's family doctor)
• Jun 26 Violette Szabo, French WWII secret agent, born in Paris, France (d. 1945)
• Jun 27 G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA)
• Jun 28 P.V. Narasimha Rao, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India (1991-96), born in Warangal District, India (d. 2004)
• Jun 29 Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
• Jul 1 Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana (1966-80), born in Serowe, Botswana (d. 1980)
• Jul 4 Gerard Debreu, French economist (Nobel 1983)

• Jul 7 Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996)
• Jul 9 Jacob J Hage, Dutch farmer/WW II resistance fighter
• Jul 10 Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)
• Jul 12 Trevor Illtyd Williams, scientific writer
• Jul 13 Friedrich Peter, Austrian poltitician (d. 2005)
• Jul 14 Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist
• Jul 14 Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996)
• Jul 14 Sixto Durán Ballén, Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador (1992-96), born in Boston, America (d. 2016)
• Jul 16 Bernard Rogers, supreme Allied commander Europe
• Jul 16 Trevor Williams, scientific consultant

• Jul 19 Rosalyn Yalow, medical physicist
• Jul 22 William V Roth Jr, (Sen-R-Delaware, 1971- )
• Jul 23 David Lawmn, CEO (Prestige Group)
• Jul 23 Harry Hookway, pro-chancellor (Loughborough University)
• Jul 23 Peter Twiss, test pilot
• Jul 25 John Christopherson, artist/collector
• Jul 29 Aled Eames, Welsh maritime historian, born in Llandudno (d. 1996)
• Jul 30 Jacques Vander Schueren, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs
• Jul 31 Whitney M Young Jr, civil rights leader, head of Urban League
• Jul 31 Peter Benenson, British founder of Amnesty International, born in London (d. 2005)
• Aug 1 Vic Marshall, chemist
• Aug 3 Hayden Carruth, novelist (Crow & Heart), born in Waterbury, Connecticut
• Aug 7 M J bin Gorion, writer
• Aug 8 John Herbert Chapman, British physicist (d. 1979)
• Aug 8 Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist (d. 2001)
• Aug 9 J James Exon, (Sen-D-Nebraska, 1979- )
• Aug 9 Ernest Angley, televangelist
• Aug 10 Leonard Lickorish, dir-gen (British Tourist Authority)

• Aug 12 Patrick Howard-Dobson, president (Royal British Legion)
• Aug 14 Giorgio Strehler, theatre director
• Aug 17 Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer
• Aug 18 Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian
• Aug 19 Philip A Potter, Dominica sec-gen World council of Churches
• Aug 22 James Menter, British physicist and principal (Queen Mary College), born in Teynham, Kent (d. 2006)
• Aug 23 Kenneth Arrow, American economist, (Nobel Prize 1972), born in NYC, New York (d. 2017)

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