1921 in History (Part 2)

Events in History

Events 101 - 200 of 201

• May 31 Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700
• May 31 A large-scale race riot breaks out in Tulsa, Oklahoma, later described as the worst incident of racial violence in American history; around 150-200 African Americans 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 14 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted of killing their shoe company's paymaster and sentenced to death, in Dedham Massachusetts

• Jul 18 Black Sox trial begins in Chicago

• 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 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 Féin
• 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 Guatemala, 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 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 North Dakota. Governor Lynn Frazier loses to Ragnvald A. Nestos by just over 4,000 votes (1.8%).
• 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 4 The Sturmabteilung or SA (the "Brown Shirts") is formally established 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 16 The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) calls for a united front in a pass burning campaign on Dingaan's Day
• Dec 16 The Anglo-Irish Treaty, agreed to by the British Parliament and Sinn Féin, is ratified
• Dec 21 Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional

• 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 is sworn in as the 10th Prime Minister of Canada

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Birthdays in History

Birthdays 101 - 200 of 257

• May 8 Graham Leonard, Bishop of London, most senior Anglican to convert to Catholicism since the reformation (d. 2010)
• 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 John Garlick, British senior civil servant
• May 18 Anthony Epstein, English pathologist and virologist
• 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 25 Jack Steinberger, American physicist (1988 Nobel Prize for Physics - Neutrinos), born in Bad Kissingen, Germany (d. 2020) [1]
• 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, British chief constable (Sussex England) (d. 1995)
• 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, Welsh geologist and Vice-Chancellor (University of Glasgow), born in Aberdare, Wales (d. 2004)

• Jun 8 LeRoy Neiman, American painter, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (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, born in Paramaribo, Suriname (d. 2012)
• Jun 11 Michael Meyer, English novelist and translator, born in London (d. 2000)
• Jun 12 H. C. Artmann, Austrian writer, born in Vienna (d. 2000)
• Jun 12 Christopher Derrick, British writer, born in Hungerford, Berkshire, England (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 and graphic artist
• Jun 19 Howell Heflin, American politician (Sen-D-Alabama, 1979-97), born in Poulan, Georgia (d. 2005)
• Jun 21 Jean de Broglie, French politician, born in Paris (d. 1976)
• Jun 22 Barbara F Vucanovich, (Rep-R-NV, 1983-1997), (d. 2013)
• 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), born in Vreeland, Netherlands
• Jun 26 Violette Szabo, French WWII secret agent, born in Paris, France (d. 1945)
• Jun 27 G. M. J. Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA), born in Breda, Netherlands (d. 1990)
• Jun 28 P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (1991-96), born in Warangal District, India (d. 2004)
• Jun 29 Frédéric Dard, French writer (San-Antonio), born in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère, France (d. 2000)
• Jul 1 Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana (1966-80), born in Serowe, Botswana (d. 1980)
• Jul 4 Gérard Debreu, French-American economist (Nobel 1983), born in Calais, France (d. 2004)

• 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 a popular smiley graphic picture, born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 2001)
• 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 Trevor Illtyd Williams, scientific writer, born in Bristol, England (d. 1996)
• 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 19 Rosalyn Yalow, American medical physicist (Nobel 1977), born in NYC, New York (d. 2011)
• Jul 22 William Roth, American politician (Sen-R-Delaware, 1971-2001), born in Great Falls, Montana (d. 2003)
• Jul 23 David Lawmn, CEO (Prestige Group)
• Jul 23 Harry Hookway, Chief Executive of the British Library (1973-84) (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 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 3 Hayden Carruth, American poet (The Crow and the Heart), born in Waterbury, Connecticut (d. 2008)
• Aug 8 John Herbert Chapman, British physicist (d. 1979)
• Aug 8 Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist (d. 2001)
• Aug 9 J. James Exon, American Democratic politician (33rd Governor of Nebraska), born in Geddes, South Dakota (d. 2005)
• Aug 9 Ernest Angley, American Christian televangelist, born in Gastonia, North Carolina
• Aug 10 Leonard Lickorish, dir-gen (British Tourist Authority)

• Aug 12 Patrick Howard-Dobson, president (Royal British Legion)
• Aug 17 Geoffery Elton, German born British historiographer, born in Tübingen, Germany (d. 1994)
• Aug 18 Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian
• Aug 19 Philip A Potter, Dominica Secretary-General 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)
• Aug 25 Brian Moore, Irish novelist (Catholics, Doctor's Wife), born in Belfast, Ireland (d. 1999)
• Aug 25 Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician, born in Quebec, Canada (d. 1999)

• Aug 26 Naomi Parker Fraley, American who inspired "Rosie the Riveter" poster, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 2018)
• Aug 27 Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, born in Nice, France (d. 1996)
• Aug 31 Raymond Williams, Welsh academic and novelist (Second Generation), born in Llanfihangel Crucorney, Wales (d. 1988)
• Sep 1 Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (Mandarins on Sulfuric Acid)
• Sep 3 Marguerite Higgins, American reporter and war correspondent, Pulitzer prize winner (d. 1966)
• Sep 6 Carmen Laforet, Spanish author, born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 2004)
• Sep 6 Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor (barcode), born in Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 2012)
• Sep 7 Josep Lluís Núñez, Spanish President of FC Barcelona (1978 - 2000), born in Guriezo, Cantabria, Spain

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