1921: On This Year

1921

1921 (MCMXXI in Roman Numerals) was the year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1921th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations.

Is 1921 a year special to you? If so you may like to discover what 1921 was famous for, who won the Oscars and the Nobel Prizes in 1921, who was Time's Person of the Year in 1921, which books, music and movies were top of the charts in 1921, what Chinese zodiac sign is associated to 1921, what babynames were most popular that year, what was the World population on that year and what happend in 1921.

On this page we will address all your questions and curiosities about 1921 to help you enjoy your trip down memory lane.

history

What was 1921 known for ?

  • History is the trail that leads to a journey of self-discovery and awareness. Information collected from past events has a way to sway the decisions made today and 1921 held events that are still shaping the world today.
  • Diabetes is one of the chronic diseases human beings have ever faced. It is not until the summer of the year 1921 on July 27th, that scientists at the University of Toronto, Canada were able to isolate insulin a hormone used to combat diabetes. Within a year, insulin was available to people with diabetes. The scientists, J. J. R. Macleod and Fredrick Banting received the Nobel Prize in medicine two years after the success of the isolation.
  • In what was to be a game change in modern warfare, the German Workers’ Party better known as the Nazi Party ruled the whole of Germany from 1933 to 1945. The party formed in 1919 made Adolf Hitler its party leader in 1921. Being party leader was a stepping-stone to Hitler becoming Germany’s Chancellor in 1933. The Nazi party was composed of Germans unhappy with the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I. Germany’s defeat in World War II brought about the outlawing of the Nazi Party and its top officials convicted of war crimes related to the Holocaust.
  • By December 9, a young engineer, Thomas Midgeley Jr. at General Motors (GM) had grown tired of the annoying noises made by internal combustion engines when running. These sounds referred to as knock or pinging are rather very annoying, Midgeley experimented with diverse elements until he found success with lead. Thanks to the activities of the day, we do not have to deal with the clattering of engines today. Lead is still one of the widely used antiknock agents despite its adverse effects on the human body. Companies today have since started phasing out the manufacturing of engines that require lead.
  • The past hold bitter and sweet memories of times past that ought not to happen again. History makes true the adage that goes; experience is the best teacher.

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Rooster chinese zodiac sign

1921: What was the Chinese Zodiac sign associated with the year 1921?


According to the Chinese Zodiac and Astrology 1921 was the Year of the Rooster.

Discover Zodiac Sign Characteristics and Personality Traits of people born under the Rooster sign.

Nobel Prize

1921: Nobel Prize Winners of the Year


1921: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1921 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Albert Einstein

1921: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1921 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Hjalmar Branting

1921: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1921 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Anatole France

1921: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1921 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Christian Lous Lange

1921: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1921 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Frederick Soddy
world population

1921: What were the most popular baby names in the USA that year ?

The 3 most popular baby names in 1921 were John, Robert and William for boys and Mary, Dorothy and Helen for girls according to the US Census Bureau historical records.

1921: What were the Top #10 male names given to baby boys that year?

The Top # 10 male names given to baby boys in 1921 in the USA according to the US Census Bureau historical records were:

  • John
  • Robert
  • William
  • James
  • Charles
  • George
  • Joseph
  • Edward
  • Frank
  • Richard

1921: What were the Top #10 female names given to baby girls that year?

The Top # 10 female names given to baby girls in 1921 in the USA according to the US Census Bureau historical records were:

  • Mary
  • Dorothy
  • Helen
  • Margaret
  • Ruth
  • Virginia
  • Mildred
  • Betty
  • Frances
  • Elizabeth

vinyl songs

1921: What was the number 1 song in the USA that year?

The number 1 song in the USA in 1921, i.e. the best selling and most popular song of tha year, was Look for the Silver Lining by Marion Harris

1921: What was the music chart in the USA that year?

The Music Chart in the USA in 1921 with the top 10 most popular songs, was:

  1. Look for the Silver Lining by Marion Harris
  2. Ain't We got Fun? by Van & Schenck
  3. Feather Your Nest by Henry Burr & Albert Campbell
  4. Palesteena by Original Dixieland Jazz Band
  5. Old Pal, Why Don't You Answer Me? by Henry Burr
  6. Rose by Paul Biese Trio
  7. Dreams of Long Ago by Enrico Caruso
  8. Do You Ever Think of Me? by Happy Six
  9. Margie by Original Dixieland Jazz Band
  10. Mimi by Paul Biese Trio & Frank Crumit

1921: What were the most popular movies that year ?

The most popular movies and box office hits in 1921 were:

The Kid

The Kid

Release year: 1921

Directed by: Charles Chaplin

Starring: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan, Carl Miller

Country: United States of America

Tol'able David

Tol'able David

Release year: 1921

Directed by: Henry King

Starring: Richard Barthelmess, Gladys Hulette, Walter P. Lewis, Ernest Torrence

Country: United States of America

The Affairs of Anatol

The Affairs of Anatol

Release year: 1921

Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille

Starring: Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Wanda Hawley, Theodore Roberts

Country: United States of America

Orphans of the Storm

Orphans of the Storm

Release year: 1921

Directed by: D.W. Griffith

Starring: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Frank Losee

Country: United States of America

Destiny

Destiny

Release year: 1921

Directed by: Fritz Lang

Starring: Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Bernhard Goetzke, Hans Sternberg

Country: United States of America

history

What happened in 1921?

Here's what happened in 1921:

  • Jan 2, 1921: 1st religious service radio broadcast in US, KDKA-Pittsburgh
  • Jan 3, 1921: Turkey makes peace with Armenia.
  • Jan 6, 1921: Formation of the Iraqi Army.
  • Jan 9, 1921: Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
  • Jan 12, 1921: Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes first commissioner of baseball.
  • Jan 19, 1921: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador sign Pact of Union.
  • Jan 20, 1921: British submarine K5 leaves with man and mouse.
  • Jan 26, 1921: Soccer team GVAV of Groningen Netherlands forms.
  • Jan 29, 1921: Hurricane hits Washington and Oregon.
  • Feb 11, 1921: Ambassador Theater opens at 215 W 49th Steet New York City.
  • Feb 12, 1921: Soviet troops invade Georgia (theirs, not ours).
  • Feb 14, 1921: Canadian 5-cent nickel coin is authorized.
  • Feb 18, 1921: British troops occupy Dublin.
  • Feb 19, 1921: Reza Shah takes control of Tehran during a successful coup
  • Feb 20, 1921: Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran.
  • Feb 21, 1921: Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
  • Feb 23, 1921: 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in NYC from San Francisco
  • Feb 25, 1921: Georgian SSR proclaimed.
  • Feb 27, 1921: US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard.
  • Mar 1, 1921: Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia.
  • Mar 4, 1921: The Arkansas Hot Springs is designated as America's 18th national park.
  • Mar 6, 1921: Police in Sunbury Pennsylvania issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least four inches below the knee.
  • Mar 7, 1921: Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt.
  • Mar 8, 1921: Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while on his way home from the parliament building in Madrid.
  • Mar 13, 1921: Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.
  • Mar 17, 1921: Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die).
  • Mar 19, 1921: 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, 1921: Walter Kerr Theater (Ritz, CBS, NBC, ABC) opens at 223 W 48th Steet New York City.
  • Mar 31, 1921: British coal miners goes on strike.
  • Apr 4, 1921: Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), three games to 2.
  • Apr 11, 1921: KDKA broadcast the first radio sporting event, a boxing match (Ray-Dundee).
  • Apr 14, 1921: Prince Henry opens Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Bremen-Hamburg air route.
  • Apr 15, 1921: Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.
  • Apr 16, 1921: Liberal Freedom League forms in The Hague.
  • Apr 18, 1921: Junior Achievement incorporated in Colorado Springs Colorado.
  • Apr 19, 1921: Funeral of last German Emperoress, Augusta Victoria.
  • Apr 23, 1921: Charles Paddock runs world record 100 metre (10.4 seconds).
  • Apr 27, 1921: Hadjememaar, [Corn de Gelder] elected in Amsterdam.
  • Apr 30, 1921: Pope Benedict XV encyclical "On Dante".
  • May 1, 1921: Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected Governor of Suwayda.
  • May 3, 1921: West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax.
  • May 5, 1921: Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm).
  • May 6, 1921: American Soccer League formed.
  • May 7, 1921: 47th Kentucky Derby: Charles Thompson on Behave Yourself wins 2:04.2.
  • May 8, 1921: Sweden abolishes capital punishment.
  • May 11, 1921: Tel Aviv is first all Jewish municipality.
  • May 12, 1921: National Hospital Day first observed.
  • May 14, 1921: Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death
  • May 16, 1921: 47th Preakness: F Coltiletti aboard Broomspun wins in 1:54.2.
  • May 17, 1921: President Harding opens (via telephone) first Valencia Orange Show.
  • May 19, 1921: The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
  • May 21, 1921: Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Colorado.
  • May 23, 1921: Shuffle Along 1st black musical comedy, opens in New York City
  • May 24, 1921: British Legion is formed.
  • May 27, 1921: Afghanistan gains sovereignty
  • May 30, 1921: Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany
  • May 31, 1921: Suffy McInnis (first base) begins an errorless string of 1,700 chances.
  • Jun 1, 1921: Race riot in Tusla Okla (21 whites and 60 blacks killed).
  • Jun 3, 1921: A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado.
  • Jun 6, 1921: The Southwark Bridge in London, is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
  • Jun 8, 1921: Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, and held in jail until 4pm
  • Jun 10, 1921: Babe Ruth becomes all time home run champion with #120 (Gavvy Cravath).
  • Jun 11, 1921: 53rd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Grey Lag wins in 2:16.8
  • Jun 15, 1921: Bessie Coleman reaches France as US 1st black pilot
  • Jun 16, 1921: US Congress creates the office of Undersecretary of the Treasurer.
  • Jun 19, 1921: Census in Great-Britain
  • Jun 20, 1921: 29.2 cm (11.5 inches) of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record).
  • Jun 22, 1921: Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m
  • Jun 25, 1921: 56th British Golf Open: Jock Hutchison shoots a 296 at St. Andrews
  • Jun 28, 1921: Serbian King Alexander I proclaimed the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
  • Jun 29, 1921: 34th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats E Ryan
  • Jun 30, 1921: U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
  • Jul 1, 1921: The Communist Party of China is founded.
  • Jul 2, 1921: 41st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Tilden beats B Norton
  • Jul 6, 1921: Anne Frances Robbins is born in New York City, New York; wife of US President Ronald Reagan.
  • Jul 10, 1921: Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • Jul 11, 1921: Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day).
  • Jul 12, 1921: Babe Ruth sets record of 137 career home runs
  • Jul 15, 1921: In Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts, USA a falling meteor starts a fire.
  • Jul 18, 1921: Black Sox trial begins in Chicago
  • Jul 20, 1921: Air mail service begins between New York City and San Francisco.
  • Jul 22, 1921: 25th US Golf Open: Jim Barnes shoots a 289 at Columbia Country Club - Maryland
  • Jul 23, 1921: Chinese communist party forms under Henk Sneevliet
  • Jul 27, 1921: 2nd government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
  • Jul 28, 1921: President Warren Harding issues executive order requiring coin designs to come under purview of Commission of Fine Arts.
  • Jul 29, 1921: New rules of language assumed
  • Aug 2, 1921: Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox
  • Aug 3, 1921: 1st aerial cropdusting
  • Aug 5, 1921: Treaty of Berlin: US and Germany sign separate peace treaty
  • Aug 6, 1921: Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens municipal ferry system begins.
  • Aug 7, 1921: Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter
  • Aug 14, 1921: Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
  • Aug 19, 1921: Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits
  • Aug 20, 1921: 35th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats M Browne
  • Aug 22, 1921: J Edgar Hoover becomes Assistant Director of FBI
  • Aug 23, 1921: British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary; of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
  • Aug 24, 1921: Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey and Greece
  • Aug 25, 1921: US signs peace treaty with Germany.
  • Aug 27, 1921: J E Clair of Acme Packing Company of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise.
  • Aug 28, 1921: Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games
  • Sep 1, 1921: Nederlander Theater opens at 208 W 41 St. NYC
  • Sep 3, 1921: 16th Davis Cup: USA beats Japan in New York
  • Sep 5, 1921: Walter Johnson sets strikeout mark at 2,287
  • Sep 7, 1921: In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
  • Sep 8, 1921: Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
  • Sep 11, 1921: Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan to colonize Palestine and creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
  • Sep 15, 1921: Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus
  • Sep 19, 1921: 41st US Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston
  • Sep 21, 1921: Pope Benedictus XV donates 1 million lire to feed Russians
  • Sep 22, 1921: Estonia and Lithuania admitted to League of Nations
  • Sep 26, 1921: Yankee Ruth hits HRs 57 and 58 to beat Indians 8-7
  • Sep 27, 1921: Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds
  • Sep 28, 1921: 4th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Inwood Country Club - Far Rockaway, New York
  • Sep 29, 1921: Pirates drop doubleheader to Cards to allow idle Giants to clinch NL
  • Oct 1, 1921: WJZ, Newark New Jersey begins broadcasting
  • Oct 2, 1921: New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits then record 59th HR
  • Oct 4, 1921: League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians
  • Oct 5, 1921: 1st World Series radio broadcast, Yanks beat Giants 3-0
  • Oct 6, 1921: Century Theater opens at 7th Ave and 59th St. NYC
  • Oct 8, 1921: KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
  • Oct 10, 1921: NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10.
  • Oct 13, 1921: New York Giants beat New York Yankees, five games to three in 18th World Series.
  • Oct 16, 1921: Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, and Bill Piercy defy Landis ban on World Series
  • Oct 18, 1921: The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
  • Oct 19, 1921: Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
  • Oct 21, 1921: Tuschinski Theater opens in Amsterdam
  • Oct 23, 1921: Green Bay Packers play first NFL game, 7-6 win over Minneapolis.
  • Oct 26, 1921: Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia.
  • Oct 29, 1921: The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
  • Oct 31, 1921: Federation Sportive Feminine International forms
  • Nov 1, 1921: National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League
  • Nov 4, 1921: Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
  • Nov 7, 1921: The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence.
  • Nov 9, 1921: Partito Nazionalista Fascista, forms in Italy by Mussolini
  • Nov 11, 1921: President Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier
  • Nov 12, 1921: Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments.
  • Nov 13, 1921: US, France, Japan and British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty.
  • Nov 14, 1921: The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
  • Nov 15, 1921: KYW-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
  • Nov 23, 1921: President Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes
  • Dec 1, 1921: US Post Office establishes philatelic agency.
  • Dec 4, 1921: The first Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.
  • Dec 6, 1921: Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland.
  • Dec 7, 1921: KWG-AM in Stockton CA begins radio transmissions
  • Dec 8, 1921: Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty.
  • Dec 23, 1921: Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
  • Dec 31, 1921: Last San Francisco firehorses retired
  • Jan 2, 1921: World premiere of the science fiction play R.U.R. by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in a theater in Hradec Králové.

history

What does the year 1921 refer to in the Gregorian calendar?

The year 1921 refers to a specific year in the Gregorian calendar, which is commonly used internationally. It is the 22nd year of the 20th century and the 1st year of the 1920s decade. In the Gregorian calendar, it follows 1920 and precedes 1922.

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