December 1921 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1921 US Post Office establishes philatelic agency.
• 04 Dec 1921 The first Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.
• 06 Dec 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland.
• 07 Dec 1921 KWG-AM in Stockton CA begins radio transmissions
• 08 Dec 1921 Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty.
• 23 Dec 1921 Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
• 31 Dec 1921 Last San Francisco firehorses retired

Famous Birthday

• Maurice Mességué

  French herbal healer raised in a family of plant healers.

• Deanna Durbin

  American singer and actress who made her first film at 14.

• Philippe de Gaulle
• Augusto Monterroso

  Honduran writer who adopted Guatemalan nationality, known for the ironical and humorous style of his short stories.

• Ferdinand Waldo Demara
• Steve Allen

  American actor in film and TV, comedian, singer, master of ceremonies, host and writer of fiction (49 books), poetry, humor, mystery and...

• Paul Schäfer

  German corporal and sex offender.

• Maila Nurmi
• George Roy Hill

  American film director (Born 1922).

• Piero Piccioni

  Italian pianist, organist, conductor and composer (Born 1921).

• Udo Rudolph

  German second generation astrologer, the son of Ludwig Rudolph and a member of the Hamburg Uranian School, an industrial manager, lecturer,...

• Louis de Froment
• Jackie Pung

  American pro athlete, a golfer who was Hawaii's first woman U.S.

• Joan Dickson

  Scottish cellist who studied in Rome and Paris, making a debut recital in London, 1953.

• Otto Graham

  American athlete; he played quarterback for the Cleveland Browns football team from 1946 to1955, a decade considered the team's Golden Age.

• John R Guthrie
• Alan Freed

  American disc jockey (d. 1965).

• Nelly Benedetti
• Dobrica Cosic

  writer.

• Bill Dudley NFL halfback (Pittsburgh

  Detroit, Washington).

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Famous Deaths

• Korolenko

  Writer.

• Camille Saint-Saens

  French composer (Born 1835).

• Hans Hartwig von Beseler

  German general (Born 1850).

• Viktor Jacobi composer

  dies at age 38.

• Henrietta Leavitt cepheid period-luminosity relation discover

  dies.

• Charles Camille Saint-Saens French composer (Carnival of the Animals)

  dies at age 86.

• P B S Pinchback major Reconstruction politician

  dies at age 84.

• Hans Huber composer

  dies at age 69.

• Vladimir Korolenko

  Ukrainian journalist author and activist (d. 1921).

• Boies Penrose

  U.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Ted Lewis & His Band - Sally, Won't You Come Back?
2. Peerless Quartet - Auld Lang Syne
3. Isham Jones & His Orchestra - Wabash Blues
4. Ben Selvin & His Orchestra - Say It with Music
5. Marion Harris - Beale Street Blues