July 1921 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1921 The Communist Party of China is founded.
• 02 Jul 1921 41st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Tilden beats B Norton
• 06 Jul 1921 Anne Frances Robbins is born in New York City, New York; wife of US President Ronald Reagan.
• 10 Jul 1921 Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• 11 Jul 1921 Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day).
• 12 Jul 1921 Babe Ruth sets record of 137 career home runs
• 15 Jul 1921 In Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts, USA a falling meteor starts a fire.
• 18 Jul 1921 Black Sox trial begins in Chicago
• 20 Jul 1921 Air mail service begins between New York City and San Francisco.
• 22 Jul 1921 25th US Golf Open: Jim Barnes shoots a 289 at Columbia Country Club - Maryland
• 23 Jul 1921 Chinese communist party forms under Henk Sneevliet
• 27 Jul 1921 2nd government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
• 28 Jul 1921 President Warren Harding issues executive order requiring coin designs to come under purview of Commission of Fine Arts.
• 29 Jul 1921 New rules of language assumed

Famous Birthday

• Nancy Reagan

  American First Lady, wife of President Ronald Reagan, author of "My Turn, The Memoirs of Nancy Regan," 1980, and "First Lady.

• Edgar Morin

  French Sociologist-philosopher, a member of the French National Committee for Scientific Research and in 1987 the winner of the Charles...

• Francis Blanche
• John Glenn

  American astronaut, one of the original seven astronauts and the first American to orbit the earth on 2/20/1962.

• Chris Marker

  French novelist, poet, essayist and journalist.

• Aaron Beck

  American psychiatrist and academic.

• Eunice Kennedy Shriver

  American activist (d. 2009).

• Giuseppe Di Stefano

  Italian operatic tenor who sang professionally from the late 1940s until the early 1990s.

• Gérard Debreu

  French-born American economist, who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Economics for his fundamental contribution to the theory of general...

• Whitney Young

  American civil rights activist (d. 1971).

• Guy Laroche

  French fashion designer and couturiere who designed consistently elegant, flattering fashions, widely admired for their superb cut and...

• Lionel Terray

  French climbing guide, ski instructor and climber who made many first ascents, including Makalu in the Himalayas (with Jean Couzy on 15 May...

• Peter Benenson

  English lawyer and activist founded Amnesty International (d. 2005).

• Richard Egan

  American actor whose good looks won him the title of Hollywood's Most Eligible Batchelor in the '50s.

• Louis Lachenal
• Robert Brown
• Emile Genest

  Canadian actor (Born 1921).

• Paolo Boringhieri

  Italian editor and industrialist, founder of a Publishing House in 1957.

• Boise (Idaho)
• Alick Isaacs

  Scottish virologist and researcher who discovered the drug Interferon, which is used in cancer treatment, in January 1980 with J. Lindenman.

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Famous Deaths

• Gabriel Lippmann

  French physicist, dies at 75.

• Gabriel Lippmann

  Luxembourger-French physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1921).

• Gabriel Lippmann

  French physicist, dies at 75.

Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Yerkes Jazarimba Orchestra - Mazie
2. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Humming
3. Al Jolson - Scandanavia
4. Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds - You Can't Keep a Good Man Down
5. Vernon Country Club Band - Whip-Poor-Will - Look for the Silver Lining (Medley)