March 1921 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia.
• 04 Mar 1921 The Arkansas Hot Springs is designated as America's 18th national park.
• 06 Mar 1921 Police in Sunbury Pennsylvania issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least four inches below the knee.
• 07 Mar 1921 Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt.
• 08 Mar 1921 Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
• 13 Mar 1921 Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.
• 17 Mar 1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die).
• 19 Mar 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.
• 21 Mar 1921 Walter Kerr Theater (Ritz, CBS, NBC, ABC) opens at 223 W 48th Steet New York City.
• 31 Mar 1921 British coal miners goes on strike.

Famous Birthday

• Simone Signoret

  German-born actress, winner of the Best Actress Oscar for "Room At the Top" and the Best Foreign Film Award for "Madame Rosa" in 1977.

• Gianni Agnelli

  Italian industrialist, the head of Fiat since 1966, an auto empire established by grandfather, Giovanni.

• Cyd Charisse
• Dirk Bogarde

  British actor, a total craftsman and one of the leading box-office stars throughout the 1960s.

• Diana Barrymore

  American noted family, the daughter of John Barrymore and his second wife, Michael Strange.

• Logan Ramsey

  Long Beach, California -- Actor (Head, Joy Sticks, Say Yes).

• Nino Manfredi

  Italian actor, screenwriter and director or both comedy and drama.

• Jacqueline Joubert

  French TV presenter and producer, she was one of the first "speakerines" on the French television.

• Alan Hale

  Jr.

• Gordon MacRae

  American actor and singer, a popular musical comedy star of the '50s.

• Anne Pierjean
• Arthur Grumiaux

  Belgian violinist and pianist (d. 1986).

• Donald M Kendall
• Paul Guimard

  French writer known for combining his passion for writing with his love of the sea.

• Jean Nergal
• Hatten Yoder

  American scientific doctor of petrology (the study of rocks), a holder of numerous awards and founder of the mineral yoderite that was named...

• Denys de la Patelliere
• Paride Accetti

  Italian lawyer and Business Executive, President of a major firm.

• Vasily Smyslov

  Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, and was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958.

• Al Jaffee

  American cartoonist.

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Famous Deaths

• King Nicholas

  I of Montenegro (Born 1841).

• Nicholas Petrovic Njegos King of Montenegro (1910-18)

  dies at age 79.

• Petrus Cuypers architect (Amsterdam museum)

  dies at age 93.

• Sherburne W Burnham US astronomer (binary stars)

  dies at age 83.

• "Big Jim" Colisimo US gangster

  murdered by Al Capone.

• Deodat de Severac composer

  dies at age 48.

• Champ Clark

  American lawyer and politician 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1921).

• Larry McLean

  Canadian-American baseball player (d. 1921).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Homer Rodeheaver & Virginia Asher - The Old Rugged Cross
2. Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Palesteena
3. Billy Murray & Billy Jones - (Down by the) O-Hi-O (I've Got the Sweetest Little O, My! O!)
4. Art Hickman & His Orchestra - Darling
5. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Caresses