May 1921 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1921 Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected Governor of Suwayda.
• 03 May 1921 West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax.
• 05 May 1921 Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm).
• 06 May 1921 American Soccer League formed.
• 07 May 1921 47th Kentucky Derby: Charles Thompson on Behave Yourself wins 2:04.2.
• 08 May 1921 Sweden abolishes capital punishment.
• 11 May 1921 Tel Aviv is first all Jewish municipality.
• 12 May 1921 National Hospital Day first observed.
• 14 May 1921 Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death
• 16 May 1921 47th Preakness: F Coltiletti aboard Broomspun wins in 1:54.2.
• 17 May 1921 President Harding opens (via telephone) first Valencia Orange Show.
• 19 May 1921 The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
• 21 May 1921 Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Colorado.
• 23 May 1921 Shuffle Along 1st black musical comedy, opens in New York City
• 24 May 1921 British Legion is formed.
• 27 May 1921 Afghanistan gains sovereignty
• 30 May 1921 Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany
• 31 May 1921 Suffy McInnis (first base) begins an errorless string of 1,700 chances.

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• Joseph Beuys

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• Andrei Sakharov

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• Wolfgang Borchert

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Famous Deaths

• Alfred Hermann Fried

  Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1864).

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• Alfred H Fried Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel Prize 1911)

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• Marie E Wilton writer

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• Geo Mestdagh Belgian aviation pioneer

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