September 1921 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1921 Nederlander Theater opens at 208 W 41 St. NYC
• 03 Sep 1921 16th Davis Cup: USA beats Japan in New York
• 05 Sep 1921 Walter Johnson sets strikeout mark at 2,287
• 07 Sep 1921 In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
• 08 Sep 1921 16-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
• 11 Sep 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.
• 15 Sep 1921 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus
• 19 Sep 1921 41st US Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston
• 21 Sep 1921 Pope Benedictus XV donates 1 million lire to feed Russians
• 22 Sep 1921 Estonia and Lithuania admitted to League of Nations
• 26 Sep 1921 Yankee Ruth hits HRs 57 and 58 to beat Indians 8-7
• 27 Sep 1921 Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds
• 28 Sep 1921 4th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Inwood Country Club - Far Rockaway, New York
• 29 Sep 1921 Pirates drop doubleheader to Cards to allow idle Giants to clinch NL

Famous Birthday

• Stanislas Lem
• Deborah Kerr

  Scottish-American actress, nominated six times for an Academy Award in leading roles including "From Here To Eternity," "Beloved Infidel,"...

• Gisèle Pascal
• Guy Tréjan
• Maritie Carpentier
• Michel Jobert

  French politician of the left-wing Gaullist orientation.

• Jeannette Batti
• Marc Le Bot
• Carmen Laforet

  Spanish writer (Born 1921).

• Harry Secombe

  British entertainer known as "the nicest man in British show business.

• Jimmy Young

  English singer and radio host.

• Robert Muldoon

  New Zealand politician who was first elected to Parliament on 11/26/1961, but became Minister of Finance from 1964-1972.

• Wendell Phillips

  American explorer and entrepreneur who followed expeditions into Africa and who founded the American Foundation for the Study of Man.

• Korla Pandit

  American pianist and composer (d. 1998).

• Bruce Mason

  New Zealand playwright, critic and novelist, and a leading force in founding New Zealand’s first professional theatre, Downstage, in...

• Jack Valenti

  American film director and executive who was appointed president of the Motion Picture Association of America in April 1966, following a...

• Maurice Basko
• Stephen Douglass

  American stage actor with occasional TV credits.

• Moshe Shamir
• Charles Bateman

  American musician.

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Famous Deaths

• Ludwig-Alexander von Battenberg [Mountbatten]

  Admiral (WWI), dies at 67.

• Oskar Panizza

  Writer, dies at 77.

• Henry Austin Dobson

  English poet (Born 1840).

• Anthony Francis

  Lucas Croatian-born American oil pioneer (Born 1855).

• Subramanya Bharathy

  Tamil poet (Born 1882).

• Roman Ungern von Sternberg

  Russian counter-revolutionary (Born 1886).

• Alfred William Rich

  watercolor painter (Born 1856).

• Roman von Ungern-Sternberg

  Austrian-Russian general (d. 1921).

• Engelbert Humperdinck

  British singer who was born in India and has performed many hit songs, including some pop and ballads.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Benson Orchestra of Chicago - Crooning
2. Nora Bayes - Tea Leaves
3. Charles Harrison - Peggy O'Neil
4. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Learn to Smile
5. Ethel Waters - Down Home Blues