1921

Events

   * January 2 - The first religious radio broadcast (KDKA Radio in
     Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
   * January 2 - DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park San Francisco opens.
   * January 20 - Republic of Turkey is declared
   * March 8 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato is assassinated while exiting
     the parliament building in Madrid.
   * March 13 - Mongolia declares its independence from China
   * March 18 - The second Peace of Riga expands Poland's territory.
   * April 11 - The Emirate of Transjordan is created.
   * May 19 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the United States Congress
     establishing national quotas on immigrantion.
   * July 18 - The first BCG vaccination against tuberculosis
   * July 27 - Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist
     Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.
   * August - The United States formally ends World War I, declaring a peace
     with Germany
   * September 7 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America
     Pageant is held.
   * December 6 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State
     is signed in London. See Ireland/History
   * December 29 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Canada's tenth prime
     minister.

   * Change of US presidency from Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) to Warren G.
     Harding (1921-1923)
   * Discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto by Frederick Banting,
     Charles Best, James Collip, and J.J.R. Macleod

Births

   * January 5 - Friedrich DŸrrenmatt, writer (+ 1990)
   * January 5 - Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg
   * January 6 - Louis Harris, pollster
   * January 19 - Patricia Highsmith, author (+ 1995)
   * January 20 - Bernt Engelmann, author († 1994)
   * January 27 - Donna Reed, actress (+ 1986)
   * January 31 - Carol Channing, actress
   * January 31 - Mario Lanza, singer, actor (+ 1959)
   * February 4 - Betty Friedan, feminist
   * February 11 - Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress.
   * February 11 - Lloyd Bentsen, American politician.
   * February 14 - Hugh Downs, game show host, journalist
   * February 24 - Abe Vigoda, actor
   * February 25 - Pierre Laporte, statesman, murdered by FLQ terrorists
   * March 8 - Cyd Charisse, actress, dancer
   * March 12 - Giovanni Agnelli, manager of Fiat
   * March 12 - Gordon MacRae, singer, actor (+ 1986)
   * March 20 - Rudolf Noelte, film director (+ 2002)
   * March 20 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe, singer (+ 1973)
   * March 25 - Simone Signoret, actress (+ 1985)
   * March 28 - Dirk Bogarde, actor (+ 1999)
   * April 15 - Georgi Beregovoi, cosmonaut
   * May 2 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker.
   * May 6 - Erich Fried, author (+ 1988)
   * May 9 - Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter with White Rose in Nazi
     Germany
   * May 11 - Hildegard Hamm-BrŸcher, politician
   * May 12 - Joseph Beuys, artist (+ 1986)
   * May 12 - Farley Mowat, writer, naturalist
   * May 19 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (+ 1999)
   * May 20 - Wolfgang Borchert, lyricist, narrator and dramatist (+ 1947)
   * May 20 - Hal Newhouser, Baseball Hall of Famer (+ 1998)
   * May 21 - Andrei Sakharov, physicist, human rights activist, recipient
     of the Nobel Prize (+ 1989)
   * May 23 - James Blish, US science fiction author
   * May 28 - Heinz G. Konsalik, author (+ 1999)
   * June 10 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
   * July 4 - Tibor Varga, violinist, conductor and pedagogue
   * July 17 - Hannah Szenes, WW II heroine executed by the Nazis (+ 1944)
   * October 13 - Yves Montand, French singer and actor
   * October 25 - King Michael of Romania
   * December 26 - Steve Allen, actor, composer, comedian, author

Deaths

   * February 8 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist
   * March 2 - King Nicholas of Montenegro
   * June 5 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright
   * October 25 - Bat Masterson, "Wild West" legend
   * December 16 - Camille Saint-Saens, composer

Nobel Prizes

   * Physics - Albert Einstein
   * Chemistry - Frederick Soddy
   * Medicine - not awarded
   * Literature - Anatole France
   * Peace - Karl Hjalmar Branting Christian Lous Lange

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