1921

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1890s  1900s  1910s  – 1920s –  1930s  1940s  1950s
Years:	1918 1919 1920 – 1921 – 1922 1923 1924

1921 Media

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  An aerial view of Harvard Square in 1921.

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  Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss author and dramatist at Bonn 1989. Award ceremony of Ernst-Robert-Curtius-Preis für Essayistik

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  SEATO Military Adviser Air Marshal Asghar Khan in Thailand in 1960

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  Prof. Dr. Marija Gimbutas im Frauenmuseum Wiesbaden 1993

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  Donna Reed publicity photo, c. 1950s

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  Mustafa Ben Halim, prime minister of Libya (1954-1957).

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1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday in the Julian calendar.

Events

• Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Partition of Ireland (May 3rd)
• Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma, United States (May 31st-June 1st)
• Karl Gareis is murdered in Munich, Germany (June 9th)
• Insulin is invented in Canada by Frederick Banting and Charles Best (July 27th)
• Matthias Erzberger is murdered in Germany (August 25th)
• A hurricane devastates Tampa Bay, Florida (October 20th-October 30th)
• Anglo-Irish Treaty signed (December 6th)

March

• March 1 – King Nicholas I of Montenegro (b. 1841)

June

• June 9 – Karl Gareis, German legal scholar (b.1889)

July

• July 4 – Antoni Grabowski, early proponent of Esperanto (b. 1857)

August

• August 2 – Enrico Caruso, Italian operatic tenor (b. 1873)
• August 16 – Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844)
• August 25 – Matthias Erzberger, former German minister of finance (b. 1875)

Sports

• Kentucky Derby winner, Behave Yourself