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1921 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2033. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1921 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1921

• February 8, 1921 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rooster in Chinese astrology.
• February 21, 1921 – Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup
• February 27, 1921 – The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
• March 15, 1921 – Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
• April 2, 1921 – The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
• June 1, 1921 – Tulsa race riot: Civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• August 3, 1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
• October 13, 1921 – The Soviet republics of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia sign the Treaty of Kars with the Grand National Assembly of Turkey to establish the contemporary borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
• October 21, 1921 – President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
• December 4, 1921 – The first Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.

Who Were Born On 1921?

• January 1, 1921 – César Baldaccini, French sculptor (d. 1998)
• January 9, 1921 – John Sperling, American businessman; founded the University of Phoenix (d. 2014)
• January 15, 1921 – Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian lawyer and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2007)
• February 24, 1921 – Abe Vigoda, American actor
• March 2, 1921 – Ernst Haas, Austrian-American photographer and journalist (d. 1986)
• March 20, 1921 – Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1970)
• June 21, 1921 – Jean de Broglie, French politician (d. 1976)
• July 14, 1921 – Armand Gaudreault, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2013)
• November 26, 1921 – Verghese Kurien, Indian engineer and businessman, founded Amul (d. 2012)
• December 15, 1921 – Bob Todd, English actor (d. 1992)