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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
• March 6, 1921 – Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
• 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.
• March 19, 1921 – Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
• June 6, 1921 – Southwark Bridge in London is opened to traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
• July 2, 1921 – World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Imperial Germany.
• October 29, 1921 – The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
• December 6, 1921 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
• December 23, 1921 – Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.

Who Were Born On 1921?

• February 16, 1921 – John Galbraith Graham, English priest and academic (d. 2013)
• February 25, 1921 – Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1970)
• March 12, 1921 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman (d. 2003)
• April 4, 1921 – Elizabeth Wilson, American actress (d. 2015)
• May 19, 1921 – Daniel Gélin, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• June 2, 1921 – Sigmund Sternberg, Hungarian-English businessman and philanthropist
• July 5, 1921 – Viktor Kulikov, Russian marshal (d. 2013)
• July 15, 1921 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
• November 22, 1921 – Brian Cleeve, Irish sailor, author, and playwright (d. 2003)
• December 12, 1921 – Toni Blankenheim, German opera singer (d. 2012)