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Wikipedia.
Events:
January 2 - The first religious radio broadcast (KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).
January 2 - DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park San Francisco opens.
January 20 - Republic of Turkey is declared.
February 25 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia is occupied by the Soviet Russia.
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 between Poland and Soviet Union ending Polish-
Soviet war. Despite the recent Polish successes, Soviets annex Ukraine and Belarus.
April 11 - The Emirate of Transjordan is created.
May 1-7 - Riots in Palestine of May, 1921.
May 19 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the United States Congress establishing
national quotas on immigration.
May 24 - Elections are held for the first time for the new Northern Ireland Parliament.
July 11 - The Irish War of Independence comes to an end when a truce is signed
between the British Government and the Irish forces.
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.
November 11 - During an Armistice Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, the
Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding.
December 6 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State is signed in London.
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.
Invention of the vibraphone.
Births:
January 5 -
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer (d. 1990).
January 5 -
Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg.
January 6 -
Louis Harris, pollster.
January 19 -
Patricia Highsmith, author (d. 1995).
January 20 -
Bernt Engelmann, author (d. 1994).
January 27 -
Donna Reed, actress (d. 1986).
January 31 -
Carol Channing, actress.
January 31 -
Mario Lanza, singer, actor (d. 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 7 -
John Schaffer.
March 8 -
Cyd Charisse, actress, dancer.
March 12 -
Giovanni Agnelli, manager of Fiat.
March 12 -
Gordon MacRae, singer, actor (d. 1986).
March 20 -
Rudolf Noelte, film director (d. 2002).
March 20 -
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, singer (d. 1973).
March 25 -
Simone Signoret, actress (d. 1985).
March 28 -
Dirk Bogarde, actor (d. 1999).
April 15 -
Georgi Beregovoi, cosmonaut.
April 18 -
Janna van den Houten.
May 2 -
Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker.
May 6 -
Erich Fried, author (d. 1988).
May 9 -
Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter with White Rose in Nazi Germany.
May 11 -
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, politician.
May 12 -
Joseph Beuys, artist (d. 1986).
May 12 -
Farley Mowat, writer, naturalist.
May 19 -
William Van Den Houten.
May 19 -
Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999).
May 20 -
Wolfgang Borchert, lyricist, narrator and dramatist (d. 1947).
May 20 -
Hal Newhouser, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1998).
May 21 -
Andrei Sakharov, physicist, human rights activist, recipient of
the Nobel Prize (d. 1989).
May 23 -
James Blish, US science fiction author.
May 28 -
Heinz G. Konsalik, author (d. 1999).
May 29 -
Willem van den Houten.
June 1 -
Nelson Riddle, bandleader (d. 1985).
June 10 -
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
June 26 -
Violette Szabo, SOE agent, WW II heroine (d. 1945).
July 4 -
Tibor Varga, violinist, conductor and pedagogue.
July 6 -
Johanna van den Houten.
July 17 -
Hannah Szenes, WW II heroine executed by the Nazis (d. 1944).
July 25 -
Johannes van den Houten.
August 13 -
Maria Cornelia (Riet) van den Houten.
September 1 -
Leonard John van Houten.
October 13 -
Yves Montand, French singer and actor.
October 25 -
King Michael of Romania.
October 29 -
Eduard Cornelis Biever.
November 5 -
Princess Fawzia of Egypt.
December 15 -
Christiena Catharina Elisabeth Dales.
December 26 -
Steve Allen, actor, composer, comedian, author.
Paul Lyman Troast Jr.
Deaths:
February 8 -
Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist.
March 2 -
King Nicholas of Montenegro.
April 12 -
Peter Michel Theodoor Barmes.
May 5 -
Willem Maarten Smits.
June 5 -
Georges Feydeau, French playwright.
June 26 -
Nicholas Troost (Troast).
September 7 -
Marinus Hendrikus van den Houten.
September 11 -
Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil Indian poet.
September 12 -
Adriana van der Mast.
October 25 -
Bat Masterson, "Wild West" legend.
October 28 -
Petrus Johannes van den Houten.
December 15 -
Adriaantje van den Houten.
December 16 -
Camille Saint-Saens, composer.
William C. Arnoldi.
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