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December 1921

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The following events occurred in December 1921:

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December 1, 1921 (Thursday)

  • Rising prices cause riots in Vienna.

    • December 2, 1921 (Friday)

  • Born: Carlo Furno, Italian cardinal (d. 2015)

    • December 4, 1921 (Sunday)

  • Born: Deanna Durbin, Canadian singer (d. 2013)

    • December 5, 1921 (Monday)

  • Born: Alvy Moore, American actor (d. 1997)

    • December 6, 1921 (Tuesday)

  • The Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State, an independent nation incorporating 26 of Ireland's 32 counties, is signed in London.
  • Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to be elected to the Canadian Parliament.
  • Born: Otto Graham, American football player (d. 2003)

    • December 10, 1921 (Saturday)

  • Died: George Ashlin, Irish architect (b. 1837)

    • December 12, 1921 (Monday)

  • Died: Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (b. 1868)

    • December 13, 1921 (Tuesday)

  • In the Four-Power Treaty on Insular Possessions, Japan, the United States, United Kingdom, and France agree to recognize the status quo in the Pacific.

    • December 16, 1921 (Friday)

  • Died: Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835)

    • December 19, 1921 (Monday)

  • Born: Blaže Koneski, Macedonian poet and linguist (d.1993)

    • December 20, 1921 (Tuesday)

  • Died:
  • Dmitri Parsky, Russian general (b. 1866)
  • Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist (b. 1852)

    • December 21, 1921 (Wednesday)

  • Born: Luigi Creatore, American songwriter and record producer (d. 2015)

    • December 23, 1921 (Friday)

  • Visva-Bharati College is founded by Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan, Bengal Presidency, British India.

    • December 26, 1921 (Monday)

  • Born: Steve Allen, American actor, composer, comedian, and author (d.2000)

    • December 29, 1921 (Thursday)

  • William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Canada's tenth prime minister.

    • December 31, 1921 (Saturday)

  • Born: Maurice Yaméogo, President of Upper Volta (d.1993)
  • Died: Boies Penrose, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (b. 1860)

    • References

    December 1921 Wikipedia
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