December 1921

[December 1], 1921 (Thursday)

• Riots break out in Vienna as a result of price rises.

  [December 2], 1921 (Friday)

• Born: Carlo Furno, Italian cardinal, in Bairo, Piedmont

  [December 3], 1921 (Saturday)

[December 4], 1921 (Sunday)

• Born: Deanna Durbin, Canadian singer, in Winnipeg, as Edna Mae Durbin

  [December 5], 1921 (Monday)

• Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins meets UK prime minister David Lloyd George at 10 Downing Street to discuss the remaining "points of difference" between the two sides.
• The Football Association, governing body of association football in England, bans women from playing at FA-affiliated pitches, saying that "the game of football is quite unsuitable for females".
• The 11th season of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association begins.
• Born: Alvy Moore, American actor

  [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, bringing to an end the Irish War of Independence.
• 1921 Canadian federal election: The Liberal Party of Canada wins power from the incumbent Unionists and Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to be elected to the Canadian Parliament.
• Born: Otto Graham, American football player, in Waukegan, Illinois

  December 8, 1921 (Thursday)

[December 9], 1921 (Friday)

• The strong anti-knocking effect of the lead compound tetraethyllead in gasoline is discovered by Kettering, Midgley and Boyd at the General Motors laboratories in the United States.
• Anti-Christian pamphleteer John William Gott becomes the last person in England to be publicly prosecuted and imprisoned for blasphemous libel.
• The 1921 Detroit Junior College Council holds a banquet to honor its American football team for not having given away a point during the 1921 season.
• Erwin Schrödinger delivers his inaugural lecture at the University of Zürich, contributing to the history of quantum theory.

  [December 10], 1921 (Saturday)

• Born: Toh Chin Chye, Singaporean politician
• Died: George Ashlin, Irish architect

  December 11, 1921 (Sunday)

[December 12], 1921 (Monday)

• Died: Henrietta Swan Leavitt, 53, American astronomer

  [December 13], 1921 (Tuesday)

• By signing 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 14, 1921 (Wednesday)

[December 15], 1921 (Thursday)

• Born: Alan Freed, US DJ credited with inventing the term "rock and roll", as Aldon James Freed, in Windber, Pennsylvania

  [December 16], 1921 (Friday)

• Died: Camille Saint-Saëns, 86, French composer

  December 17, 1921 (Saturday)

December 18, 1921 (Sunday)

[December 19], 1921 (Monday)

• Born: Blaže Koneski, Macedonian poet and linguist, in Nebregovo in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes,

  [December 20], 1921 (Tuesday)

• Sir George Fuller succeeds James Dooley as Premier of the Australian state of New South Wales after a defeat for Dooley's government 13 December 1921, but Fuller loses a critical vote within seven hours of his appointment, and Dooley is returned to office.
• Died:
• *Dmitri Parsky, 55, Russian general
• *Julius Richard Petri, 69, German microbiologist

  [December 21], 1921 (Wednesday)

• Born: Luigi Creatore, US songwriter and record producer, in New York City

  December 22, 1921 (Thursday)

[December 23], 1921 (Friday)

• Visva-Bharati College is founded by Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan, Bengal Presidency, British India, with a Memorandum of Association to the University of Calcutta.

  December 24, 1921 (Saturday)

December 25, 1921 (Sunday)

[December 26], 1921 (Monday)

• Born: Steve Allen, US radio and TV personality, actor, musician, comedian, and author, in New York City

  December 27, 1921 (Tuesday)

[December 28], 1921 (Wednesday)

• Italy's Banca Italiana di Sconto goes bankrupt. The bank is granted a moratorium of one year to resolve its financial problems.

  [December 29], 1921 (Thursday)

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

  [December 30], 1921 (Friday)

• Gun Alley Murder: In Melbourne, Australia, a 12-year-old schoolgirl is raped and murdered. The case would later become known for a probable miscarriage of justice.
• Born: Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman, ten times prime minister, in Miriata

  [December 31], 1921 (Saturday)

• The Men's Singles competition at the 1921 Australasian Championships in Perth, Australia, is won by Rice Gemmell.
• Born: Maurice Yaméogo, President of Upper Volta, in Koudougou
• Died: Boies Penrose, 61, long-serving U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania