Warren G. Harding inauguration, March 4, 1921. Harding at right in back seat; Woodrow Wilson at left.
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Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Homer H. Casteel (Democratic)
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Wallace Crossley (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Hiram Lloyd (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Montana: W. W. McDowell (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Nelson Story Jr. (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: William H. McMaster (Republican) (until January 4), Carl Gunderson (Republican) (starting January 4)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), William West Bond (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Willard Arnold Johnson (Democratic) (until January 18), Lynch Davidson (Democratic) (starting January 18)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Mason S. Stone (Republican) (until January 6), Abram W. Foote (Republican) (starting January 6)
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Benjamin Franklin Buchanan (Democratic)
Lieutenant Governor of Washington: vacant (until January 10), William J. Coyle (Republican) (starting January 10)
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Edward F. Dithmar (Republican) (until January 3), George F. Comings (Republican) (starting January 3)
Events[]
January–March[]
March 4: Warren G. Harding becomes the 29th U.S. President
Calvin Coolidge becomes the 29th U.S. Vice President
Unknown Soldier from World War I being taken from the USS Olympia(C-6) at the Washington Navy Yard and transported to the US Capitol to lay in state. On November 11 the body is interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
January – E. W. Scripps and William Emerson Ritter found Science Service, later renamed Society for Science & the Public, in the United States, with the goal of keeping the public informed of scientific developments.[1]
January 1 – In American football, the University of California defeats Ohio State 28–0 in the Rose Bowl.
January 2
The first religious radio broadcast is heard, over station KDKA (AM) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The De Young Museum opens in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.[2]
January 21 – The full-length silentcomedy-drama film The Kid, written, produced, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin (in his Tramp character), with Jackie Coogan, is released.
March 4 – Warren G. Harding is sworn in as the 29th President of the United States, and Calvin Coolidge is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
March 25 – The first Lowe's opens in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
April–June[]
April – The United States Figure Skating Association is formed.
April 20 – Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom is first produced on Broadway in English.
May 19 – The Emergency Quota Act passes the U.S. Congress, establishing national quotas on immigration. Because this drastically limits immigration from Eastern Europe, Jews emigrating from there begin to prefer Palestine as a destination rather than the U.S.
May 22 – In the first golf international between the two countries, the United States beats the United Kingdom 9 rounds to 3.
May 27 – First victim of the Osage Indian murders is discovered in Osage County, Oklahoma.
May 31 – June 1 – Tulsa Race Massacre (Greenwood Massacre): Mobs of white residents attack black residents and businesses in Greenwood District, Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll is 36, but later investigations suggest an actual figure between 100 and 300. 1,250 homes are destroyed and roughly 6,000 African Americans imprisoned in one of the worst incidents of mass racial violence in the United States.
June 15
29-year-old Bessie Coleman gets her pilot's licence in France and becomes the first African American to earn an international pilot's licence.[3]
July 2 – U.S. President Warren Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring an end to America's state of war with Germany, Austria and Hungary.[5]
July 11 – Former President of the United StatesWilliam Howard Taft is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States, making him the only person ever to hold both positions.
July 14 – A Massachusetts jury finds Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti guilty of first degree murder following a widely publicized trial.
July 26 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding receives Princess Fatima of Afghanistan who is escorted by imposter Stanley Clifford Weyman.
August 5 – The first radio baseball game is broadcast: Harold Arlin announces the Pirates-Phillies game from Forbes Field over WestinghouseKDKA in Pittsburgh.
August 11
Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralytic illness strikes while he is vacationing on Campobello Island; on August 25 he is diagnosed with polio and aged 39 becomes permanently disabled.[6]
James Coyle, a Catholic priest in Birmingham, Alabama, is shot and killed by Klan member E. R. Stephenson after presiding over the wedding of Stephenson's daughter, Ruth, and Pedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican working for her father.
August 25 – September 2 – An uprising of striking coal miners in West Virginia leads to the Battle of Blair Mountain.
September 5 – Popular comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle attends a party at the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, during which actress Virginia Rappe is fatally injured; although he is eventually acquitted of rape and manslaughter, the scandal derails his career.
September 8 – Sixteen-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Golden Mermaid trophy at a beauty pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey; officials later dub her the first Miss America.
September 13 – White Castlehamburger restaurant opens in Wichita, Kansas, the foundation of the world's first fast food chain.
October–December[]
October 5 – The World Series baseball game in North America is first broadcast on the radio, by Newark, New Jersey, station WJZ, Pittsburgh station KDKA, and a group of other commercial and amateur stations throughout the eastern U.S.
October 8 – The first Sweetest Day is staged in Cleveland, Ohio.
October 26 – The Chicago Theatre, the oldest surviving grand movie palace, opens.
October 29
Construction of the Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Project in Oregon, is completed.[7]
1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game: Centre College's football team, led by quarterback Bo McMillin, defeats Harvard University 6–0 to snap Harvard's five-year winning streak. For decades afterward, this is called "football's upset of the century."
November 11 – During an Armistice Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, the Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by U.S. President Warren G. Harding.
November 23 – The Sheppard–Towner Act is signed by President Harding, providing federal funding for maternity and child care.[8]
December 13 – In the Four Power Treaty on Insular Possessions, the Empire of Japan, the United States, United Kingdom and French Third Republic agree to recognize the status quo in the Pacific.
Undated[]
Simon Rodia begins construction of the Watts Towers in Los Angeles.
The central tower is added to the De Young (museum) museum in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
January 20 – Mary Watson Whitney, astronomer (born 1847)[33]
February 7 – John J. Gardner, member of the House of Representatives from New Jersey from 1893 to 1913 (born 1845)
February 17 – Rosetta Luce Gilchrist, physician and author (born 1850)
March 8 – Thomas H. Paynter, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1907 to 1913 (born 1851)
March 29
Levi Ankeny, U.S. Senator from Washington from 1903 to 1909 (born 1844)
John Burroughs, naturalist (born 1837)
April 21 – Tom O'Brien, baseball player (born 1860)
April 23 – John P. Young, managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle (b. 1849)
May 19 – Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States from 1910 to 1921, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1894 to 1910 and U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1891 to 1894 (born 1845)
May 26 – Donald Evans, poet, publisher, music critic and journalist (born 1884)
June 12 – Murphy J. Foster, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1901 to 1913 (born 1849)
June 16 – William E. Mason, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1897 to 1903 (born 1850)
July 24 – C. I. Scofield, theologian (born 1843)
September 9 – Virginia Rappe, model and silent film actress (born 1895)
October 12 – Philander C. Knox, United States Attorney General from 1901 to 1904 and United States Secretary of State from 1909 to 1913 (born 1853)
October 25 – Bat Masterson, gunfighter (born 1853)
December 12 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt, astronomer (born 1868)
^Beauchet, Patrick (2015). Ma vie à bord des cargos et cargos mixtes de la Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. Société des Ecrivains. p. 209. ISBN9782342038651.
^"UPI Almanac for Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019". United Press International. January 6, 2019. Archived from the original on September 11, 2019. Retrieved September 10, 2019. golf Hall of Fame member Cary Middlecoff in 1921