What Happened In April 1921 In History

Historical Events for April, 1921

• 2nd » The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
• 11th » Emir Abdullah I of Jordan named Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Emirate of Transjordan known as Transjordan.
• 15th » Black Friday (1921) named Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.

Famous Birthdays on April in 1921

• 1st » William Bergsma, American composer (d. 1994)
• 1st » Ken Reardon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008)
• 1st » Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, American guitarist, fiddler, and composer (d. 2014)
• 3rd » Robert Karvelas, American actor (d. 1991)
• 3rd » Darío Moreno, Turkish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1968)
• 3rd » Jan Sterling, American actress (d. 2004)
• 4th » Elizabeth Wilson, American actress
• 8th » Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (d. 2003)
• 8th » Jan Novák (composer) or Jan Novák, Czech composer (d. 1984)
• 8th » Herman van Raalte, Dutch footballer (d. 2013)
• 9th » Jean-Marie Balestre, French businessman (d. 2008)
• 9th » Frankie Thomas, American actor (d. 2006)
• 10th » Chuck Connors, American baseball player and actor (d. 1992)
• 10th » Jake Warren, Canadian diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States (d. 2008)
• 10th » Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (d. 2003)
• 11th » Jim Hearn, American baseball player (d. 1998)
• 12th » Robert Cliche, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1978)
• 13th » Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Dutch-Swiss businessman (d. 2002)
• 14th » Thomas Schelling, American economist and academic, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences known as Nobel Prize laureate
• 15th » Georgy Beregovoy, Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1995)
• 15th » Angelo DiGeorge, American physician (d. 2009)
• 16th » Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian and author (d. 2014)
• 16th » Peter Ustinov, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 18th » Jean Richard, French actor (d. 2001)
• 19th » Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey (d. 2006)
• 20th » Janine Sutto, French-Canadian actress
• 23rd » Cleto Bellucci, Italian archbishop (d. 2013)
• 23rd » Janet Blair, American actress (d. 2007)
• 23rd » Warren Spahn, American baseball player and coach (d. 2003)
• 25th » Karel Appel, Dutch painter and sculptor (d. 2006)
• 26th » Jimmy Giuffre, American clarinet player, and saxophonist, and composer (d. 2008)
• 27th » Robert Dhéry, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 27th » John Stott, English clergyman and theologian (d. 2011)
• 28th » Rowland Evans, American journalist (d. 2001)
• 28th » Simin Daneshvar, Iranian author and academic (d. 2012)
• 30th » Roger L. Easton, American scientist, co-invented the Global Positioning System called GPS (d. 2014)
• 30th » Tove Maës, Danish actress (d. 2010)

Famous Deaths for April 1921

• 17th » Manwel Dimech, Maltese journalist, author, and philosopher (b. 1860)
• 29th » Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)

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