What Happened In March 1921 In History

Historical Events for March, 1921

• 1st » The Australia national cricket team called Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash (sport) called whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
• 6th » Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Comintern e.g Communist International.
• 8th » Spain Spanish Prime Minister of Spain Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the Cortes Generales parliament building in Madrid.
• 12th » İstiklal Marşı was adopted in TBMM(Turkish grand national assembly).
• 13th » Mongolia is proclaimed an independent monarchy, ruled by Russian military officer Roman von Ungern-Sternberg as a dictator.
• 17th » The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
• 18th » The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
• 19th » Irish War of Independence: One of Crossbarry Ambush known as the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
• 21st » The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of War Communism.
• 31st » The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.

Famous Birthdays on March in 1921

• 1st » Jack Clayton, English director (d. 1995)
• 1st » Terence Cooke, American cardinal (d. 1983)
• 1st » Richard Wilbur, American poet
• 2nd » Ernst Haas, Austrian photographer (d. 1986)
• 3rd » Diana Barrymore, American actress (d. 1960)
• 4th » Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-American composer and educator
• 4th » Joan Greenwood, English actress (d. 1987)
• 4th » Olev Olesk, Estonian politician, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs in exile
• 4th » Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player (d. 1986)
• 4th » Kaljo Raid, Estonian cellist, composer, and clergyman (d. 2005)
• 5th » Elmer Valo, American baseball player (d. 1998)
• 6th » Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American holocaust survivor and author (d. 2014)
• 6th » Julius Rudel, Austrian-American conductor
• 7th » Peter Oliver, Baron Oliver of Aylmerton called Peter Oliver, British judge (d. 2007)
• 8th » Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)
• 8th » Fritz Luchsinger, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1983)
• 8th » Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 1980)
• 9th » Carl Betz, American actor (d. 1978)
• 9th » Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (d. 1998)
• 11th » Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005)
• 11th » Ástor Piazzolla, Argentinian bandoneón player and composer (d. 1992)
• 12th » Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman (d. 2003)
• 12th » Ülo Jõgi, Estonian historian and activist (d. 2007)
• 12th » Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
• 13th » Al Jaffee, American cartoonist
• 14th » S. Truett Cathy, American businessman, founded Chick-fil-A (d. 2014)
• 14th » Ada Louise Huxtable, American author and critic (d. 2013)
• 15th » Madelyn Pugh, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2011)
• 15th » Stafford Smythe, Canadian businessman (d. 1971)
• 17th » Meir Amit, Israeli general and politician (d. 2009)
• 18th » Frank Searle (photographer) called Frank Searle, Scottish photographer (d. 2005)
• 19th » Martha Carson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2004)
• 19th » Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (d. 1984)
• 20th » Dušan Pirjevec, Slovenian historian and philosopher (d. 1977)
• 20th » Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1970)
• 21st » Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist and pianist (d. 1986)
• 21st » Antony Hopkins, English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2014)
• 21st » Logan Ramsey, American actor (d. 2000)
• 21st » Joe Sutter, American engineer
• 22nd » Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (d. 2004)
• 23rd » Donald Campbell, English race car driver (d. 1967)
• 24th » Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (d. 1987)
• 24th » Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (d. 2010)
• 25th » Nancy Kelly, American actress (d. 1995)
• 25th » Alexandra of Yugoslavia (d. 1993)
• 25th » Simone Signoret, German-French actress (d. 1985)
• 27th » Hélène Berr, French holocaust victim and author (d. 1945)
• 27th » Fred Foy, American radio and television announcer (d. 2010)
• 27th » Calvin Gotlieb, Canadian computer scientist and educator
• 27th » Harry Järv, Finnish-Swedish lieutenant, historian and author (d. 2009)
• 27th » Richard Marner, Russian-Scottish actor (d. 2004)
• 27th » Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Brazilian footballer and coach (d. 2000)
• 27th » Harold Nicholas, American actor and dancer (d. 2000)
• 28th » Harold Agnew, American physicist (d. 2013)
• 28th » Dirk Bogarde, English actor and author (d. 1999)
• 28th » Herschel Grynszpan, German assassin of Ernst vom Rath (d. 1960)
• 28th » Walter Neugebauer, Croatian-German author (d. 1992)
• 30th » André Fontaine, French historian and journalist (d. 2013)
• 30th » Tony Honoré, English lawyer and jurist
• 31st » Peggy Rea, American actress (d. 2011)

Famous Deaths for March 1921

• 1st » Nicholas I of Montenegro (b. 1841)
• 2nd » Champ Clark, American politician, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1850)
• 14th » Larry McLean, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1881)

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