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The following events occurred in April 1921:

April 1, 1921 (Friday)

• French pilot Adrienne Bolland makes the first flight across the Andes by a woman, when she flies a Caudron G.3 from Mendoza, Argentina, to Santiago, Chile.[1]
• Croatia's Republican Peasant Party launches the "Constitution of the Neutral Peasant Republic of Croatia".[2]

April 2, 1921 (Saturday)

• The US schooner Lewis H. Goward catches fire in the Atlantic Ocean off the Rebecca Shoal Lighthouse and is a total loss.[3]

April 3, 1921 (Sunday)

• The 14th Milan–San Remo cycle race is won by Italian rider Costante Girardengo.[4]
• Coal rationing begins in the United Kingdom.[5]

April 4, 1921 (Monday)

• A census of the Commonwealth of Australia, taken overnight, gives a figure of 5,435,734 for the total population.[6]

April 5, 1921 (Tuesday)

• A "Gurdwara Bill" is introduced in the Punjab Legislative Assembly of India, ignoring protests from Sikhs.[7]
• The 1921 Stanley Cup Finals conclude in Vancouver, Canada, ending in victory for the Ottawa Senators.[8]
• In the San Diego mayoral election in California, United States, Republican candidate John L. Bacon wins by 82 votes (out of 16,522 cast).[9]

April 6, 1921 (Wednesday)

• Simon Kimbangu reportedly carries out a miraculous healing in Belgian Congo, effectively founding the "Church of Jesus Christ on Earth through the Prophet Simon Kimbangu".[10]
• Died: Maximilian Berlitz, 68, German linguist, founder of Berlitz language schools[11]

April 7, 1921 (Thursday)

April 8, 1921 (Friday)

• Dimitrios Gounaris replaces Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos as Prime Minister of Greece.[12]
• An annular solar eclipse takes place, visible from northern Scotland, the northwestern tip of Norway, and some islands in the Arctic Ocean in Russian SFSR.[13]
• Born: Franco Corelli, Italian operatic tenor, in Ancona[14] (died 2003)

April 9, 1921 (Saturday)

• The first round of voting in the 1921 South Australian state election takes place.[15]
• Born: Mary Jackson, African-American mathematician and engineer, in Hampton, Virginia, as Mary Winston (died 2005)[16]

April 10, 1921 (Sunday)

• Born: Chuck Connors, US sportsman and actor, in Brooklyn, New York[17] (died 1992)

April 11, 1921 (Monday)

• The Emirate of Transjordan is created, with Abdullah I as its ruler (emir).[18]
• The US cargo ship Colonel Bowie founders in the Gulf of Mexico; nineteen of her 22 crew are lost.[19]
• Died: Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, 62, former empress of Prussia, wife of Wilhelm II, German Emperor[20]

April 12, 1921 (Tuesday)

First World War French General Joseph Gallieni, who died in 1916, is posthumously created a Marshal of France.[21]

• France's Minister for the Colonies, Albert Sarraut, reveals his plans for a colonial development programme, primarily affecting Niger and Indo-China.[22]

April 13, 1921 (Wednesday)

• The British schooner Huntley sinks off Cape Spear, Newfoundland. Her crew are rescued.[23] The ship is later refloated because its cargo of salt is dissolving and is towed in to St. John's.
• The German cargo ship Johanne collided with the Danish schooner Edel in the Skagerrak 6 nautical miles (11 km) south of Fredrikshavn, Nordjylland, Denmark and sinks. Its crew are rescued.[24]

April 14, 1921 (Thursday)

• During its voyage from Seattle, Washington, United States, to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia, carrying 436 tons of general trading cargo, the 552-ton motor ship Kamchatka is abandoned in the North Pacific Ocean 400 nautical miles (740 km; 460 mi) south of the Territory of Alaska′s Shumagin Islands after its crew lose control of an engine room fire. The 23 crew travel by boat to the Shumagin Islands, while the ship's burned-out hulk drifts south, disappearing after two days.[25]
• Died: Imperial Noble Consort Gongsu, 63, concubine of the Tongzhi Emperor of China

April 15, 1921 (Friday)

• The British coaster Poolena runs aground at Dunfanaghy, County Donegal, Ireland. Its crew survive and it is refloated on 21 April.[26]

April 16, 1921 (Saturday)

• In the second round of voting in the 1921 South Australian state election, the incumbent Liberal Union government led by Premier Henry Barwell emerges victorious.
• Born: Peter Ustinov, English actor, writer, opera director and broadcaster of Russian and European descent, in London[27] (died 2004)

April 17, 1921 (Sunday)

• Died: Manwel Dimech, 60, Maltese social reformer, philosopher and writer, while imprisoned in a concentration camp at Alexandria, Egypt[28]

April 18, 1921 (Monday)

The British cargo ship Iron Monarch (formerly HMAS Koolonga) runs aground at Port Pirie, South Australia;[29] it is refloated on 21 April.[30]

April 19, 1921 (Tuesday)

• The 1921 Bewdley by-election in the UK, brought about by the appointment of the incumbent MP Stanley Baldwin as President of the Board of Trade, is won by Baldwin himself.[31]

April 20, 1921 (Wednesday)

• The first English-language production of Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom opens on Broadway in New York City, United States, starring Joseph Schildkraut and Eva Le Gallienne. It would go on to inspire Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical Carousel.[32]
• Born: Michiko Inukai, Japanese writer and philanthropist, in Tokyo (died 2017)

April 21, 1921 (Thursday)

• The third election to the Legislative Council of Ceylon is held in present-day Sri Lanka, then a British colony.[33]

April 22, 1921 (Friday)

• A total lunar eclipse is visible in parts of the Americas and Pacific region.[34]

April 23, 1921 (Saturday)

• The Italian schooner Annunziata is driven onto rocks at Sliema, Malta, and wrecked. Its six crew members are rescued.[35]

April 24, 1921 (Sunday)

• In a referendum in the Austrian state of Tyrol, voters favour unification with Germany.[36]

April 25, 1921 (Monday)

• Born: Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor and poet, in Amsterdam[37] (died 2006)

April 26, 1921 (Tuesday)

• In Turin, Italy, Fascists occupy and burn the Camera del Lavoro.[38]

April 27, 1921 (Wednesday)

• Lord Edmund Talbot is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in succession to Viscount French, and given the title of Viscount FitzAlan. FitzAlan becomes the first Roman Catholic to hold the office since 1685.[39]
• Liberal MP J. H. Whitley is elected to replace James Lowther as Speaker of the British House of Commons.[40]
• The mayoral election in Invercargill, New Zealand, is won by John Lillicrap.[41]

April 28, 1921 (Thursday)

• The World Chess Championship, held in Havana, Cuba, ends in victory for the Cuban José Raúl Capablanca, after his opponent Emanuel Lasker concedes.[42]

April 29, 1921 (Friday)

April 30, 1921 (Saturday)

• Pope Benedict XV issues the encyclical In praeclara summorum, dedicated to the memory of Dante Alighieri.[43]
• Born: Tove Maës, Danish actress, in Copenhagen[44] (died 2010)

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