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The following events occurred in December 1921:

December 1, 1921 (Thursday)

• Riots break out in Vienna as a result of price rises.[1]

December 2, 1921 (Friday)

• Born: Carlo Furno, Italian cardinal, in Bairo, Piedmont (died 2015)[2]

December 3, 1921 (Saturday)

December 4, 1921 (Sunday)

• Born: Deanna Durbin, Canadian singer, in Winnipeg, as Edna Mae Durbin (d. 2013)[3]

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.[4]
• The Football Association, governing body of association football in England, bans women from playing at FA-affiliated pitches (the only ones with spectator facilities), saying that "the game of football is quite unsuitable for females".[5]
• The 11th season of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association begins.[6]
• Born: Alvy Moore, American actor (d. 1997)

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.[7]
• 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.[8]
• Born: Otto Graham, American football player, in Waukegan, Illinois (died 2003)

December 8, 1921 (Thursday)

December 9, 1921 (Friday)

• The strong anti-knocking effect of the lead compound tetraethyllead (TEL) in gasoline is discovered by Kettering, Midgley and Boyd at the General Motors laboratories in the United States.[9]
• Anti-Christian pamphleteer John William Gott becomes the last person in England to be publicly prosecuted and imprisoned for blasphemous libel.[10]
• 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.[11]
• Erwin Schrödinger delivers his inaugural lecture at the University of Zürich, contributing to the history of quantum theory.[12]

December 10, 1921 (Saturday)

• Born: Toh Chin Chye, Singaporean politician (died 2012)
• Died: George Ashlin, Irish architect (b. 1837)

December 11, 1921 (Sunday)

December 12, 1921 (Monday)

• Died: Henrietta Swan Leavitt, 53, American astronomer[13]

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.[14]

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 (died 1965)[15]

December 16, 1921 (Friday)

• Died: Camille Saint-Saëns, 86, French composer [16] (subscription required)

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, (died 1993)[17]

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.[18]
• Died:
  • Dmitri Parsky, 55, Russian general (typhus)[19]
  • Julius Richard Petri, 69, German microbiologist[20]

December 21, 1921 (Wednesday)

• Born: Luigi Creatore, US songwriter and record producer, in New York City (died 2015)[21]

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.[22]

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 (died 2000)[23]

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.[24]

December 29, 1921 (Thursday)

• Liberal leader William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Canada's tenth prime minister.[25]

December 30, 1921 (Friday)

• Gun Alley Murder: In Melbourne, Australia, a 12-year-old schoolgirl is raped and murdered.[26] The case would later become known for a probable miscarriage of justice.
• Born: Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman, ten times prime minister, in Miriata (died 1987)[27]

December 31, 1921 (Saturday)

• The Men's Singles competition at the 1921 Australasian Championships in Perth, Australia, is won by Rice Gemmell.[28]
• Born: Maurice Yaméogo, President of Upper Volta, in Koudougou (died 1993)[29]
• Died: Boies Penrose, 61, long-serving U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania [30]

References

1. Great Britain. Dept. of Overseas Trade (1921). Report on Economic and Commercial Conditions in Austria. H.M. Stationery Office. pp. 6–10.
2. "Morto il cardinale Carlo Furno, già Nunzio apostolico in Italia". La Stampa (in Italian). 10 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
3. Harris M. Lentz III (23 May 2014). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2013. McFarland. p. 99. ISBN 978-1-4766-1652-0.
4. "Collins' meeting with Lloyd George – 5 December 1921". National Archives of Ireland. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
5. Anna Doble (9 June 2015). "The secret history of women's football". BBC Newsbeat. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
6. Boileau, Ron; Wolf, Philip (2000), "The Pacific Coast Hockey Association", in Diamond, Dan (ed.), Total Hockey, pp. 51–54, ISBN 1-892129-85-X
7. "Official Correspondence relating to the Peace Negotiations, part 1: Preliminary Correspondence". CELT. University College, Cork. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
8. Canadian Historic Sites; Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History: Lieux Historiques Canadiens; Cahiers D'archéologie Et D'histoire. Parks Canada. 1974. p. 152.
9. Albert Lidgett (1970). Petroleum Times. Petroleum Times. p. 23.
10. Royle, Edward. "Gott, John William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47693. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
11. "Victorious '11' To Dine, Dance: Junior College Folk Plan Fete for Athletes". Detroit Free Press. December 4, 1921. p. 82 – via Newspapers.com.
12. J. E. Baggott; Jim Baggott (24 February 2011). The Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments. OUP Oxford. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-19-956684-6.
13. Harry G. Lang; Professor Center for Research and Learning Rochester Institute of Technology Harry G Lang; Bonnie Meath-Lang (1995). Deaf Persons in the Arts and Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-313-29170-8.
14. J. Chal Vinson The Drafting of the Four-Power Treaty of the Washington Conference, Journal of Modern History, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Mar., 1953), pp. 40–47
15. John Arthur Garraty; Mark Christopher Carnes (1 January 1999). American National Biography. Oxford University Press. p. 429. ISBN 978-0-19-512787-4.
16. Prod'homme, Jacques-Gabriel (October 1922). "Camille Saint-Saëns" (PDF). The Musical Quarterly. 8: 469–486. doi:10.1093/mq/viii.4.469. ISSN 0027-4631. JSTOR 737853.
17. Andreevski, C. (1991). Razgovori so Koneski (in Macedonian). Skopje: Kultura. p. 76.
18. Cunneen, Chris. "Dooley, James Thomas (1877 - 1950)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
19. Mikhail Bonch-Bruevich (1966). From tsarist general to Red Army commander. Progress Publishers. p. 253.
20. "Julius Richard Petri, inventor of the Petri dish, celebrated in Google Doodle". The Telegraph. 31 May 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
21. Roberts, Sam (15 December 2015). "Luigi Creatore, Songwriter and Producer, Dies at 93". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
22. Ashok Rudra (1996). Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis: A Biography. Oxford University Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-19-563679-6.
23. Current Biography Yearbook. H. W. Wilson Co. 1982. p. 1.
24. 4 Billion Lire Owed By Banca Di Sconto, The New York Times, December 31, 1921
25. Canada. Privy Council Office; Public Archives Canada (1982). Guide to Canadian Ministries Since Confederation, July 1, 1867-February 1, 1982. Government of Canada, Privy Council Office. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-660-11156-8.
26. "GUN ALLEY MURDER". The Daily Telegraph. XLII (3). Tasmania, Australia. 4 January 1922. p. 5. Retrieved 30 July 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
27. The New York Times Biographical Service. University Microfilms. 1987. p. 539.
28. "Grand Slam Tennis Archive - Australasian Open 1921". Archived from the original on 2017-09-08. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
29. États africains d'expression française et République malgache, Paris, Éditions Julliard, 1964, p. 73 (French)
30. Jan Onofrio (1 January 1999). Pennsylvania Biographical Dictionary. Somerset Publishers, Inc. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-403-09950-4.