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The following events occurred in November 1921:

November 1, 1921 (Tuesday)

November 2, 1921 (Wednesday)

• The Swedish cargo ship Bellgrove founders in the North Sea off Lønstrup, Denmark, with the loss of fifteen of its nineteen crew.[1]
• The French cargo ship Député Raoul Briquet capsizes and sinks in the Thames Estuary, with the loss of one of the 28-man crew. Survivors are rescued by the trawlers Belmont and King Frederick III.[2]

November 3, 1921 (Thursday)

• Curtiss test pilot Bert Acosta wins the Pulitzer Trophy in a Curtiss CR-2, establishing a new closed-circuit air speed record of 284.36 km/h (176.7 mph).[3]
• Born: Charles Bronson, US actor, in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania (died 2003)[4]

November 4, 1921 (Friday)

• While Adolf Hitler is giving a speech at the Hofbräuhaus in Munich, Germany, a fight breaks out between his opponents and his body guards, members of the Sturmabteilung ("brownshirts").[5]
• French cargo ship Député Gaston Dumesnil leaves Penarth, Glamorgan, United Kingdom for Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, but founders in the Bristol Channel. The bodies of six of the crew are later washed up on the north coast of Cornwall.[6]
• Died:
  • Oscar Montelius, 78, Swedish archaeologist[7]
  • Hara Takashi, 65, Prime Minister of Japan, assassinated by railwayman Nakaoka Kon'ichi at Tōkyō Station.[8]

November 5, 1921 (Saturday)

• Born: Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, later Queen of Iran, at Ras el-Tin Palace, Alexandria (died 2013)[9]

November 6, 1921 (Sunday)

• Born: James Jones, US writer, in Robinson, Illinois (died 1977)[10]

November 7, 1921 (Monday)

• Norwegian cargo ship Alf founders in the North Sea off Lowestoft, Suffolk, United Kingdom, with the loss of sixteen of its eighteen crew.[11]
• US schooner Singleton Palmer collides with another US ship, Apache, in the Atlantic Ocean 10 nautical miles (19 km) off the Fenwick Island Lightship, and is abandoned with the loss of one crew member.[12]

November 8, 1921 (Tuesday)

• Born: Gene Saks, American actor and film director, in New York City (died 2015)[13]

November 9, 1921 (Wednesday)

• Italy's National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista or PNF) is founded in Rome.[14]
• The Colombian cargo ship Mensabe sinks during a voyage from Panama City to Buenaventura, resulting in the loss of seven of her eighteen crew.[15]

November 10, 1921 (Thursday)

• Died: Jennie Kidd Trout, 80, first woman in Canada to become a medical doctor legally and be licensed to practice medicine[16]

November 11, 1921 (Friday)

• During an Armistice Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, United States, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated by President Warren G. Harding.[17]
• The UK's first official "Poppy Day" takes place on Remembrance Day; poppies are sold by the Royal British Legion at the instigation of Madame Guérin.

November 12, 1921 (Saturday)

• The Washington Naval Conference opens in Washington, D.C., United States, attended by Britain, France, Italy and Japan.[18]
• Died: Fernand Khnopff, 63, Belgian Symbolist painter[19]

November 13, 1921 (Sunday)

November 14, 1921 (Monday)

• The Spanish Communist Party is established.[20]
• Luciano Perez Carpio, employee of the Private Secretary of the Presidency, protected by soldiers disguised as civilians, places a bomb at the feet of the Image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, located in the Basilica of that name. Explosion was heard within a radius of one kilometer. The image of Guadalupe suffered no consequences.[21]

November 15, 1921 (Tuesday)

November 16, 1921 (Wednesday)

November 17, 1921 (Thursday)

• New Zealand's first radio broadcast is made by Professor Robert Jack from the physics department of the University of Otago.[22]

November 18, 1921 (Friday)

November 19, 1921 (Saturday)

• Flying the same Curtiss CR-2 involved in his record-breaking flight of November 3, Bert Acosta sets a new world speed record of 197.8 mph (318.32 km/hr)[23]

November 20, 1921 (Sunday)

November 21, 1921 (Monday)

• Canada is granted its own armorial bearings by Royal Proclamation of King [[George V of the United Kingdom. Red and white are adopted as the country's official colours.[24]

November 22, 1921 (Tuesday)

• A treaty between the United Kingdom and Afghanistan is signed at Kabul, giving written assurances that no Russian consulates will be permitted in the areas adjoining the Indian frontier. The new treaty amends the Treaty of Rawalpindi originally agreed in August 1919, reaffirms Britain's recognition of Afghanistan's complete independence, restores to the privilege of importing munitions through India and transfers a small area near the Khyber Pass to Afghanistan.[25]

November 23, 1921 (Wednesday)

• The Sheppard–Towner Act is signed by US President Warren G. Harding, providing federal funding for maternity and child care.[26]

November 24, 1921 (Thursday)

November 25, 1921 (Friday)

• Crown Prince Hirohito is made regent of Japan in place of his sick father, Emperor Taishō.[27]

November 26, 1921 (Saturday)

November 27, 1921 (Sunday)

November 28, 1921 (Monday)

November 29, 1921 (Tuesday)

November 30, 1921 (Wednesday)

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1. "Swedish steamer sunk". The Times (42869). London. 4 November 1921. col C, p. 9.
2. "Casualty reports". The Times (42868). London. 3 November 1921. col E, p. 12.
3. Bill Gunston; David Taylor; Andy Ewart (1984). The Guinness book of speed facts & feats. Guinness Superlatives. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-85112-267-0.
4. Ira Mark Milne (28 June 1999). Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television. Gale. p. 66.
5. Alan Bullock (1991). Hitler and Stalin: parallel lives. HarperCollins. p. 85.
6. Wreckage and some of the crew washed up near Padstow.--Lettens, Jan. "SS Depute Gaston Dumesnil ? (Député(+1921)". wrecksite. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
7. "Oscar Montelius - Swedish archaeologist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
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9. "Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt". The Telegraph. 5 July 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
10. George Hendrick; Helen Howe; Don Sackrider (2001). James Jones and the Handy Writers' Colony. SIU Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-8093-2365-4.
11. "Gale havoc to shipping". The Times (42872). London. 8 November 1921. col C, p. 12.
12. "Casualty reports". The Times (42872). London. 8 November 1921. col C, p. 20.
13. "Gene Saks, director". The Telegraph. 30 March 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
14. Charles F. Delzell, edit., Mediterranean Fascism 1919-1945, New York, NY, Walker and Company, 1971, p. 26
15. "Casualty reports". The Times (42879). London. 16 November 1921. col F, p. 14.
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17. Michael J. Allen (18 September 2009). Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-8078-9531-3.
18. Donald Stoker (31 August 2003). Britain, France and the Naval Arms Trade in the Baltic, 1919 -1939: Grand Strategy and Failure. Routledge. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-135-77422-6.
19. Jeffery W. Howe (1982). The Symbolist Art of Fernand Khnopff. UMI Research Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-8357-1317-7.
20. Guy Hermet (1974). The Communists in Spain: Study of an Underground Political Movement. Ashgate Publishing Company. pp. 13–16. ISBN 978-0-347-01032-0.
21. Chavez, Eduardo (2006). Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego: The Historical Evidence. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, INC. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-7425-5104-6.
22. "Dashing heroes of a harbour crossing". Otago Daily Times. 6 September 2008. Archived from the original on 17 September 2008. Retrieved 20 September 2008.
23. Angelucci, Enzo, The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, ISBN 0-517-56588-9, p. 121.
24. James H. Marsh (1999). The Canadian Encyclopedia. The Canadian Encyclopedia. p. 758. ISBN 978-0-7710-2099-5.
25. Great Britain; Great Britain. Foreign Office (1931). Handbook of Commercial Treaties, Etc., with Foreign Powers. H.M. Stationery Office. pp. 7–8.
26. "The Sheppard–Towner Maternity and Infancy Act". History, Art & Archives. United States House of Representatives. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
27. Bix, Herbert P.. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. Harper Perennial (2001). Page 123. ISBN 0060931302}}