December 1921
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The following events occurred in December 1921:
December 1, 1921 (Thursday)
- Rising prices cause riots in Vienna.
December 2, 1921 (Friday)
- Born: Carlo Furno, Italian cardinal (d. 2015)
December 4, 1921 (Sunday)
- Born: Deanna Durbin, Canadian singer (d. 2013)
December 5, 1921 (Monday)
- 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.
- Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to be elected to the Canadian Parliament.
- Born: Otto Graham, American football player (d. 2003)
December 10, 1921 (Saturday)
- Died: George Ashlin, Irish architect (b. 1837)
December 12, 1921 (Monday)
- Died: Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (b. 1868)
December 13, 1921 (Tuesday)
- In the Four-Power Treaty on Insular Possessions, Japan, the United States, United Kingdom, and France agree to recognize the status quo in the Pacific.
December 16, 1921 (Friday)
- Died: Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835)
December 19, 1921 (Monday)
- Born: Blaže Koneski, Macedonian poet and linguist (d.1993)
December 20, 1921 (Tuesday)
- Died:
- Dmitri Parsky, Russian general (b. 1866)
- Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist (b. 1852)
December 21, 1921 (Wednesday)
- Born: Luigi Creatore, American songwriter and record producer (d. 2015)
December 23, 1921 (Friday)
- Visva-Bharati College is founded by Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan, Bengal Presidency, British India.
December 26, 1921 (Monday)
- Born: Steve Allen, American actor, composer, comedian, and author (d.2000)
December 29, 1921 (Thursday)
- William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Canada's tenth prime minister.
December 31, 1921 (Saturday)
- Born: Maurice Yaméogo, President of Upper Volta (d.1993)
- Died: Boies Penrose, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (b. 1860)
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