June 1921

[June 1], 1921 (Wednesday)

• The Zanzibari general election results in the Zanzibar Nationalist Party and the Afro-Shirazi Party winning an equal number of seats on a turnout of 96.5%. The ZNP forms a coalition with the Zanzibar and Pemba People's Party.
• The 1921 Canadian Census is taken.
• Born: Nelson Riddle, US musician and bandleader, in Oradell, New Jersey

  [June 2], 1921 (Thursday)

• A company of the United States 180th Cavalry Regiment is redesignated as Company L, Third Infantry.

  [June 3], 1921 (Friday)

• Sweden abolishes the death penalty.
• The Birthday Honours of King George V of the United Kingdom recognise, among others, Canadian manufacturer Douglas Alexander Indian businessman and philanthropist Jehangir H. Kothari and Scottish legal expert John Rankine.
• The 1921 Far Eastern Championship Games draw to an end in Shanghai, China. China, Japan and the Philippines are the only competing countries.

  [June 4], 1921 (Saturday)

• Died: Ludwig Knorr, 61, German chemist, co-developer of Aspirin

  [June 5], 1921 (Sunday)

• A treaty is signed between Czechoslovakia and Romania, to combat possible Hungarian revisionism; this is part of the so-called "Little Entente".
• Died: Laura Bromwell, 24, US stunt pilot, killed after she loses control of her plane at the top of a loop over Long Island, New York, and crashes from an altitude of 1,000 feet.

  [June 6], 1921 (Monday)

• The Spanish cargo ship Ramon Mumbru springs a leak and sinks in the Mediterranean Sea off Cavalaire-sur-Mer, France.

  [June 7], 1921 (Tuesday)

• An assistance pact is signed between Romania and Yugoslavia.
• Patick Maher and Edmond Foley, the last of the "Forgotten Ten" Irish republicans, are executed in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin.
• In the Los Angeles mayoral election, incumbent Meredith P. Snyder is narrowly defeated by George E. Cryer.

  [June 8], 1921 (Wednesday)

• Born: Suharto, Indonesian leader, in Kemusuk

  [June 9], 1921 (Thursday)

• The 1921 Saskatchewan general election in Canada results in the re-election of the Liberal Party of Saskatchewan led by Premier William M. Martin, with a diminished share of the popular vote, and a reduced caucus in the legislature.

  [June 10], 1921 (Friday)

• Tristan Tzara's Le Cœur à gaz is performed for the first time, during a Dada art exhibition at the Galerie Montaigne in Paris, France. It is later dubbed "the greatest three-act hoax of the century".
• D. H. Lawrence's controversial novel, Women in Love, is published in the UK for the first time. W. Charles Pilley, an early reviewer, writes: "I do not claim to be a literary critic, but I know dirt when I smell it, and here is dirt in heaps—festering, putrid heaps which smell to high Heaven."
• The Greek cargo ship Bouboulina strikes a mine and sinks in the Gulf of Smyrna off Uzunada, Turkey with the loss of 22 of her 30 crew.
• Born: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, in Corfu, Greece

  [June 11], 1921 (Saturday)

[June 12], 1921 (Sunday)

• Greco-Turkish War : Greece's prime minister, Dimitrios Gounaris, travels to Izmir by battleship.
• Born: Johan Witteveen, Dutch economist and politician, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund 1973-1978, in Zeist

  [June 13], 1921 (Monday)

• The British cargo ship Canastota leaves Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, bound for Wellington, New Zealand. It never arrives, and is presumed to have foundered in the Pacific Ocean with the loss of all hands; fire-damaged wreckage was eventually washed ashore.

  [June 14], 1921 (Tuesday)

• The US consul in Jamaica investigates charges laid by Marcus Garvey against the captain and chief engineer of the Kanawha, and exonerates them.

  [June 15], 1921 (Wednesday)

• The SS Paris, the biggest ocean liner of its time, begins its maiden voyage, from Le Havre in France to New York City in the United States.

  [June 16], 1921 (Thursday)

• In the UK, the Hertford by-election, caused by the resignation of incumbent MP Noel Pemberton Billing on health grounds, is won by Murray Sueter for the Anti-Waste League.
• T. C. Glashen, a supporter of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, is arrested in the United States for "inciting a riot" and deported to Cuba.

  [June 17], 1921 (Friday)

• The British House of Commons debates the Imperial Conference to be held in London, with the ministers of British Dominions present in a special gallery.

  [June 18], 1921 (Saturday)

• The second leg of the National Final of the 1921–22 Prima Divisione, Italy's major football championship, ends in overall victory for Pro Vercelli over Fortitudo Roma.

  [June 19], 1921 (Sunday)

• Born: Louis Jourdan, French actor, in Marseille

  [June 20], 1921 (Monday)

• The annual Wimbledon tennis championships open in London, running until 2 July.

  [June 21], 1921 (Tuesday)

• The International Hydrographic Organization is established, as the International Hydrographic Bureau.
• Born:
• *Judy Holliday, US actress, in Lower East Side, Manhattan, as Judith Tuvim
• *Jane Russell, US actress, in Bemidji, Minnesota

  [June 22], 1921 (Wednesday)

• The new Parliament of Northern Ireland meets at Belfast City Hall and is opened by George V of the United Kingdom, with a speech calling for reconciliation in Ireland.

  [June 23], 1921 (Thursday)

• The Harvard Glee Club arrives in Paris, France, and is received at the Hotel de Ville at the start of a European tour.

  [June 24], 1921 (Friday)

• The 1921 Women's Olympiad, the first international women's sports event, a multi-sport tournament organised by Alice Milliat, opens in Monte Carlo.

  [June 25], 1921 (Saturday)

• The 1921 Open Championship is won by Scottish-born Jock Hutchison at the Old Course at St Andrews, UK.

  [June 26], 1921 (Sunday)

• The 15th Tour de France cycle race opens in Paris.
• The Australian passenger ship founders off the coast of New South Wales with the loss of 31 lives.
• Born: Violette Szabo, French World War II heroine, in Paris, as Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushell

  [June 27], 1921 (Monday)

• Italy's prime minister, Giovanni Giolitti, resigns, following a small but insufficient majority obtained in a confidence vote on the previous day.
• Greco-Turkish War : Earl Granville informs the UK Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon that Greece is about to launch a major offensive against Turkish troops commanded by Ismet Inönü in Anatolia.
• The first signing of Treaty 11, between King George V of the United Kingdom and various First Nation band governments in the Northwest Territories of Canada, takes place at Fort Providence.

  [June 28], 1921 (Tuesday)

• The Vidovdan Constitution is adopted by a Constitutional Assembly of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
• A new Parliament of Southern Ireland meets at the Royal College of Science for Ireland in Dublin and is opened by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Viscount FitzAlan. In addition to the appointed Senate, only the four Unionist MPs representing the University of Dublin attend the House of Commons. Having elected Gerald Fitzgibbon to be Speaker, the House adjourns sine die.
• The UK Air Navigation and Transport Act becomes law, giving the British Empire authority over all air navigation in the British Commonwealth of Nations.
• Born: P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian politician, Prime Minister 1991-6, in Narsampet

  [June 29], 1921 (Wednesday)

• Died: Jennie Spencer-Churchill, née Jerome, 67, US-born British socialite, of complications resulting from a fall

  [June 30], 1921 (Thursday)

• In Australian rules football, North Melbourne Football Club disbands, in an attempt to obtain entry to the Victorian Football League. The attempt is foiled by a legal challenge. The club subsequently merges with the Essendon Association Club.