- 1921 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year
1921 in theUnited Kingdom .Incumbents
*Monarch -
George V of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -David Lloyd George , coalitionEvents
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1 January -Car tax disc s introduced.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
*3 January - Theairships R.36 andR.37 are completed.
*8 January -Chequers becomes the official residence of the Prime Minister.
*14 January -Unemployment stands at 927,000.
*20 January - TheRoyal Navy submarine K.5 sinks in theEnglish Channel with the loss of 56 lives.
*26 January - Seventeen people are killed when two passengertrains collide inMontgomeryshire .
*12 February -Winston Churchill is appointedColonial Secretary .
*16 February -Unemployment now stands at over one million. The Government announces an increase inunemployment benefit .
*11 March - Queen Mary becomes the first woman to be awarded an (honorary) degree byOxford University .
*16 March - The United Kingdom signs atrade agreement with theRussian SFSR .
*17 March
**Andrew Bonar Law , the Conservative leader, resigns due to ill-health.
** DrMarie Stopes opens the United Kingdom's firstbirth control clinic inHolloway, London .
*21 March -Austen Chamberlain replacesBonar Law as Conservative leader.
*26 March -Shaun Spadah wins theGrand National .
*31 March - A state of emergency is declared after another coal strike is called.
*3 April - Coal rationing begins.
*13 April -Lloyds Bank takes overFox, Fowler and Co , the last provincial English bank to issue its ownbanknotes .
*15 April - The national strike, due to be declared by the 'Triple Alliance', is called off.
*23 April - Tottenham Hotspur beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 in theFA Cup Final.
*26 April - Police patrolLondon on motorcycles for the first time.
*4 May - TheIrish Republican Army (IRA) kill a formerRoyal Irish Constabulary (RIC)inspector inGlasgow .
*7 May -Crown Prince Hirohito ofJapan arrives on an official visit.
*10 May -Ivy Williams becomes the first woman to become a member of theEnglish Bar . [ [http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1922/may_10_1922_82320.html Brainy History] ]
*22 May - TheUSA beats the United Kingdom 9 rounds to 3 in the firstgolf international between the two countries.
*24 May - Ingeneral election s for the newNorthern Ireland Parliament ,Ulster Unionists win 40 out of 52 seats.One-party rule will last for fifty years.
*1 June - Humorist wins the Derby. For the first time the result is broadcast live bywireless .
*6 June - King George V opensSouthwark Bridge inLondon .
*7 June - The newNorthern Ireland Parliament assembles.
*10 June -Unemployment reaches 2.2 million.
*12 June - Sunday postal collection and delivery ends.
*15 June - Two million workers are currently involved in pay disputes.
*22 June - King George V opens the firstNorthern Ireland Parliament .
*24 June - The world's largestairship , theR.38 , makes its maiden flight at Bedford.
*25 June - Rainfall ends a 100-daydrought .
*28 June - The coal strike ends.
*2 July -Bill Tilden andSuzanne Lenglen retain their Wimbledon titles.
*7 July - GeneralJan Smuts meets King George V to discuss the Irish situation.
*12 July -Sinn Féin representatives arrive inLondon for talks.
*18 July -Ulster Unionist negotiators walk out of the truce talks inLondon .
*19 August -Unemployment falls to 1,640,600.
*24 August - Theairship ZR II explodes at Hull, killing 43 people.
*30 August - England beatAustralia , for the first time this year, in the final Test Match.
*9 September -Charlie Chaplin visitsLondon and is met by thousands.
*17 September -Shackleton-Rowett Expedition :Ernest Shackleton sets sail on his last expedition toAntarctica . [cite web|url=http://www.south-pole.com/p000098b.htm|title=Shackleton Returns to Europe, South-Pole.com|accessdate=2007-08-19]
*23 September - The second femaleMember of Parliament enters Parliament.
*8 October - The steamer "Rowan" sinks off the coast ofScotland . 36 people lose their lives.
*11 October - TheIrish Treaty Conference opens inLondon .cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=490–491]
*11 November - theRoyal British Legion holds the first officialPoppy Day .
*21 November - Troops are sent to restore order after rioting breaks out in EastBelfast .
*22 November - At least ten people die in widespread shootings in Belfast.
*30 November - SirBasil Thompson retires after forty years as the head of theMetropolitan Police Special Branch .
*7 December - British and Irish negotiators sign an agreement giving independence to theIrish Free State .
*10 December -Frederick Soddy wins theNobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes". [ [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1921/ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1921] ]
*16 December - Parliament ratifies theAnglo-Irish Treaty .Publications
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Agatha Christie 'sHercule Poirot novel "The Mysterious Affair at Styles ".
*Aldous Huxley 's novel "Crome Yellow ".
*D. H. Lawrence 's novel "Women in Love ".Births
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13 March -Cyril Poole , cricketer (died 1996)
*28 March -Dirk Bogarde , actor and author (died 1999)
*16 April -Peter Ustinov , actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur (died 2004)
*23 May -Humphrey Lyttelton , jazz musician and broadcaster (died 2008)
*14 July -Leon Garfield , writer (died 1996)
*8 September -Harry Secombe , entertainer (died 2001)
*30 September -Deborah Kerr , actress (died 2007)
*2 October -Robert Runcie ,Archbishop of Canterbury (died 2000)
*11 November -Ron Greenwood , footballer and manager (died 2006)Deaths
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27 February -Schofield Haigh , cricketer (born 1871)
*22 March -Ernest William Hornung , author (born 1866)
*27 April -Arthur Mold , cricketer (born 1863)
*2 September -Henry Austin Dobson , poet (born 1840)
*7 September -Alfred William Rich , watercolour painter (born 1856)
*23 October -John Boyd Dunlop , inventor (born 1840)
*George Ashlin , architect (born 1837)References
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