Timeline March 1921

Events in March 1921 15

• 1841 – 1921 Nicholas I of Montenegro (1841-1921) Died 1 March 1921, aged 79 Nicholas I, the last king of Montenegro, died in exile in Antibes, France, having ruled first as prince and then as king from 1860 until his kingdom was absorbed into the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918. He was known across Europe's royal houses as the "father-in-law of Europe" for marrying his daughters into several reigning dynasties. He never returned to Montenegro after fleeing the Austro-Hungarian invasion of 1916.
• 1913 – 1921 Wilson presidency 28th President — 1913 to 1921 Woodrow Wilson served as the 28th President from March 5, 1913 to March 4, 1921. He led the US into WWI, proposed the Fourteen Points peace plan, and founded the League of Nations (though the US never joined).
• 1921 – 1923 Harding presidency 29th President — died in office 1923 Warren G. Harding served as the 29th President from March 4, 1921 until his death on August 2, 1923. His "Return to Normalcy" agenda included tax cuts and isolationism. The Teapot Dome scandal emerged after his death.
• 1921 Kronstadt rebellion suppressed Bolshevik forces crush the sailors' uprising at Kronstadt naval base Sailors and workers at the Kronstadt naval base near Petrograd rose up demanding political freedoms and an end to Bolshevik one-party rule. The Red Army under Mikhail Tukhachevsky stormed the fortress across the ice, crushing the revolt after roughly ten days of fighting. Thousands were killed or later executed, and the episode pushed Lenin toward the New Economic Policy.
• 1921 Cairo Conference British officials redraw the postwar Middle East British colonial officials, including Winston Churchill and T. E. Lawrence, met in Cairo to settle the administration of Britain's new Middle Eastern mandates. The conference recommended installing Faisal as king of Iraq and his brother Abdullah as ruler of Transjordan. Its decisions shaped the borders and monarchies of the region for decades.
• 1921 – 1986 Gordon MacRae (1921-1986) American baritone and actor, Curly in Oklahoma! and Billy Bigelow in Carousel.
• 1921 Gordon MacRae born in East Orange Gordon MacRae is born in East Orange.
• 1921 The Cairo Conference Cairo, Egypt As Churchill's adviser at the Colonial Office, Lawrence helped install Faisal as king of Iraq and his brother Abdullah in Transjordan — the settlement he regarded as his partial redemption for 1919.
• 1921 First birth control clinic opens in Britain Marie Stopes opens the Mothers' Clinic in London Marie Stopes opened the Mothers' Clinic in Holloway, north London, offering free birth control advice to married women. It was the first clinic of its kind in the British Empire. The clinic's approach became a model for family planning services that spread across Britain in following decades.
• 1921 Treaty of Riga signed Peace treaty ends the Polish-Soviet War Poland and Soviet Russia signed the Treaty of Riga, ending the Polish-Soviet War and fixing their common border for the next two decades. The treaty divided disputed territories in Belarus and Ukraine between the two states. It remained the basis of Poland's eastern frontier until the Soviet invasion of 1939.
• 1921 New Economic Policy introduced Lenin shifts Soviet Russia from war communism to limited markets The Tenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party adopted the New Economic Policy, replacing forced grain requisitioning with a tax in kind and permitting small private trade. The policy aimed to revive an economy devastated by civil war and war communism. It remained in force until Stalin's collectivization drive at the end of the 1920s.
• 1921 – 2010 Vasily Smyslov World Chess Champion and endgame expert Vasily Smyslov was World Champion from 1957 to 1958 and became known for harmonious positional play and exceptional endgame technique.
• 1921 – 1985 Simone Signoret (1921-1985) Died 30 September 1985, aged 64 Signoret was a French actress who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Room at the Top in 1959. She was also known for her memoirs and her long marriage to singer Yves Montand. She died in Autheuil-Authouillet, France, on 30 September 1985.
• 1921 – 2000 Harold Nicholas (1921-2000) American dancer, one of the Nicholas Brothers, famous for acrobatic tap routines.
• 1921 Harold Nicholas born in Winston-Salem Harold Nicholas is born in Winston-Salem.