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Events on Saturday 12 March 1921 4
1921Cairo ConferenceBritish officials redraw the postwar Middle EastBritish 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 – 1986Gordon MacRae (1921-1986)American baritone and actor, Curly in Oklahoma! and Billy Bigelow in Carousel.
1921Gordon MacRae born in East OrangeGordon MacRae is born in East Orange.
1921The Cairo ConferenceCairo, EgyptAs 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.