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April 1921
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The following events occurred in April 1921:

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April 11, 1921: Britain creates Emirate of Transjordan east of Jordan River
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April 28, 1921: Capablanca defeats Lasker for World Chess Championship
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April 10, 1921: Physicist Albert Einstein and Zionist activist Chaim Weizmann arrive in New York to lobby for Jewish state
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April 15, 1921: Liberian President King visits U.S. President Harding
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April 1, 1921 (Friday)

  • Eight people drowned in the sinking of the passenger ship SS Governor after it collided in the fog with the freighter SS West Harlland, but 232 others were safely rescued in the 20 minutes available before the ship sank.[1]
  • French pilot Adrienne Bolland made the first flight across the Andes by a woman, when she flew a Caudron G.3 from Mendoza, Argentina, to Santiago, Chile.[2]
  • Croatia's Republican Peasant Party launched the "Constitution of the Neutral Peasant Republic of Croatia".[3]
  • The lockout of striking coal miners in the United Kingdom began.[4]
  • An attempt to impeach Governor of Oklahoma J. B. Robertson failed when the state House of Representatives result was 42 for and 42 against, insufficient to pass the resolution for a trial.[5]
  • The cabinet of U.S. president Warren G. Harding issued a statement proclaiming that its members, individually, were in sympathy with the Allied Powers regarding Germany's indemnity payments.[5]
  • Born: Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, American country musician; in Clinton, South Carolina, United States (d. 2014)[6]
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April 2, 1921 (Saturday)

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Colonel Mohammad Taqi Pessian
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April 3, 1921 (Sunday)

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April 5, 1921 (Tuesday)

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April 6, 1921 (Wednesday)

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Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy
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April 7, 1921 (Thursday)

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April 8, 1921 (Friday)

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April 9, 1921 (Saturday)

  • The Banco Nacional de Cuba, largest bank in Cuba, suspended operations after the collapse of the island's sugar export economy.[5]
  • In Georgia, white plantation owner Jasper S. Williams was convicted of the murder of an African-American employee.[5]
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Ishar Singh
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April 11, 1921 (Monday)

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Emir Abdullah of Transjordan[39]
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Auguste Viktoria
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April 12, 1921 (Tuesday)

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April 13, 1921 (Wednesday)

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Istvan Friedrich

April 14, 1921 (Thursday)

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Teleki

April 15, 1921 (Friday)

  • France's Cabinet of Ministers voted to have the French Army occupy the entire Ruhr region of Germany unless payment of one billion German marks was made by May 10.[56][54]
  • Britain's railway and transport unions reversed their position and announced that they would not go on a sympathy strike to follow the striking coal miners.[54] The event was referred to by the striking miners as "Black Friday."
  • President Charles D.B. King of Liberia was welcomed by U.S. president Warren G. Harding, after a U.S. loan of $5,000,000 to Liberia was almost completely repaid.[54]
  • Poland ratified its peace treaty with the Soviet Union and Ukraine, acquiring the district of Polesia from Ukraine, 3,000 square kilometers near Minsk, and 30,000,000 gold rubles.[54]
  • The United States announced the return from Europe of 14,852 bodies of American soldiers who had been buried in France, and that 75,882 remained overseas, including 13,000 whose families had reversed their original request for a return of their relatives to the U.S.[57]
  • Born: Georgy Beregovoy, Soviet cosmonaut, earliest-born human being to orbit the Earth on Soyuz 3 in 1968; in Fedorivka, Poltava Oblast, Ukrainian SSR (present-day Ukraine) (d. 1995)[citation needed]
  • Died: Antonin Dubost, 79, French journalist and politician, former president of the French Senate (b. 1842)[58]

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April 22, 1921 (Friday)

  • Peru's president Augusto B. Leguia suspended the South American nation's Congress and declared a dictatorship.[54]
  • Over 100 people were injured in the town of Bound Brook, New Jersey, and one died, when a cloud of phosgene gas began spreading over the city in the early morning hours, the result of a faulty valve of a storage tank at a paint factory in town. The intervention of four people stopped further escape of the phosgene, which had been used in concentrated form as a chemical weapon during World War I.[78]
  • A total lunar eclipse was visible in parts of the Americas and Pacific region.[79]
  • Died: Vibeke Salicath, 59, Danish feminist and women's rights activist (b. 1861)[80]

April 23, 1921 (Saturday)

  • Service Employees International Union (SEIU) was founded in Chicago as a labor union for people working in health care, government employment and property services, initially as the Building Services Employees Union (BSEU).[81]
  • The U.S. Census Bureau announced that the total foreign-born population of the United States had increased by only 2.6% since 1910, for a total of 13,703,987 overall. From 1900 to 1910, the increase had been 30.7%. The Bureau ascribed the dramatic decrease in foreign population growth "to the almost complete cessation of immigration... and to considerable emigration" during World War I.[82] During World War I, the Bureau noted, over 800,000 German immigrants; 600,000 Austrians (over half of the Austrian-born U.S. population) 316,000 Irish and 203,783 Russians had left the United States.[83]
  • Died: John P. Young, 71, American journalist and historian (b. 1849)[84]

April 24, 1921 (Sunday)

  • In a plebiscite in the Austrian state of Tyrol, residents voted overwhelmingly to become part of Germany.[54][85]
  • Herbert Hoover's Near East Relief project announced that it had provided food relief to 561,970 people and spent $13,129,117 of its budget of $13.5 million.[54] The project had also distributed 300,000 garments.

April 25, 1921 (Monday)

  • Japan's House of Peers rejected the measure adopted by the House of Representatives to authorize the participation of women in political associations.[54]
  • Following up on the French ultimatum to Germany, the Allied Reparations Commission demanded that Germany deposit one billion marks worth of gold into the Bank of France by April 30.[86]
  • Communists seized control of the government of Fiume after being defeated in voting.[54]
  • The U.S. state of Nebraska prohibited persons other than U.S. citizens from acquiring property.[54] The law did not affect the property already owned by alien residents.
  • Born: Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor and poet; as Christiaan Karel Appel, in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 2006)[87]
  • Died: Thomas Traynor, 39, Irish Republican Army; hanged at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin after his conviction by a British Army court-martial for the ambush of two British cadets on March 14.[88]

April 26, 1921 (Tuesday)

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April 28, 1921 (Thursday)

April 29, 1921 (Friday)

  • Plans for national airline of airships, designed to transport passengers between New York, Chicago and San Francisco before the end of 1922 were announced by U.S. engineer Fred S. Hardesty, who told reporters that fifty million dollars worth of stock would be sold to finance the construction of dirigibles 757 feet (231 m) long. Hardesty said further that the new dirigibles would be able carry 52 passengers at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour (160 km/h), with service between New York and Chicago to start by the spring of 1922.[106]
  • The Portuguese ocean liner Mormugao, with 448 passengers and crew ran aground and was stranded near Block Island off of the coast of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, prompting a two-day rescue effort by the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy.[107] Women and children were brought to New Bedford, Massachusetts later in the day and the remaining 148 male passengers were rescued the next day.[108]
  • The Fascist Party staged a countercoup in Fiume and drove out the Communists.[54]
  • Died: Arthur Mold, 57, English cricketer (b. 1863)[109]

April 30, 1921 (Saturday)

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Pope Benedict XV

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