February 1921

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February 23, 1921: U.S. pilot Jack Knight shows that safe airplane flight can be made at night
February 25, 1921: Soviet troops and local Communists conquer the Georgian Republic
February 28, 1921: The Cleveland Clinic admits its first patients

The following events happened in February 1921:

February 1, 1921 (Tuesday)

February 2, 1921 (Wednesday)

  • In the Clonfin Ambush, "The first major IRA attack with what we would now recognise as an IED with sufficient explosive power to bring the fight to a quick result" [5] the Irish Republican Army detonated an improvised explosive device to stop two truckloads of the Royal Irish Constabulary auxiliary and then to fire on them. In the fight that followed at Clonfin in County Longford, four of the 19 RIC men were killed and eight wounded, and further ambushes using IEDs followed.
  • The British-registered ship Esperanza de Larrinaga departed from Norfolk, Virginia on a voyage to Reggio Calabria in Italy, but never arrived. On the same day, the Italian steamship Monte San Michele left New York with a cargo of grain to ship to Genoa and was not seen again. The search for both ships, as well as the freighter Ottawa, would be abandoned after more than two months after searchers concluded that the vessels had been lost with all hands.[6]
  • Born: Hyacinthe Thiandoum, Senegalese Roman Catholic Cardinal and the Archbishop of Dakar from 1962 to 2000; in Poponguine (d. 2004)[7]
  • Died:

February 3, 1921 (Thursday)

  • An ambush by the Irish Republican Army killed 17 policemen in Queenstown in County Cork. On the same day at Burgatia, 500 Sinn Feiners fought a pitched battle against the constabulary.[10][1]
  • Thirty-six unemployed workers and six Chilean Army soldiers were killed in a clash with a larger number of unemployed workmen at the nitrate factory at San Gregorio.[11]
  • U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, at the request of President-Elect Warren G. Harding, called a special session of the U.S. Senate to begin on the morning of the March 4 presidential Inauguration Day to approve Harding's appointments for a new cabinet.[1]
  • Born: George E. Felton, British computer scientist who developed the GEORGE series of operating systems, in Paris, France (d. 2019)[12]

February 4, 1921 (Friday)

  • Germany had been preparing in 1918 to bomb New York City with the Airship L-72, U.S. Army Brigadier General Billy Mitchell testified before the U.S. House Naval Affairs Committee, and the ship was "ready to make the trip when the Armistice was signed".[13] "I believe that it could have attacked New York City with success," General Mitchell told the committee. "It was designed to fly at a height of 30,000 feet (9,100 m), thus making it virtually immune from attacks by airplanes on its trip here." Mitchell added that the U.S. Army was working on producing a similar weapon. L-72 was surrendered to France as part of German disarmament, and renamed the Dixmude.
  • Dimitrios Rallis resigned as Prime Minister of Greece after a disagreement with his Minister of War, Dimitrios Gounaris over going to war with Turkey.[14]
  • Lonnie Eaton, an African-American convicted of murder, was scheduled to be executed in Monroe, Louisiana, but Ouachita Parish Sheriff T. A. Grant forgot to carry out the hanging and nobody reminded him of the Governor's death warrant. Four days later, the embarrassed sheriff notified Governor John M. Parker and asked what he should do.[15] On April 22, Governor Parker commuted Eaton's sentence to life in prison upon recommendation of the state board of pardons.[16]
  • Japan's War Minister, Count Tanaka Giichi, announced that another division of troops would be sent to its Governorate of Chosen, the Japanese Empire's Korea territory.[1]
  • Born:

February 5, 1921 (Saturday)

February 6, 1921 (Sunday)

February 7, 1921 (Monday)

  • The Army Reduction Resolution, calling for the U.S. Army to be reduced to 175,000 soldiers, passed by Congress and then vetoed by U.S. President Wilson, became effective as both Houses of Congress voted overwhelmingly to override the veto. The House voted 271 to 16 to override on February 5, and the Senate followed suit, 67 to 1.[24]
  • Italy's Foreign Minister, Count Carlo Sforza, announced that the Allied Supreme Council was reducing the amount expected from Germany to pay for Allied occupation of the Rhineland by 83% to only 240 million gold marks (12 million pounds sterling or 47 million U.S. dollars), a savings equivalent of $300 million per year, to be made up for by the 12% tax on German exports.[25]

February 8, 1921 (Tuesday)

February 9, 1921 (Wednesday)

Parliament House in New Delhi

February 10, 1921 (Thursday)

  • Thirty-two people were killed as a tornado swept through the African-American town of Gardner in Washington County, Georgia, and 40 injured.[32][33] Over 100 people were left homeless by the twister, that swept through the settlement shortly after 12:00 noon. All but two of the persons killed were African-American, and the Red Cross provided the relief efforts for the injured and the homeless.[34]
  • Japan's House of Representatives voted 38 in favor and 245 against a proposal by opposition leader Yukio Ozaki to reduce the number of new ships to be built for the Imperial Japanese Navy.[1]

February 11, 1921 (Friday)

February 12, 1921 (Saturday)

February 13, 1921 (Sunday)

February 14, 1921 (Monday)

  • Vearl J. Manwill and some associates located the Timpanogos Cave in northern Utah near Provo and close to the town of Highland.
  • With Bolshevik uprisings having started in the Georgian Republic and a Russian invasion expected, Georgia's Constituent Assembly appointed General Giorgi Kvinitadze as the Georgian Army's Commander-in-Chief in order to defend the nation.[41]
  • The comic strip Gasoline Alley written since November 24, 1918, took a new turn with the introduction of "Skeezix" as a baby left on the doorstep of Walt Wallet.[42] From there, the strip became the first in which "the characters in the strip grew old along with the readers" as time went on.
  • The U.S. Census Bureau announced that the mean center of the United States population had moved to "the extreme southeast corner of Owen County, Indiana, 8.3 miles southeast of the town of Spencer" after having been "about one-fifth of a mile north from Bloomington, Ind., where it was located by the census of 1910." [43]
  • Born:

February 15, 1921 (Tuesday)

Mott, Anthony and Stanton
  • On the occasion of her 101st birthday, a statue of women's suffragist Susan B. Anthony (along with fellow suffragists Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton) was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in honor of the granting of the right to vote to women.[45] Soon after the dedication, however, the statue was moved to the basement of the Capitol, where it would remain for 75 years before being returned to the Rotunda in 1997.
  • As a demonstration that an
    appendix, applying the sutures and stitching his own incision.[46]

February 16, 1921 (Wednesday)

February 17, 1921 (Thursday)

February 18, 1921 (Friday)

February 19, 1921 (Saturday)

February 20, 1921 (Sunday)

The Gurdwara [58]

February 21, 1921 (Monday)

Ahmad Shah Qajar
Coup leader Tabatabaee

February 22, 1921 (Tuesday)

Mongol ruler Bogd Khan

February 23, 1921 (Wednesday)

De Geer
U.S. Air Mail stamp
  • The moderately conservative public official Oscar von Sydow became the new Prime Minister of Sweden, succeeding Baron Louis De Geer.
  • The
    air mail delivery, conveying mail posted the day before at San Francisco to delivery in New York City, in 33 hours and 20 minutes, becoming the first person to fly through the night rather than waiting for daylight. Pilot Jack Knight departed the morning before at 4:30 Pacific time (7:30 Eastern) from San Francisco and landed at Cheyenne, Wyoming in daylight, then took off at dusk and flew all night in darkness to Chicago, 839 miles (1,350 km) away, before another pilot, Ernest M. Allison, continued on the rest of the way to a landing at 4:50 in the afternoon Eastern time at an airfield at Roosevelt Field on Long Island across from New York City. The Post Office said in a press release that the night time flight was "the momentous step in civil aviation" and pledged to inaugurate regular nighttime flights.[73] The demonstration flight showed that air mail delivery could be feasible, since previous flights had been limited to daylight hours with long layovers through the night. On July 1, 1924, the Post Office would make any-hour flying a regular policy, cutting the time for a transcontinental trip (between New York and San Francisco) from 72 hours to 33 hours. The actual time in the air for the 2,666 miles (4,291 km) transcontinental trip was 25 hours and 53 minutes. Knight was one of four pilots making simultaneous transcontinental flights. The two westbound flights from New York were grounded by bad weather after reaching Chicago, and the other eastbound flight, piloted by U.S. Army Captain W. F. Lewis, crashed at Elko, Nevada
    .
  • Died:

February 24, 1921 (Thursday)

  • General Giorgi Kvinitadze and the Georgian Army retreated from Tbilisi as the Soviet 11th Army and 9th Army approached, in order to defend the seat of government at Batumi.[38]
  • U.S. Army 1st Lt. William D. Coney of the
    DeHavilland DH-4
    .
  • Born: Abe Vigoda, American film and TV actor, best known for the sitcom Barney Miller (d. 2016)

February 25, 1921 (Friday)

  • Less than two weeks after invading the Democratic Republic of Georgia, the Soviet Union's Red Army captured the Georgian capital Tiflis (now Tbilisi) [38] and installed a Communist government led by Filipp Makharadze, which would soon vote to be annexed as the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic into the USSR.[74][75] The rest of the country was overrun within three weeks, but it was not until September 1924 that Soviet rule was firmly established. Since 2010, February 25 has been a day of remembrance and a holiday, recognized as Soviet Occupation Day to remind citizens of the 70 years that Georgia was under control of the Communists.
  • Congressman Patrick McLane (D-Pennsylvania) was removed from his seat by a 161 to 121 vote of his colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives, on charges that he had committed election fraud in the November voting and had violated the Corrupt Practices Act. The House then voted to accept the report of the House Committee of Elections and its recommendations, and declared that McLane's opponent, John R. Farr, had won the election and should be entitled to take office on March 4.[76]
  • The Southern Conference was formed by 14 major U.S. universities that had departed the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. At its height, it would have 23 member institutions, before 13 departed in 1933 to form the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and in 1953, seven more would leave to form the Atlantic Coast Conference.
  • Born: Pierre Laporte, Canadian politician who was Deputy Premier of Quebec when he was kidnapped and murdered in 1970; in Montreal (d. 1970)
  • Died:
    American Beauty rose

February 26, 1921 (Saturday)

February 27, 1921 (Sunday)

February 28, 1921 (Monday)

  • The Kronstadt rebellion was initiated by sailors of the Soviet Navy's Baltic Fleet with the presentation by Stephen Petrichenko, chief clerk of the battleship Petropavlovsk, of 15 demands by the men of that ship and the Sevastopol, to the Kronstadt Communist Party Council.[81]
  • The Cleveland Clinic, now one of the most famous hospitals in the United States, admitted its first patients, with 42 persons being checked in.[82]
  • An attempt by Costa Rica to invade Panama was halted by the Panamanian Army at the border town of Coto, and U.S. troops moved into Panama City to protect that nation's government.[83]
  • At the Irish city of
    Cork, six IRA members were executed by order of court martial for levying war on British forces. In reprisal, five British soldiers in Cork were killed by the IRA.[46]
  • Aircraft Transport and Travel, founded in 1916 and one of the first airlines in Britain, ceased operations along with two others, after the French government began subsidizing its three airlines licensed to carry passengers.[84]
  • French troops, including Algerian, Moroccan and Senegalese soldiers recruited from French-controlled portions of Africa, were sent to the border with Germany in preparation of an invasion and occupation of Germany's
    Ruhr area to enforce reparations.[85]
  • Born:

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