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William J. Burns

William J. Burns

:For other people named Burns, see Burns (disambiguation). William J. Burns (1860-1932) is known for being the director of the Bureau of Investigation from August 22, 1921 to June 14, 1924. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and was educated in Columbus, Ohio. As a young man, Mr. Burns performed well as a Secret Service Agent and parleyed his reputation into the William J. Burns International Detective Agency. A combination of good casework and an instinct for publicity made Mr. Burns a national figure. His exploits made national news, the gossip columns of New York newspapers, and the pages of detective magazines, in which he published "true" crime stories based on his exploits.

Personal

He was well qualified to direct the Bureau, and was friends with Warren Harding's Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Burns was appointed as Director of the Bureau of Investigation on August 22, 1921. Under Mr. Burns, the Bureau shrank from its 1920 high of 1,127 personnel to around 600 three years later. He resigned in 1924 at the request of Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone because of his role in the Teapot Dome Scandal. This scandal involved the secret leasing of naval oil reserve lands to private companies. Mr. Burns retired to Florida and published detective and mystery stories based on his long career for several years. He died in Sarasota, Florida in April 1932. Burns, William J. Burns, William J. Burns, William J. Burns, William J.

Burns (disambiguation)

Burns refers to:
- Robert Burns, pioneer of the Romantic movement and Scotland's national poet
- Burns (clan), a Scottish clan
- several places:
  - Burns, Colorado, unincorporated community Eagle County, Colorado
  - Burns, Kansas, town Marion County, Kansas
  - Burns, New South Wales was a town on the border of New South Wales-South Australia in Australia, now a part of Cockburn-Burns
  - Burns, New York, town Allegany County, New York
  - Burns, Oregon, town Harney County, Oregon
  - Burns, Tennessee, town Dickson County, Tennessee
  - Burns, Texas, rural community Bowie County, Texas
  - Burns, Wisconsin, town La Crosse County, Wisconsin
  - Burns, Wyoming, town Laramie County, Wyoming Burns can also refer to people with the surname of Burns:
- Allan Burns, American television writer and producer
- Alexander Burns (1834-?), Canadian educator
- Anthony Burns (1830-1862), fugitive slave
- Arthur F. Burns, Austrian-born economist, U.S. Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1970-1978)
- Britt Burns, pitcher, Major League Baseball 1978-1985, Chicago White Sox
- Brooke Burns, American model and actress, Baywatch, Dog Eat Dog
- Charles Burns (cartoonist), cartoonist and illustrator
- Chris Burns (musician), MC and music producer
- Chris Burns (radio host), radio host in Juneau, Alaska
- Chris Burns (porn star), actor in pornographic films
- Dr. Chris Burns (politician), Australian politician
- Conrad Burns, American politician, Republican U. S. Senator from Montana
- David Burns (actor), Actor and Singer
- Dr. David D. Burns, author
- Eric Burns (journalist), American media critic and journalist, NBC Nightly News and the Today Show
- Eric Burns, critic, writer, poet, columnist and Role Playing Game developer
- E.L.M. Burns, Canadian Army officer and diplomat
- Edward Burns, American actor
- Gene Burns, radio talk show host - KGO 810 AM - San Francisco Bay Area
- George Burns (1896-1996), American actor and comedian, Burns and Allen (Gracie)
- George Burns (shipping magnate) (1795-1890), Scottish shipping magnate
- George Burns (Australian politician) (1869-1932), Australian House of Representatives
- George Burns (first baseman) (1893-1978), American League MLB baseball player
- George Burns (outfielder) (1889-1966), National League MLB baseball player
- Glenn Burns, WSB-TV Atlanta's Chief Meteorologist
- Gordon Burns, British journalist, The Krypton Factor
- Hugh Burns (1846-1911), railroad construction
- Jack Burns, American comedian
- Jake Burns, John 'Jake' Burns, Irish singer, guitarist and musician, Stiff Little Fingers
- James Burns, a Director Emeritus at the Power Corporation of Canada
- James H. Burns (1885-1972), Maj. Gen. U.S. Army, Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of War during World War II - Russian Lend-Lease, Korean War, Division of Defense Aid Reports
- Jerry Burns, football coach Minnesota Vikings
- Joe Burns, National Football League
- John Burns (1858-1943), English trade unionist, anti-racist, socialist and politician
- John A. Burns (1909–1975), Governor of Hawaii 1962-1974
- John F. Burns, British foreign correspondent for The New York Times
- John Burns (comics), British comic artist known for his work on Modesty Blaise and Judge Dredd
- John Burns (Civil War), (1793-1872), soldier, War of 1812, American Civil War
- Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker, Civil War, Baseball, Jazz
- Lucy Burns, American suffragist and women's rights advocate
- M.J. Burns, artist, engraver 1880's, Jeannette Arctic Expedition of 1879-1881
- Marc Burns, Olympic runner, Trinidad and Tobago
- Marge Burns, American professional golfer
- Marilyn Burns (Alberta politician), Canadian politician from Alberta
- Marilyn Burns, American actress, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Matt Burns, British professional wrestler
- Max Burns, American politician, Republican U. S. Representative 2003-2005
- Michael Burns, or Burnie, independent filmmaker
- Mike Burns, MLS professional and U. S. national team soccer player
- Otway Burns (1775-1850), American privateer - War of 1812
- Pat Burns, French Canadian head coach for the NHL New Jersey Devils
- Pete Burns, singer and songwriter, the new wave band Dead Or Alive
- R. Nicholas Burns, Ambassador U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
- Richard Burns, English rally driver
- Simon Burns, British politician
- Steve Burns, rock guitarist
- Tommy Burns (boxer), Boxer, world heavyweight champion 1906–1908
- Tommy Burns (football), soccer player, Celtic F.C., Kilmarnock F.C.
- W. Haydon Burns (1912-1987), 35th governor of Florida
- William J. Burns (1860-1932), director Bureau of Investigation 1921-1924 Fictional people with the surname Burns:
- Frank Burns, M
- A
- S
- H, portrayed by Robert Duvall in the motion picture and Larry Linville in the television show
- Larry Burns, voiced by Rodney Dangerfield
- Charles Montgomery Burns (aka Mr. Burns), a character from the animated series The Simpsons
- Roy Burns, played by Dick Wieand, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning. People with the first or middle name Burns:
- Isaac Burns Murphy, African-American thoroughbred jockey Things which use the name Burns:
- Burns' Day storm, hurricane force winds storm January 25–26, 1990, over Northwestern Europe, named for the birthday or Robert Burns
- The terms "Burns Fellowship" and "Burns Fellow" have several applications around the world:
  - Arthur F. Burns Fellowship, for U. S. journalists with German language skills, organized by the International Center for Journalists
  - Robert Burns Fellowship, University of Otago, New Zealand literary fellowship based in the nation's most Scottish city
  - Vancouver Burns Fellowship, founded in 1924, among its aims erection of statue of Robbie Burns in Stanley Park, Vancouver
- Burns supper, or a Burns Night, celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns
- Sideburns are a kind of facial hair
- Ships of U. S. Navy named Burns or USS Burns the latter for Otway Burns (1775–1850), a privateer in the War of 1812
  - Etta M. Burns (No. 542), auxiliary schooner 1917-1919
  - First USS Burns (DD-171/DM-11) destroyer, 1919-1930
  - Second USS Burns (DD-588) destroyer, 1943-1946
  - W. W. Burns, a wooden-hulled Chesapeake Bay schooner, 1861-? Entities which use the name Burns:
- Burns Protective is a private security company acquired by Securitas AB.
- John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, Hawai'i

See also


- places:
  - Burns Bog, largest raised peat bog in North America, Delta, British Columbia
  - Burns City, Texas, community Cooke County, Texas
  - Burns Flat, Oklahoma, town Washita County, Oklahoma
  - Burns Harbor, Indiana, town Porter County, Indiana
  - Burns Lake, British Columbia, community Regional District of Buckley-Nechako, British Columbia, Canada
  - Burns Road, street in downtown Karachi
  - Burns Township, Michigan, township Shiawassee County, Michigan
  - Burns Township, Minnesota, township Anoka County, Minnesota
  - Burnside
  - Burnsville others:
- burn
- Burnes
- Byrnes
- Bourns

1932

1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on Friday.

Events

January-February


- January 3 - British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel
- January 8 - In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees
- January 12 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate
- January 14 - Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G (Ravel) debuts with piano soloist Marguerite Long and Ravel conducting the Lamoureux Orchestra
- January 15 - Pierre Laval forms a new government in France
- January 15 - About 6 million unemployed in Germany
- January 26 - British submarine M-2 sinks with all 50 hands
- January 28 - Japan occupies Shanghai
- January 29 - Minority government of Karl Mureschi in Austria ends the governmental crisis
- January 31 - Japanese warships arrive in Nanking
- February 2 - General convention of disarmament begins in Geneva
- February 2 - League of Nations again recommends negotiations between the Republic of China and Japan
- February 4 - 1932 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York. Japan occupies Harbin, China
- February 11 - Pope Pius XI meets Benito Mussolini in the Vatican City
- February 18 - Japan declares Manzhouguo (Japanese name for Manchuria) formally independent from China
- February 27 - Adolf Hitler gains German citizenship prior to elections
- February 27 - Mäntsälä Rebellion in Finland

March-April


- March 1 - Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, the baby son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped
- March 9 - Eamon de Valera is elected President of the Executive Council. It is the first change of government in the Irish Free State in 10 years.
- March 18 - Peace negotiations between China and Japan begin.
- March 19 - Sydney Harbour Bridge opens
- March 20 - Graf Zeppelin begins a regular route to South America
- March 25 - Tarzan the Ape Man opens, with Olympic gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in the title role. Weismuller starred in a total of 12 Tarzan films.
- April 5 - Prohibition is lifted in Finland at 10 in the morning (local time), inventing a new mnemonic "543210".
- April 6 - U.S. president Herbert Hoover supports armament limitations
- April 6 - Trial against fraudulent art dealer Otto Wacker begins in Berlin
- April 10 - Paul von Hindenburg elected president of Germany. Adolf Hitler receives over 13 million votes.
- April 17 - Haile Selassie announces an anti-slavery law in Abyssinia
- April 19 - German art dealer Otto Wacker is sentenced for 19 months for selling fraudulent paintings of Vincent van Gogh

May-June


- May 2 - Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time.
- May 6 - Paul Gorguloff assassinates French president Paul Doumer in Paris - Doumer dies the next day.
- May 10 - Albert Lebrun becomes the new president of France
- May 12 - Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey just a few miles from the Lindbergh's home.
- May 13 - The Premier of New South Wales, Jack Lang, is dismissed by the State Governor, Sir Phillip Game
- May 15 - Japanese troops leave Shanghai; May 15 Incident, the assassination of Japanese prime minister Tsuyoshi Inukai, occurs.
- May 16 - Massive riots between Hindus and Muslims in Bombay - thousands dead and injured.
- May 20-21 - Amelia Earhart flies from USA to Londonderry, Northern Ireland in 14 hours 54 minutes
- May 30 - German chancellor Heinrich Brüning resigns. President Hindenburg takes Franz von Papen to form a new government.
- June - 15,000 World War I veterans march in Washington, DC
- June 4 - Military coup in Chile
- June 6 - The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States at 1 cent per US gallon (0.26 ¢/L) sold.
- June 14 - Bans against SS and SA overturned in Germany
- June 20 - Benelux customs union negotiated
- June 24 - After a relatively bloodless military rebellion, Siam becomes a constitutional monarchy

July-October


- July 1- ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) established
- July 5 - António de Oliveira Salazar becomes the fascists prime minister of Portugal (for the next 36 years)
- July 7 - French submarine Sromethee sinks off Cherbourg - 66 dead
- July 12 - Hedley Verity establishes a new first-class record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
- July 17 - Bloody Sunday of Altona in Germany - armed communists attack a national socialist demonstration - 18 dead. Many other political street fights follow.
- July 28 - US President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, DC. US troops dispersed the last of the "Bonus Army" the next day.
- July 30 - 1932 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles.
- August 6 - First Venice Film Festival
- August 10 - A 5.1 kg chondrite type meteorite broke into at least seven fragments and struck earth near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
- August 18 - Auguste Piccard reaches altitude of 16.500 meters with an air balloon
- August 30 - Hermann Göring elected as a chairman of German senate
- August 31 - Total solar eclipse visible from northern Canada through NE Vermont, New Hampshire, SW Maine, and the Capes of Massachusetts
- September 9 - The Generalitat reinstaurated, Catalonia regains political autonomy inside the 2nd Spanish Republic from September 25
- September 18 - Actress Peg Entwhistle commits suicide jumping from the letter H of the (then) Hollywoodland sign
- September 20 - Mohandas Gandhi begins an hunger strike in Poona prison
- September 28 - According to Prussian statistics, 115 people have been killed in political riots during the year
- October 15 - Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight
- October 19 - Wedding of Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

November-December


- November 1 - San Francisco Opera House opened
- November 7 - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on radio for the first time.
- November 8 - U.S. presidential election, 1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.
- November 9 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland - 12 dead, 60 injured
- November 11 - Tornado and huge waves kills about thousand in Santa Crus del Sure in Cuba
- November 19 - Second wife of Josef Stalin is found dead in her home
- November 21 - German president Hindenburg begins negotiations with Adolf Hitler about the formation of a new government
- November 24 - In Washington, DC, the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
- December 3 - Hindenburg names Kurt von Schleicher as a German chancellor
- December 12 - Japan and Soviet Union reform their diplomatic connections
- December 25 - Earthquake in the Kansu Province in China - 70,000 dead

Unknown dates


- Saudi Arabia is declared a unified nation with Ibn Saud as a king.
- Female suffrage in Brazil
- Norway annexes northern Greenland.
- Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay
- In the next five years, Dr. Morris Bolber and associates successfully murder and collect the insurance money for more than 30 victims.
- Mars candy bar
- Zippo lighters
- Zero-length springs invented, revolutionizing seismometers and gravimeters
- The Kennedy-Thorndike experiment shows that measured time as well as length are affected by motion, in accordance with the theory of special relativity.
- Chadwick discovers the neutron.
- Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane publishes The Causes of Evolution and thereby unifies the findings of Mendelian genetics with those of evolutionary science.
- Second Polar Year, an international scientific collaboration.
- Kreuger & Toll of the "Match King" Ivar Kreuger collapses - he commits suicide.
- Republican Citizens Committee Against National Prohibition established for repeal of prohibition in U.S.

Births

January


- January 3 - Dabney Coleman, American actor
- January 3 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (d. 2005)
- January 5 - Johnny Adams, American musician (d. 1998)
- January 5 - Umberto Eco, Italian scholar and author
- January 6 - Stuart A. Rice, American chemist
- January 16 - Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)
- January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author
- January 22 - Piper Laurie, American actress
- January 26 - Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer (d. 2004)
- January 29 - Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958)
- January 30 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician

February-March


- February 3 - Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (d. 1984)
- February 6 - François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
- February 7 - Gay Talese, American author
- February 8 - John Williams, American composer and conductor
- February 9 - Gerhard Richter, German painter
- February 11 - Jerome Lowenthal, American pianist
- February 12 - Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (d. 1998)
- February 14 - Alexander Kluge, German author and film director
- February 16 - Harry Goz, American actor (d. 2003)
- February 18 - Milos Forman, Czech film director
- February 22 - Edward Kennedy, American politician
- February 23 - Majel Barrett, American actress
- February 24 - Michel Legrand, French composer
- February 25 - Faron Young American singer (d. 1996)
- February 26 - Johnny Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
- February 27 - Elizabeth Taylor, English-born actress
- March 4 - Miriam Makeba, South African singer
- March 12 - Andrew Young, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
- March 16 - Don Blasingame, Major League Baseball player and Japanese baseball manager (d. 2005)
- March 18 - John Updike, American author
- March 21 - Walter Gilbert, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 30 - Ted Morgan, French-born author, biographer, and journalist

April-July


- April 1 - Gordon Jump, American television actor (d. 2003)
- April 1 - Debbie Reynolds, American actress
- April 2 - Michael Vernon, Australian consumer activist (d.1993)
- April 4 - Anthony Perkins, American actor (d. 1992)
- April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director (d. 1986)
- April 8 - Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail, King of Malaysia
- April 9 - Carl Perkins, American musician (d. 1998)
- April 12 - Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician (assassinated) (d. 2005)
- April 12 - Tiny Tim, American musician (d. 1996)
- April 23 - Halston, American fashion designer (d. 1990)
- April 26 - Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
- April 27 - Casey Kasem, American disc jockey and voice actor
- April 27 - Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
- May 8 - Phyllida Law, Scottish actress
- May 8 - Sonny Liston, American boxer (d. 1970)
- May 25 - John Gregory Dunne, American writer (d. 2003)
- June 4 - John Drew Barrymore, American actor (d. 2004)
- June 4 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (d. 2004)
- June 12 - Rona Jaffe, American novelist
- June 18 - Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 18 - Geoffrey Hill, English poet
- June 25 - Peter Blake, English artist
- June 27 - Anna Moffo, American soprano
- June 28 - Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
- July 2 - Dave Thomas, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 2002)
- July 9 - Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense
- July 12 - Otis Davis, American runner
- July 21 - Ernie Warlick, American football player
- July 29 - Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, U.S. Senator

August-December


- August 1 - Meena Kumari, Indian actress
- August 2 - Lamar Hunt, American sportsman
- August 2 - Peter O'Toole, Irish-born actor
- August 6 - Howard Hodgkin, British painter and print-maker
- August 11 - Fernando Arrabal, Moroccan-born writer
- August 17 - V. S. Naipaul, West Indian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 18 - William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
- September 4 - Dinsdale Landen, British actor (d. 2003)
- September 7 - Paul Getty, American-born philanthropist (d. 2003)
- September 8 - Patsy Cline, American singer (d. 1963)
- September 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (d. 2002)
- September 22 - Algirdas Brazauskas, President of Lithuania
- September 25 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (d. 1982)
- September 26 - Richard Herd, American actor
- September 26 - Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
- September 27 - Oliver E. Williamson , American economist
- September 30 - Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician
- October 19 - Robert Reed, American actor (d. 1992)
- October 20 - Rosey Brown, American football playerr (d. 2004)
- October 24 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 24 - Robert Mundell, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 28 - Suzy Parker, American actress (d. 2003)
- November 3 - Albert Reynolds, President of Ireland
- November 4 - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
- November 4 - Noam Pitlik, American actor and director (d. 1999)
- November 15 - Petula Clark, British singer, actress, and songwriter
- November 20 - Richard Dawson, British-born game show host
- November 29 - Jacques Chirac, President of France
- December 2 - Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (d. 1990)
- December 5 - Sheldon Lee Glashow, American physicist
- December 9 - Bill Hartack, American jockey
- December 24 - Earl Dodge, American temperance movement leader
- December 28 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (d. 2002)
- December 28 - Dorsey Burnette, American singer (d. 1979)
- December 28 - Roy Hattersley, British politician

Unknown dates


- Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)
- Irene Jai Narayan, Fiji politician
- Blaze Starr, American dancer

Deaths


- January 21 - Giles Lytton Strachey British writer and biographer (b. 1880)
- January 24 - Sir Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder and philanthropist (b. 1842)
- February 10 - Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
- February 16 - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1841)
- March 1 - Frank Teschemacher, American musician (b. 1906)
- March 6 - John Philip Sousa, American band leader, conductor, and composer (b. 1854)
- March 7 - Aristide Briand, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
- March 14 - George Eastman, American inventor (b. 1854)
- March 31 - Eben Byers, American steel tycoon and socialite (radiation poisoning) (b. 1880)
- April 4 - Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
- April 20 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858)
- April 26 - Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
- April 26 - William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
- May 3 - Charles Fort, American researcher of the unusual (b. 1874)
- May 7 - Paul Doumer, President of France (assassinated) (b. 1857)
- May 15 - Tsuyoshi Inukai, Prime Minister of Japan (assassinated) (b. 1855)
- May 17 - Frederick C. Billard, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard (b. 1873)
- June 21 - Major Taylor, American cyclist (b. 1878)
- July 6 - Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859)
- July 23 - Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer (b. 1873)
- September 16 - Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
- September 20 - Wovoka, Paiute visionary
- September 23 - Jules Chéret, French poster designer (b. 1836)
- December 19 - Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean resister against Japanese occupation of Korea (executed) (b. 1908)

Unknown date


- Lucy Bacon, American painter

Nobel Prizes


- Physics - Werner Karl Heisenberg
- Chemistry - Irving Langmuir
- Physiology or Medicine - Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Edgar Douglas Adrian
- Literature - John Galsworthy
- Peace - not awarded Category:1932 ko:1932년 ms:1932 ja:1932年 simple:1932 th:พ.ศ. 2475

August 22

August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining.

Events


- 1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the Wars of the Roses
- 1559 - Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy
- 1642 - Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War
- 1654 - Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first Jewish immigrant to what is later the United States
- 1717 - Spanish troops land on Sardinia
- 1770 - James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia
- 1775 - King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion
- 1780 - James Cook's ship Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage)
- 1791 - Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue
- 1798 - French troops land in County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion
- 1846 - The United States annexes New Mexico
- 1851 - Gold is discovered in Australia
- 1851 - The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
- 1875 - The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
- 1864 - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
- 1901 - Cadillac Motor Company founded
- 1902 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile
- 1910 - Japan annexes Korea with the signing of the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty. The name Korea was abolished and replaced with the ancient name Joseon.
- 1911 - Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered
- 1914 - World War I: In Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
- 1922 - Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
- 1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
- 1941 - World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad
- 1942 - World War II: Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan)
- 1944 - World War II: Last transport of French Jews to concentration camps in Germany
- 1944 - World War II: Thirty-two Spaniards & four French Maquis tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110 Germans killed and 200 wounded.
- 1950 - Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis
- 1953 - The jail on Devil's Island is closed
- 1962 - An attempt to assassinate French president Charles De Gaulle fails
- 1962 - The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered ship, completes its maiden voyage
- 1968 - Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America
- 1972 - Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies
- 1988 - The Australian koala, the first platinum coin, is issued
- 1989 - The first ring of Neptune is discovered
- 1989 - Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first major league baseball pitcher to record 5000 strikeouts.
- 1992 - FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
- 2001 - the Trojan room coffee pot is switched off for the last time.
- 2004 - The Scream, the painting by Edvard Munch, is stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

Births


- 1601 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667)
- 1624 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
- 1647 - Denis Papin, French physicist, mathematician, and inventor
- 1679 - Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
- 1760 - Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
- 1764 - Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838)
- 1771 - Henry Maudslay, English inventor and tool-maker (d. 1831)
- 1800 - William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889)
- 1802 - Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, American land speculator (d. 1886)
- 1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, inventor, aviation pioneer (d. 1906)
- 1854 - King Milan I of Serbia (d. 1901)
- 1860 - Paul Nipkow, German inventor and television pioneer (d. 1940)
- 1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
- 1867 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
- 1873 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928)
- 1874 - Max Scheler, German philosopher (d. 1928)
- 1880 - George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
- 1893 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967)
- 1900 - Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
- 1902 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
- 1904 - Deng Xiaoping, leader of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
- 1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
- 1915 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
- 1915 - Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (d. 2005)
- 1917 - John Lee Hooker, American guitarist and singer (d. 2001)
- 1920 - Ray Bradbury, American writer
- 1920 - Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon
- 1928 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer
- 1930 - Gilmar, Brazilian football player
- 1934 - Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. general
- 1935 - E. Annie Proulx, American author
- 1938 - Paul Maguire, American football player
- 1939 - George Reinholt, American actor
- 1939 - Carl Yastrzemski, baseball player
- 1940 - Valerie Harper, American actress
- 1941 - Bill Parcells, American football coach
- 1942 - Kathy Lennon, American singer (The Lennon Sisters)
- 1947 - Cindy Williams, American actress
- 1955 - Will Shetterly, writer
- 1956 - Paul Molitor, baseball player
- 1957 - Steve Davis, English snooker player
- 1958 - Colm Feore, American-born actor
- 1958 - Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour)
- 1961 - Roland Orzabal, singer and guitarist (Tears for Fears)
- 1963 - Tori Amos, American singer, songwriter, and pianist
- 1964 - Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player
- 1966 - GZA, American rapper
- 1967 - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002)
- 1970 - Charlie Connelly, English writer
- 1973 - Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
- 1977 - Heidar Helguson, Icelandic footballer

Deaths


- 408 - Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359)
- 1155 - Emperor Konoe of Japan (b. 1139)
- 1188 - King Ferdinand II of Leon
- 1241 - Pope Gregory IX
- 1280 - Pope Nicholas III
- 1286 - Erik V Klipping, King of Denmark (murdered) (b. 1249)
- 1304 - John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247)
- 1350 - King Philip VI of France (b. 1293)
- 1485 - King Richard III of England (killed in battle) (b. 1452)
- 1553 - John Dudley, English admiral and politician (beheaded) (b. 1501)
- 1584 - Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530)
- 1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman who conspired to murder her father (b. 1577)
- 1599 - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer
- 1607 - Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)
- 1609 - Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
- 1652 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583)
- 1680 - John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
- 1701 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)
- 1711 - Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)
- 1752 - William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)
- 1793 - Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (b. 1713)
- 1797 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)
- 1806 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)
- 1818 - Warren Hastings, British Governor-General of India (b. 1732)
- 1823 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (b. 1753)
- 1828 - Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist (b. 1758)
- 1850 - Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (b. 1802)
- 1861 - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)
- 1891 - Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
- 1903 - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
- 1904 - Kate Chopin, American author (b. 1851)
- 1918 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
- 1922 - Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary (ambushed) (b. 1890)
- 1926 - Charles W. Eliot, American President of Harvard University (b. 1834)
- 1942 - Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (b. 1880)
- 1953 - Jim Tabor, baseball player (b. 1916)
- 1958 - Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
- 1976 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (b. 1902)
- 1977 - Sebastian Cabot, English-born actor (b. 1918)
- 1978 - Jomo Kenyatta, first Prime Minister of Kenya
- 1989 - Huey P. Newton, American activist (b. 1942)
- 1991 - Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (b. 1924)
- 2003 - Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss-born figure skating trainer (b. 1914)
- 2004 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
- 2005 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)

Holidays and observances


- RC feasts - Mary queen of angels

External links


- [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/22 BBC: On This Day] ---- August 21 - August 23 - July 22 - September 22 -- listing of all days ko:8월 22일 ms:22 Ogos ja:8月22日 simple:August 22 th:22 สิงหาคม

1921

1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).

Events


- January 1 - In American football, California defeats Ohio State 28-0 in the Rose Bowl.
- January 2 - The first religious radio broadcast (KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
- January 2 - Spanish liner Santa Isabel sinks off Villa Garcia - 244 dead
- January 2 - DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park San Francisco opens.
- January 20 - Royal Navy K-boat K5 sinks in the English Channel with all 56 hands
- February 25 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
- February 27 - The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is formed in Vienna
- February 28 - Russian sailors rebel in Kronstadt - On March 17 the Red Army crushes the rebellion and number of sailors flee to Finland
- March 1 - The city Kiryu, located in Gunma, Japan, is founded.
- March 6 - The Portuguese Communist Party is founded.
- March 8 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
- March 13 - Mongolia declares its independence from China
- March 17 - Marie Stopes opens the first birth control clinic in London, England. The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
- March 18 - The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union ending Polish-Soviet war. Despite the recent Polish successes, Soviets annex Ukraine and Belarus.
- April 11 - The Emirate of Transjordan is created, with Abdullah I as emir.
- April 14 - In Britain, labour unions for mining, railway and transportation workers call for a strike - government threatens to call in the army
- April 24 - Referendum in Tyrol supports joining to Germany
- May 1-May 7 - Riots in Palestine of May, 1921
- 2 May-5 July - Third Silesian Uprising, the Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans
- May 5 - Only 13 spectators attend the soccer match between Leicester City and Stockport County, the lowest attendance in The Football League's history.
- May 6 - General strike begins in Norway
- May 8 - Death penalty abolished in Sweden
- May 14 - May 17 - Violent anti-European riots in Cairo and Alexandria
- May 19 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the U.S. Congress establishing national quotas on immigration.
- May 31 - Race riots in Tulsa, Oklahoma
- May 24 - Elections are held for the first time for the new Northern Ireland Parliament.
- June 1 - Tulsa Race Riot of 1921: A race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma kills 85 people.
- June 26 - In Britain, rain ends 100 days of drought
- July 1 - Coal strike ends in England
- July 11 - The Irish War of Independence comes to an end when a truce is signed between the British Government and the Irish forces.
- July 11 - Mongolia becomes independent of China
- July 14 - A Massachusetts jury finds Nichola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti guilty of first degree murder following a widely-publicized trial.
- July 18 - The first BCG vaccination against tuberculosis
- July 22 - Irish Truce declared in Britain
- July 26 - US President Warren G. Harding receives Princess Fatima of Afghanistan - and Stanley Clifford Weyman...
- July 29 - Adolf Hitler becomes Chairman of the Nazi Party
- July 27 - Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.
- August - The United States formally ends World War I, declaring a peace with Germany
- August 5 - First radio broadcast of baseball game; Harold Arlin announced Pirates-Phillies game from Forbes Field over Westinghouse KDKA Pittsburgh
- August 11 - 35 degree Celsius in Breslau - heat wave continues elsewhere in Europe as well
- August 23 - King Faisal is crowned in Baghdad
- August 24 - Airship ZR 2 explodes during a test flight near Hull, England - 41 dead
- August 26 - Rising prices cause riots in Munich
- August 29 - Assassination of German politician Matthias Erzberger causes the government to declare martial law
- September 1 - Poplar Strike in London - 9 members of Poplar borough council are arrested
- September 7 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant is held.
- September 8 - 16-year-old Margaret Gorman won the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
- September 12 - Lotta Svärd founded in Finland.
- September 21 - Oppau explosion happened at BASF's nitrate factory in Oppau, Germany - 500—600 dead.
- October 10 - Teaching at the University of Szeged started in Hungary.
- October 21 - Peace conference between Irish and United Kingdom begins in London.
- October 24 - Spanish army defeats rifkabyls.
- October 29 - Construction of the Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project completed.
- November 9 - Riots in Reykjavík - most of the small police force is injured.
- November 11 - During an Armistice Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, the Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding.
- December 1 - Rising prices cause riots in Vienna.
- December 16 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State is signed in London. See Ireland/History.
- December 13 - In the Four Power Treaty on Insular Possessions Japan, the United States, United Kingdom, and France agree to recognize the status quo in the Pacific.
- December 29 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Canada's tenth prime minister.
- Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to enter Canadian parliament
- Change of US presidency from Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) to Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
- Invention of the vibraphone.
- Abkhazia becomes an autonomous republic within the Soviet Union.

Fictitious Events

1921 is a song on the album Tommy by The Who.

Births

Date unknown


- Norma Macmillan, voice actress (d. 2001)

January


- January 5 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)
- January 5 - Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- January 10 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d. 2004)
- January 19 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
- January 27 - Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)
- January 31 - Carol Channing, American actress
- January 31 - Mario Lanza, American tenor (d. 1959)

February


- February 4 - Betty Friedan, American feminist
- February 4 - K. R. Narayanan, President of India (d. 2005)
- February 5 - John Pritchard, English conductor (d. 1989)
- February 11 - Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (d. 1996)
- February 11 - Lloyd Bentsen, American politician
- February 14 - Hugh Downs, American game show host and journalist
- February 22 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
- February 25 - Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (assassinated) (d. 1970)

March


- March 1 - Jack Clayton, British film director
- March 1 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (d. 1983)
- March 1 - Richard Wilbur, American poet
- March 2 - Robert Simpson, English composer (d. 1997)
- March 3 - Paul Guimard, French writer (d. 2004)
- March 5 - Elmer Valo, Czech Major League Baseball player (d. 1998)
- March 8 - Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer
- March 11 - Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005)
- March 12 - Giovanni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (d. 2003)
- March 12 - Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (d. 1986)
- March 13 - Al Jaffee, American cartoonist
- March 13 - Cyril Poole, English cricketer (d. 1996)
- March 20 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer (d. 1973)
- March 21 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (d. 1986)
- March 25 - Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
- March 28 - Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)

April-May


- April 1 - Beau Jack, American boxer (d. 2000)
- April 8 - Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (d. 2003)
- April 10 - Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (d. 2003)
- April 14 - Thomas Schelling, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- April 15 - Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1995)
- April 16 - Peter Ustinov, English actor and director (d. 2004)
- April 23 - Warren Spahn, baseball player (d. 2003)
- May 2 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (d. 1992)
- May 5 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- May 6 - Erich Fried, Austrian author (d. 1988)
- May 9 - Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
- May 9 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)
- May 11 - Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician
- May 12 - Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986)
- May 12 - Farley Mowat, Canadian writer and naturalist
- May 17 - Dennis Brain, English French horn player (d. 1957)
- May 18 - Sir Michael Epstein, British medical researcher
- May 19 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999)
- May 20 - Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (d. 1947)
- May 20 - Hal Newhouser, baseball player (d. 1998)
- May 21 - Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (declined) (d. 1989)
- May 23 - James Blish, American science fiction author (d. 1975)
- May 25 - Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- May 25 - James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher
- May 26 - Stan Mortensen, English footballer (d. 1991)
- May 28 - Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)

June-August


- June 1 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (d. 1985)
- June 8 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d. 1993)
- June 10 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- June 15 - Errol Garner, American jazz musician (d. 1977)
- June 25 - Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer
- June 26 - Violette Szabo, French World War II heroine (d. 1945)
- June 28 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
- July 4 - Gerard Debreu, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
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