( Rossum's Universal Robots ) ( 1921 ) – the play that introduced the word robot to the world – were organic artificial humans, the word " robot " has come to primarily refer to mechanical humans, animals, and other beings.

* 1921 – Robert Cliche, Canadian politician and magistrate ( d. 1978 )

* 1921 – Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.

* 1921 – Tove Maës, Danish actress ( d. 2011 )

* 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali ( leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire ) as King Faisal I of Iraq.

* 1921 – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg ( d. 1996 )

* 1921 – Leo Penn, American director ( d. 1998 )

* 1921 – Ernest Angley, American evangelist and broadcaster

* 1921 – J. James Exon, American politician ( d. 2005 )

They won the first eight matches in succession including a 5 – 0 whitewash in 1920 – 1921 at the hands of Warwick Armstrong's team.

* 2008 – Jake Warren, Canadian diplomat ( b. 1921 )

* 2012 – N. K. P. Salve, Indian politician ( b. 1921 )

The most important Canadian theorist was an American immigrant, Henry Wise Wood, president of the United Farmers of Alberta ( UFA ) during that movement's time as the governing party of the province ( 1921 – 1935 ).

* 1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player ( d. 2009 )

* 1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.

* 1921 – Marilyn Maxwell, American actress ( d. 1972 )

* 1921 – Richard Adler, American songwriter and composer ( d. 2012 )

* 1921 – Hayden Carruth, American poet and critic ( d. 2008 )

* 1999 – Byron Farwell, American historian ( b. 1921 )

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

Former German military organisations have been the old German state armies, the Reichswehr ( 1921 – 1935 ) and the Wehrmacht ( 1935 – 1945 ).

Former President William Howard Taft was a professor of constitutional law at Yale Law School from 1913 until he resigned to become Chief Justice of the United States in 1921.

* Ajax ( 1921 automobile ), prototype, U. S.

#** Charles Joseph Bonaparte ( 1851 – 1921 ), U. S. Attorney General married Ellen Channing Day

In fiction, the idea dates back at least as far as Karel &# 268 ; apek's 1921 play R. U. R.

Some of this gas was used in the world's first helium-filled airship, the U. S. Navy's C-7, which flew its maiden voyage from Hampton Roads, Virginia, to Bolling Field in Washington, D. C., on December 1, 1921.

* 1921 – U. S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.

He also took part in the mass education movement to fight illiteracy, founded in 1921 by members of the Chinese Young Men's Christian Association with U. S. backing.

He served in the Ohio Senate ( 1899 – 1903 ), as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio ( 1904 – 1906 ) and as a U. S. Senator ( 1915 – 1921 ).

He also strongly promoted world Naval disarmament at the 1921 – 1922 Washington Naval Conference, and urged U. S. participation in a proposed International Court.

From 1921 to 1923, the federal government spent $ 162 million on America's highway system, infusing the U. S. economy with a large amount of capital.

This was known as the Knox – Porter Resolution ; subsequent Peace treaties were signed with both countries and Ratified by the Senate and signed by Harding on July 21, 1921 ; that officially ended World War I for the U. S. The Senate had refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles in both 1919 and 1920 because it required the U. S. to endorse the League of Nations.

The Per Centum Act of 1921 signed by President Harding on May 19, 1921 severely reduced the amount of immigration into the U. S. to 3 % of a country's represented population based on the 1910 census.

On November 21, 1921, President Harding signed the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act, the first major federal government social welfare program in the U. S. The law funded almost 3, 000 child and health centers throughout the U. S. Medical doctors were spurred to offer preventative health care measures in addition to treating ill children.

* December 28 – Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, second wife of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson, was First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921.

* July 28 – William Whittingham Lyman, U. S. vintner ( d. 1921 )

Margaret Thaler Singer ( 1921 – 2003 ) was a clinical psychologist and a part-time Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, U. S.

There is a stone monument with a bronze plaque at the Hürtgen military cemetery dedicated by veterans of the U. S. 4th Infantry Division to the memory of Friedrich Lengfeld ( 29 September 1921 – 12 November 1944 ), a German lieutenant.

The U. S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act in 1921, followed by the Immigration Act of 1924.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Bradley, Will: Moongold: A Pierrot Pantomime ( 1921 ); Browning, Tod: Puppets ( 1916 ); Cukor, George: Sylvia Scarlett ( 1935 ; features performing foursome called The Pink Pierrots ); Lund, Oscar A. C .: When Pierrot Met Pierrette ( 1913 ).

# The Twenty-seventh Amendment's more than 202 year ratification period set a standard of " sufficiently contemporaneous "— a term used during the U. S. Supreme Court's 1921 ruling in Dillon v. Gloss — giving Congress the power to set time limits on constitutional amendments.

* William M. Ketchum ( 1921 – 1978 ), U. S. Representative