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===Business===
===Business===
* The [[Birmingham Railway, Light and Power Company]] reorganized as the [[Birmingham Electric Company]].
* [[Edmund Leach]] opened a [[Sterne Agee]] office in Montgomery.
* [[U.S. Pipe]] switched its casting to the [[DeLavaud process]].
* The [[Alabama Coal Operators Association]] was reorganized as the [[Alabama Mining Institute]].
* Ore mining resumed at [[Valley View Mine]].
===Establishments===
* January: The ''[[Birmingham Post]]'' was launched by [[Ed Leech]] and Scripps-Howard.
* January: The ''[[Birmingham Post]]'' was launched by [[Ed Leech]] and Scripps-Howard.
* [[April 24]]: [[WSY-AM]] began broadcasting from a studio at 1921 [[Powell Avenue]].
* [[April 24]]: [[WSY-AM]] began broadcasting from a studio at 1921 [[Powell Avenue]].
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* The [[Frolic Theatre]] opened on [[4th Avenue North]].
* The [[Frolic Theatre]] opened on [[4th Avenue North]].
* The [[Gay Theater]] opened on [[4th Avenue North]].
* The [[Gay Theater]] opened on [[4th Avenue North]].
* The [[Birmingham Railway, Light and Power Company]] reorganized as the [[Birmingham Electric Company]].
* [[George Barber]] founded [[Barber's Dairy]].
* [[George Barber]] founded [[Barber's Dairy]].
* [[William Hoover]] founded the [[Employers Mutual Insurance Company]].
* [[William Hoover]] founded the [[Employers Mutual Insurance Company]].
* [[Norton's Florist]] opened.
* [[Norton's Florist]] opened.
* [[Dixie Store Fixtures]] was founded.
* [[Dixie Store Fixtures]] was founded.
* [[E. E. Essig]] founded the [[Banner Baking Co.]]
* [[Mabe Power Equipment]] opened.
* [[Mabe Power Equipment]] opened.
* [[E. E. Essig]] founded the [[Banner Baking Co.]]
* [[Edmund Leach]] opened a [[Sterne Agee]] office in Montgomery.
* The [[Jefferson County Truck Growers Association]] was founded.
* The [[Jefferson County Truck Growers Association]] was founded.
* [[Thomas Brasfield]] founded the [[Brasfield & Gorrie|Thomas C. Brasfield Company]].
* [[E. L. Higdon]] founded the [[E. L. Higdon Concrete Company]].
* [[U.S. Pipe]] switched its casting to the [[DeLavaud process]].
* [[Kirkman O'Neal]] founded [[O'Neal Industries|Southern Steel Works]].
* Contractor [[Thomas Brasfield]] founded the [[Brasfield & Gorrie|Thomas C. Brasfield Company]].
* [[James McWane]] left the [[American Cast Iron Pipe Company]] to found [[McWane Inc.]]
* [[James McWane]] left the [[American Cast Iron Pipe Company]] to found [[McWane Inc.]]
* [[Kirkman O'Neal]] founded [[O'Neal Industries|Southern Steel Works]].
* [[A. N. Chappell|A. N.]] and [[S. M. Chappell]] founded [[ANCCO]], a maker of food products which soon became [[Bama Company]].
* The [[Alabama Coal Operators Association]] was reorganized as the [[Alabama Mining Institute]].
* [[E. L. Higdon]] founded the [[E. L. Higdon Concrete Company]].
* Ore mining resumed at [[Valley View Mine]].


====Disestablishments====
====Disestablishments====

Revision as of 10:53, 4 August 2021

The Semicentennial of Birmingham was celebrated in 1921.

1921 was the 50th year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.

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  • William Rushton Jr earned his bachelor's degree at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

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Context

In 1921 Swedish women gained the right to vote. Bolshevist forces invaded the Democratic Republic of Georgia. Warren Harding was inaugurated as President of the United States. The Emirate of Transjordan was founded. The Irish Free State gained independence and Northern Ireland was carved out as a province of the United Kingdom. Norway experienced a general strike. Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted of murder in Massachusetts. Communist Parties were chartered in China, Spain and Czechoslovakia. Adolf Hitler became "Führer" of Germany's Nazi party. The United States declared an end to its participation in the Great War (WWI). The first "Miss America" pageant was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The first White Castle hamburger stand opened in Kansas. KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh pioneered radio broadcasting of baseball games. Albert Einstein was awarded a Nobel Prize for physics. More than five million people starved to death during a famine in Russia.

Notable literary works of 1921 included F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned, Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow; two books of Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, Rafael Sabatini's Scaramouche and Eugene Winter's The Byzantine Riddle and Other Stories. Notable films of 1921 included Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid," "Brewster's Millions" with Fatty Arbuckle, and "The Sheik" starring Rudolph Valentino.

The New York Giants claimed the World Series title over the New York Yankees. The Yankees' Babe Ruth set a season record with 59 home runs. Jack Dempsey knocked out Georges Carpentier in front of 80,000 fans at a farm in Jersey City. Belgian Léon Scieur won the 15th Tour de France.

People born in 1921 included actors Steve Allen, Charles Bronson, Carol Channing, Chuck Connors, Rodney Dangerfield; Alan Hale Jr, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Jane Russell, Lana Turner, Abe Vigoda ; dancer Cyd Charisse; feminist Betty Friedan; newscaster Hugh Downs; Senators Jesse Helms and John Glenn; television producer Gene Roddenberry; cartoonist Al Jaffee; author Alex Haley; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; King Faud of Saudi Arabia; physicist Andrei Sakharov; First Lady Nancy Reagan; boxer Sugar Ray Robinson; artist Joseph Beuys; and bandleader Nelson Riddle.

1921 deaths included King Ludwig III of Bavaria; anarchist Peter Kropotkin; gunfighter Bat Masterson; naturalist John Burroughs; tenor Enrico Caruso; and composers Engelbert Humperdinck and Camille Saint-Saëns.


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