1921 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1921 in the United Kingdom.

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2 Births
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January 3 - The airships R.36 and R.37 are completed.
January 14 - Unemployment stands at 927,000.
January 20 - The Royal Navy submarine K.5 sinks in the English Channel with the loss of 56 lives.
January 26 - Seventeen people are killed when two passenger trains collide in Montgomeryshire.
February 12 - Winston Churchill is appointed Colonial Secretary.
February 16 - Unemployment now stands at over one million. The Government announces an increase in unemployment benefit.
March 11 - Queen Mary becomes the first woman to be awarded an (honorary) degree by Oxford University.
March 16 - The United Kingdom signs a trade agreement with the Russian SFSR.
March 17 - Andrew Bonar Law, the Conservative leader, resigns due to ill-health.
March 17 - Dr Marie Stopes opens the United Kingdom's first birth control clinic in Holloway, London.
March 21 - Austen Chamberlain replaces Bonar Law as Conservative leader.
March 26 - Shaun Spadah wins the Grand National.
March 31 - A state of emergency is declared after another coal strike is called.
April 3 - Coal rationing begins.
April 13 - Lloyds Bank takes over Fox, Fowler and Co, the last provincial English bank to issue its own banknotes.
April 15 - The national strike, due to be declared by the 'Triple Alliance', is called off.
April 23 - Tottenham Hotspur beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 in the FA Cup Final.
April 26 - Police patrol London on motorcycles for the first time.
May 4 - The IRA kill a former RIC inspector in Glasgow.
May 7 - Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan arrives on an official visit.
May 10 - Ivy Williams becomes the first woman to become a member of the English Bar.^[1]
May 22 - The USA beats the United Kingdom 9 rounds to 3 in the first golf international between the two countries.
May 24 - In general elections for the new Northern Ireland Parliament, Ulster Unionists win 40 out of 52 seats. One-party rule will last for fifty years.
June 1 - Humorist wins the Derby. For the first time the result is broadcast live by wireless.
June 6 - King George V opens Southwark Bridge in London.
June 7 - The new Northern Ireland Parliament assembles.
June 10 - Unemployment reaches 2.2 million.
June 12 - Sunday postal collection and delivery ends.
June 15 - Two million workers are currently involved in pay disputes.
June 22 - King George V opens the first Northern Ireland Parliament.
June 24 - The world's largest airship, the R.38, makes its maiden flight at Bedford.
June 25 - Rainfall ends a 100-day drought.
June 28 - The coal strike ends.
July 2 - Bill Tilden and Suzanne Lenglen retain their Wimbledon titles.
July 7 - General Jan Smuts meets King George V to discuss the Irish situation.
July 12 - Sinn Féin representatives arrive in London for talks.
July 18 - Ulster Unionist negotiators walk out of the truce talks in London.
August 19 - Unemployment falls to 1,640,600.
August 24 - The airship ZR II explodes at Hull, killing 43 people.
August 30 - England beat Australia, for the first time this year, in the final Test Match.
September 9 - Charlie Chaplin visits London and is met by thousands.
September 23 - The second female MP enters Parliament.
October 8 - The steamer Rowan sinks off the coast of Scotland. 36 people lose their lives.
October 11 - The Irish Treaty Conference opens in London.
November 21 - Troops are sent to restore order after rioting breaks out in East Belfast.
November 22 - At least ten people die in widespread shootings in Belfast.
November 30 - Sir Basil Thompson retires after forty years as the head of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch.
December 7 - British and Irish negotiators sign an agreement giving independence to the Irish Free State.
December 16 - Parliament ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty.