Events January January 2 The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in Brazil. The Spanish liner Santa Isabel breaks in two and sinks off Villa Garcia, Mexico, with the loss of 244 of the 300 people on board. January 16 – The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa. January 17 – The first recorded public performance of the illusion of "sawing a woman in half" is given by English stage magician P. T. Selbit at the Finsbury Park Empire variety theatre in London. January 20 – British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in the English Channel; all 57 on board are lost. January 21 – The full-length silent comedy drama film The Kid, written, produced, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin (in his Tramp character), with Jackie Coogan, is released in the United States. January 25 – Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci is righted in Taranto Harbour. February February 12 – Red Army invasion of Georgia: The Democratic Republic of Georgia is invaded by forces of Bolshevist Russia. February 19 – The French Third Republic and Second Polish Republic form a defensive alliance. February 20 – The Young Communist League of Czechoslovakia is founded. February 21 1921 Persian coup d'état: Rezā Khan and Zia'eddin Tabatabaee stage a coup d'état in Qajar dynasty Iran. Conference of London of 1921–1922 convenes in an attempt to resolve problems arising from the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. February 23 – The moderately conservative public official Oscar von Sydow takes over the Swedish premiership from Baron Louis De Geer the Younger. February 25 – Red Army invasion of Georgia: The Red Army enters the Georgian capital Tbilisi and occupies the country, installing a new government and proclaiming the Georgian Soviet Republic. February 27 – A Socialist congress at Vienna ends with the International Working Union of Socialist Parties founded. February 28 – The Kronstadt rebellion is initiated by sailors of the Soviet Navy's Baltic Fleet. March March – The Group Settlement Scheme in Western Australia begins. March 1 The city of Kiryū, located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, is founded. The Australia national cricket team, led by Warwick Armstrong, becomes the first to complete a whitewash of the touring England team in The Ashes, something that will not be repeated for 86 years. March