Editing 1921 (section)

=== January ===
{{Main|January 1921}}
* [[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 [[First Brazilian Republic|Brazil]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Alex |last=Bellos|title=Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life - Updated Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dE9xAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA408|date=2014|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-4088-5416-7|pages=408–}}</ref>
** 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.<ref name=Times050121a>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Times]] |title=Santa Isabel disaster |date=5 January 1921 |page=9 |issue=42610}}</ref>
* [[January 16]] &ndash; The [[Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine]] holds its founding congress in [[Ľubochňa]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Yeshayahu A. Jelinek|author2=Yešaʻyāhû Yelîneq|author3=Yeshayahu Jelinek|title=The Lust for Power: Nationalism, Slovakia, and the Communists, 1918-1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O8dnAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=East European Monographs|isbn=978-0-88033-019-0|page=7}}</ref>
* [[January 17]] &ndash; 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.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jim|last=Steinmeyer|authorlink=Jim Steinmeyer|title=Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible|publisher=Random House|year=2003|pages=277–295}}</ref> 
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[British K-class submarine]] [[HMS K5|HMS ''K5'']] sinks in the [[English Channel]]; all 57 on board are lost.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Stephen |last1=Courtney|first2=Brian |last2=Patterson|title=Home of the Fleet: A Century of Portsmouth Royal Dockyard in Photographs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7RM7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT56|date=2009|publisher=History Press|isbn=978-0-7509-5653-6|pages=56}}</ref>
* [[January 21]] &ndash; The full-length [[Silent film|silent]] [[comedy drama]] film ''[[The Kid (1921 film)|The Kid]]'', written, produced, directed by and starring [[Charlie Chaplin]] (in his Tramp character), with [[Jackie Coogan]], is released in the United States.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci|Italian battleship ''Leonardo da Vinci'']] is righted in [[Taranto]] Harbour.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}