On this day in 1921the Federation of Central America, made up of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, came into existence. Tegucigalpa was the capital. The treaty creating the union provided only for provisional delegates to its parliament, so in reality it never took off.
There have been numerous efforts to create such a union, following the end of Mexican claims to the region in the 19th Century. All have unfortunately failed, which has been a major contributor to the agony of the region in the 20th and 21st Centuries.
On states that failed, the Kingdom of Kurdistan was proclaimed on this day in 1921.
Encompassing a fairly small area of the region inhabited by the Kurds, all of which was within Iraq, the British put the putative kingdom down in 1924, and it was incorporated back into the British mandate in Mesopotamia in 1926 by the League of Nations.
Here too, if the state had been allowed to exist, much of modern history in the region would have been different, and potentially better.
The Yankees won game 5 of the 1921 World Series, regaining the lead from the Giants. The score was 3 to 1.
In other sports, a photographer caught a group of Army officers playing polo at Camp Grant., Illinois.
Polo, Camp Grant, October 10, 1921
Polo had become a big Army sport in the early 20th Century, and the interwar years were really its high water mark. During that period it was widely participated in and encouraged by the Army. Polo became common not only in the Regular Army, but in the National Guard.
Hines was back at work photographing Appalachia, including the members of an African American 4H Club..
Miners cabins on the Elk River at Bream, W. Va. near Charleston. Others on slope beyond. A typical mining community here. Children go to Big Chimney school. Oct. 10, 1921. Location: Bream, West Virginia
Former 4H members who were attending an African American agricultural college in West Virginia.
