The Virginia National Guard stood for inspection on this date at Camp (now Fort) Meade.
The Virginia National Guard wasn't the only group of men, and they were all men at the time, tenting, or at least camping of a sort.
President Harding, Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone also were on this day in 21.
The men had been a camping circle for years, styling themselves the Vagabonds. It gave them a chance to get away, and discuss stuff.
On this day the Chinese Communist Party met for the first time. It had 57 members and adjourned from a room meeting to one on a boat, which was safer. The meeting was in the Chinese French Concession in Shanghai, which remains an area of China that features French architecture.
On the same day, also in China, Sun Yat-sen announced that his self-declared government was ceasing relations with the government in Beijing.
