1916

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Contents (full)

1 Events of 1916

- Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

- May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug.

- Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec.

- Undated ^. Ongoing

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Fictional - Nobel prizes

5 See also - Notes - External links

[edit] Events of 1916

[edit] January

January 1: Claude Monet paints Water Lilies series.

January 29: Paris is bombed by zeppelins.

January 1 - The Royal Army Medical Corps first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled.
January 1 - Impressionist painter Monet paints Water Lilies series.
January 5 - rainmaker Charles Hatfield - begins; it will cause flooding around San Diego, California
January 8 - Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli
January 13/14 - A heavy storm sweeps through the Zuiderzee in the Netherlands, causing extensive damage. This storm helped the Dutch parliament to decide to build the Afsluitdijk and build polders in the current IJsselmeer.
January 17 - The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is formed
January 18 - A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite struck a house near Baxter, Stone County, Missouri.
January 23 to January 24 In Browning, Montana, the temperature drops from +6.7°C to -48.8°C (44°F to -56°F) in one day, the greatest change ever on record for a 24-hour period.
January 24 - In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad the Supreme Court of the United States upholds the federal income tax
January 28 - Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
January 29 - World War I: Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.

[edit] February

February 3 - Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada are burned down.
February 9 - 6.00 p.m. - Tristan Tzara "founds" Dadaism (according to Hans Arp).
February 11 - Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
February 11 - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its first concert.
February 11 – Romanian football club Sportul Studenţesc is founded.
February 21 - World War I: In France the Battle of Verdun begins.

[edit] March

March 1 - Liberal British Columbia Premier Harlan Carey Brewster term in office ends
March 6 - Sydney conservatorium of music in Australia accepts first students
March 8-9 night - Mexican Revolution - Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17. Garrison of US 13th Cavalry Regiment fights back and drives them away.
March 15 - President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border border to pursue Pancho Villa; 13th Cavalry regiment enters Mexican territory.
March 16 - US 7th and 10th cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing crosses the border to join the hunt of Villa
March 19 - First United States air combat mission in history as eight US planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa
March 20 - Ota Benga at the age of 32, he built a ceremonial fire, chipped off the caps on his teeth, performed a final tribal dance, and shot himself in the heart with a stolen pistol.
March 22 - Marriage of Edith Bratt and John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. They would serve as the inspiration for the fictional characters Lúthien and Beren.

[edit] April

April 24 - April 30 - Easter Rising in Ireland
April 27 - Battle of Hulluch in World War I, 47th Brigade, 16th Irish Division decimated in one of the most heavily-concentrated gas attacks of the war

[edit] May

May 5 - United States Marines invade the Dominican Republic.
May 20 - The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage").
May 21 - Britain initiates daylight saving time.
May 22 - United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola is decided.
May 31 - June 1 - Battle of Jutland

[edit] June

June 5 - Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
June 5 - HMS Hampshire sinks off the Orkney Islands, Scotland, with Lord Kitchener aboard
June 8 - The Brusilov Offensive, the height of Russian operations in WWI, begins with the breakthrough of Austro-Hungarian lines.
June 15 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America. [1]

[edit] July

July 1 - November 18: More than 1 million soldiers die during The Battle of the Somme including 60,000 casualties for the British Commonwealth on the first day.
July 1 through July 12, at least one shark mauled five swimmers along 80 miles of New Jersey coastline during the Jersey Shore Shark Attacks of 1916, resulting in four deaths and survival of one youth who required limb amputation. This event was the inspiration for author Peter Benchley, over half a century later, to write Jaws.
July 2 - Battle of Erzincan
July 8-16- Massive flooding caused by two different hurricanes devastates Western North Carolina.
July 15 - In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
July 22 - In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 injuring 40. (Warren Billings and Tom Mooney are later wrongly convicted of it)
July 23 - Birth of Sandra Gould.
July 29 - In Ontario, Canada, a lightning strike ignites a forest fire that destroys the towns of Cochrane and Matheson - 233 dead
July 30 - German agents cause the Black Tom explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey, an act of sabotage destroying an ammunition depot and killing at least seven people.

[edit] August

August 7 - Portugal joins the allies in the World War I
August 25 - President Woodrow Wilson signs legislation creating the National Park Service.

[edit] September

September - Bulgaria takes Dobruja from the Romanians.
September 2 - William Leefe-Robinson becomes the first pilot to shoot down a German airship over Britain.
September 13 - Mary, a circus elephant, is hanged in the town of Erwin, Tennessee for killing her handler, Walter "Red" Eldridge.
September 13 - Roald Dahl is born.

[edit] October

Troops from New Zealand during World War I.

October 16 - Margaret Sanger founds Planned Parenthood by opening the first U.S. birth control clinic.
October 27 - Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu, is defeated by Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.

[edit] November

November 5 - Kingdom of Poland proclaimed by joint act of emperors of Germany and Austria
November 5 - Honan Chapel, Cork, Ireland, a product of the Irish Arts & Crafts Movement(1894-1925), was dedicated.
November 7 - Woodrow Wilson defeats Charles E. Hughes in the U.S. presidential election.
November 7 - Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
November 13 - Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
November 18 - World War I: First Battle of the Somme ends - In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
November 21 - HMHS Britannic (built in 1911 and launched in 1914), the third and largest Olympic-class ocean liner of the White Star Line, sister ship of RMS Olympic and the legendary RMS Titanic, sank after hitting a mine with the loss of 30 lives.
November 23 - World War I,Eastern Front: Bucharest, the capital of Romania, is occupied by the troops of the Central Powers.
November 25 - Friedrich Adler shoots Karl von Stürgkh, Prime Minister of Austria

[edit] December

December 12 - In the Dolomites, an avalanche buries 18,000 Austrian and Italian soldiers.
December 23 - World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - In the Sinai desert, Australian and New Zealand mounted troops capture the Turkish garrison.
December 29 - Grigori Rasputin is murdered by two Romanov family members.
December 30 - Humberto Gómez and his mercenaries seize Arauca in Colombia and declare Republic of Arauca. He proceeds to pillage the region before fleeing to Venezuela
December 31 - The Hampton Terrace Hotel in North Augusta, South Carolina, one of the largest and most luxurious hotels in the nation at the time, burns to the ground.

[edit] Undated

Rodeo's first side-delivery bucking chute designed and made by the Bascom boys, Raymond, Mel, Earl and their father John W. Bascom at Welling, Alberta Canada
Hipolito Irigoyen elected as the President of Argentina.
Blaise Diagne, first black representative of Senegal in the French parliament
Cours de linguistique générale by Ferdinand de Saussure is published.
Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, are cancelled.
Food is rationed in Germany.
Ernst Rudin published his initial results on the genetics of schizophrenia.
The Netherlands is hit by a North Sea storm that floods lowlands and kills 10.000 people.
Woman's International Bowling Congress established in the US.
Robert Baden-Powell founds Wolf Scouts in Britain, changed to Cub Scouts in the USA.
Sopwith Camel aircraft is introduced to combat the German-built Fokker fighter aircraft.
Louis Enricht claims he has a substitute for gasoline
Gustav Holst composes The Planets, Opus 32
Bray Studios created the Farmer Alfalfa series, the first of the Terrytoons.
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers founded
The Enrico Parodi sinks while in tow off the The Carracks in Cornwall, England.

[edit] Ongoing

World War I (1914-1918).
Mexican Revolution.
Ethnic cleansing in Turkey:
- Assyrian Genocide (1914–1922)
- Armenian Genocide (1915–1918)
- Pontic Greek Genocide (1916–1923).

[edit] Births

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[edit] January-February

January 3 - Betty Furness, American actress and consumer activist (d. 1994)
January 7 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975)
January 9 - Peter Twinn, English mathematician and World War II code-breaker (d. 2004)
January 10 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
January 12 - Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa (d. 2006)
January 17 - Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr., American politician
January 18 - Silviu Brucan, Romanian author and politician (d. 2006)
January 19 - Harry Huskey, American computer designer
January 22 - Henri Dutilleux, French composer
January 24 - Marvin Creamer, American sailor
January 24 - Rafael Caldera, President of Venezuela

February 2 - Olaf Pooley, English actor
February 4 - Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st master of the Oveyssi Sufi order (d. 1980)
February 9 - Tex Hughson, baseball player (d. 1993)
February 11 - Ivan Hristov Bashev, Bulgarian Foreign Minister (d. 1971)
February 11 - Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1998)
February 14 - Sally Gray, English actress (d. 2006)
February 14 - Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese film director (d. 1996)
February 14 - Denham Harman, American gerontologist
February 14 - Marcel Bigeard, French military officer
February 15 - Ernest Millington, English politician
February 18 - Maria Altmann, Austrian Holocaust survivor and hieress
February 20 - Jean Erdman, American dancer
February 26 - Jackie Gleason, American comedian (d. 1987)
February 28 - Svend Asmussen, Danish jazz violinist
February 29 - Dinah Shore, American singer (d. 1994)

[edit] March-April

March 3 - Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 2006)
March 4 - William Alland, American actor, producer, writer and director (d. 1997)
March 4 - Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (d. 2000)
March 4 - Hans Eysenck, German-born psychologist (d. 1997)
March 11 - Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
March 13 - John Aspinwall Roosevelt, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1981)
March 13 - Lindy Boggs, American politician
March 14 - Horton Foote, American writer
March 15 - Harry James, American musician and band leader (d. 1983)
March 17 - Ray Ellington, British singer (d. 1985)
March 17 - Volodia Teitelboim, Chilean author and politician
March 19 - Irving Wallace, American novelist (d. 1990)
March 20 - Pierre Messmer, French politician
March 24 -Donald Hamilton, Swedish-born writer
March 26 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
March 29 - Eugene McCarthy, U.S. Senator from Minnesota and Presidential candidate (d. 2005)
March 31 - Lucille Bliss, American voice actor

April 3 - Peter Gowland, American photographer
April 3 - Herb Caen, American journalist (d. 1997)
April 5 - Gregory Peck, American actor (d. 2003)
April 11 - Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (d. 1983)
April 12 - Beverly Cleary, American author
April 13 - Phyllis Fraser, American actor and publisher (d. 2006)
April 15 - Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American department store heir (d. 1982)
April 18 - José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, President of Costa Rica
April 22 - Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (d. 1999)
April 24 - Stanley Kauffmann, American film critic
April 25 - R.J. Rushdoony, American founder of Christian Reconstructionism (d. 2001)
April 26 - Dorothy Salisbury Davis, American writer
April 26 - George Tuska, American comic strip artist
April 28 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993)
April 30 - Claude Elwood Shannon, American information theorist (d. 2001)
April 30 - Robert Shaw, American conductor (d. 1999)

[edit] May-June

May 1 - Glenn Ford, American actor (d. 2006)
May 6 - Robert H. Dicke, American experimental physicist (d. 1997)
May 8 - Chinmayananda, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1993)
May 8 - João Havelange, Brazilian industrialist and football league president
May 10 - Milton Babbitt, American composer
May 11 - Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
May 15 - Ephraim Katzir, President of Israel
May 17 - Lenka Reinerová, Czech writer
May 20 - Trebisonda Valla, Italian athlete (d. 2006)
May 20 - Owen Chadwick, British author and historian
May 21 - Lydia Mendoza, American musician
May 21 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (d. 2002)
May 21 - Harold Robbins, American novelist (d. 1997)
May 26 - Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972)
May 31 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (d. 1997)
May 31 - Bernard Lewis, British historian

June 4 - Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
June 5 - Eddie Joost, baseball player and manager
June 8 - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
June 9 - Robert McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense
June 15 - Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)
June 18 - Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (d. 2005)
June 23 - Hermann Gmeiner, Austrian educator (d. 1986)
June 23 - Len Hutton, English cricketer (d. 1990)
June 24 - William B. Saxbe, American politician

[edit] July-August

July 1 - Olivia de Havilland, British actress
July 1 - Lawrence Halprin, American architect
July 2 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German pilot (d. 1982)
July 2 - Zélia Gattai, Brazilian author and photographer
July 4 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, "Tokyo Rose" (d. 2006)
July 4 - Fernand Leduc, Canadian painter
July 8 - Jean Rouverol, American actress, screenwriter, and author
July 9 - Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
July 11 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
July 11 - Gough Whitlam, twenty-first Prime Minister of Australia
July 11 - Reg Varney, British actor
July 14 - Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author (d. 1991)
July 18 - L. Patrick Gray III, American Federal Bureau of Investigation director (d. 2005)
July 19 - Phil Cavarretta, baseball player
July 22 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)
July 22 - Larry Hooper, American singer and musician (d. 1983)
July 23 - George 'Dusty' Rhodes, British Army Sergeant and author
July 25 - Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
July 28 - David Brown, American producer
July 30 - Dick Wilson, American actor
July 31 - Bill Todman, American game show producer (d. 1979)

August 1 - Fiorenzo Cardinal Angelini, Italian Cardinal
August 5 - Kermit Love, American puppeter
August 6 - Dom Mintoff, Prime Minister of Malta
August 14 - Ralph de Toledano, American conservationist and author
August 16 - Iggy Katona, American race car driver (d. 2003)
August 20 - Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian chess player (d. 1984)
August 25 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2003)
August 25 - Van Johnson, American actor
August 27 - Martha Raye, American actress (d. 1994)
August 28 - Jack Vance, American writer
August 29 - Luther Davis, American screenwriter
August 31 - Daniel Schorr, American journalist
August 31 - John S. Wold, American politician

[edit] September-October

September 1 - Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player
September 1 - Joseph Minish, American politician
September 13 - Roald Dahl, Welsh author (d. 1990)
September 14 - John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (d. 2001)
September 27 - Frank Handlen, American artist

October 3 - Shelby Storck, American television producer (d. 1969)
October 3 - James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (d. 1995)
October 4 - Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
October 12 - Alice Childress, American actress, playwright, and novelist (d. 1994)
October 14 - C. Everett Koop, United States Surgeon General
October 19 - Jean Dausset, French immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
October 19 - Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1994)
October 26 - François Mitterrand, President of France (d. 1996)
October 30 - Leon Day, baseball player (d. 1995)

[edit] November-December

November 1 - John C. Harkness, American architect
November 4 - Walter Cronkite, American television journalist
November 5 - Jim Tabor, baseball player (d. 1953)
November 10 - Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter
November 11 - Robert Carr, British politician
November 14 - Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer and producer
November 16 - Daws Butler, American voice actor (d. 1988)
November 24 - Forrest J. Ackerman, American writer
November 26 - Gerhard Unger, German tenor
November 27 - Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (d. 2002)
November 28 - Mary Lilian Baels, queen of Léopold III of Belgium (d. 2002)
November 28 - Ramón José Velásquez, President of Venezuela
November 29 - Fran Ryan, American actress (d. 2000)

December 8 - Richard Fleischer, American film director (d. 2006)
December 9 - Kirk Douglas, American actor
December 11 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (d. 1989)
December 14 - Shirley Jackson, American writer (d. 1965)
December 15 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
December 18 - Betty Grable, American actress (d. 1973)
December 18 - Douglas Fraser, Scottish-born union leader
December 19 - Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist
December 19 - Roy Ward Baker, English film director
December 19 - Jack Agazarian, English

World War II spy (d. 1945)

December 20 - W. Lloyd Barry, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses (d. 1999)
December 25 - Graciela Naranjo, Venezuelan singer and actress (d. 2001)