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1916 (''' MCMXVI ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Saturday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-February
March-June
- 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 22 - Marriage of Edith Bratt and John Ronald Reuel Tolkien . They would serve as the inspiration for the Fictional Character s Lúthien and Beren .
- April 24 - April 30 - Easter Rising in Ireland
- April 27 - Battle Of Hulluch in World War One , 47th Brigade, 16th Irish Division decimated in one of the most heavily-concentrated gas attacks of the war
- 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 31 - June 1 - Battle Of Jutland
- 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 . {Link without Title}
July-September
- soldiers die during The Battle Of The Somme including 60,000 soldiers from 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 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 29 - In Ontario, Canada , a lightning strike ignites a forest fire that destroys the towns of Cochrane and Matheson - 233 dead
- September - Bulgaria takes Dobruja from the Romanians.
October-December
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- October 16 - Margaret Sanger founds Planned Parenthood by opening the first U.S. birth control clinic.
- Mikael , marching on the Ethiopia n capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu , is defeated by Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis , securing the throne for Empress Zauditu .
- November 5 - Kingdom Of Poland proclaimed by joint act of emperors of Germany and Austria
- 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 .
- ends - In France , British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1 , 1916.
- November 25 - Friedrich Adler shoots Karl Von Stürgkh , Prime Minister Of Austria
- December 12 - In the Dolomites , an Avalanche buries 18,000 Austrian and Italian soldiers.
- 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
- - In the Sinai desert, Australia n and New Zealand mounted troops capture the Turkish garrison.
- 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.
Unknown dates
Ongoing events
Disputed events
Births
January-March
- 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
- January 22 - Henri Dutilleux , French composer
- February 9 - Tex Hughson , baseball player (d. 1993 )
- February 11 - Joseph Alioto , Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1998 )
- February 14 - Masaki Kobayashi , Japanese film director (d. 1996 )
- February 26 - Jackie Gleason , American comedian (d. 1987 )
- February 29 - Dinah Shore , American singer (d. 1994 )
- March 3 - Paul Halmos , Hungarian-born mathematician
- 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 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 19 - Irving Wallace , American novelist (d. 1990 )
- 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 )
April-June
- 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 15 - Alfred S. Bloomingdale , American department store heir (d. 1982 )
- April 22 - Yehudi Menuhin , American-born violinist (d. 1999 )
- April 25 - R.J. Rushdoony , American founder of Christian Reconstructionism (d. 2001 )
- 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 )
- May 1 - Glenn Ford , American actor
- May 6 - Robert H. Dicke , American experimental physicist (d. 1997 )
- May 8 - Swami Chinmayananda , spread the teachings of Vedanta (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 20 - Trebisonda Valla , Italian athlete
- May 21 - Tinus Osendarp , Dutch runner (d. 2002 )
- May 21 - Harold Robbins , American novelist (d. 1997 )
- May 26 - Henriette Roosenburg , Dutch journalist (d. 1972 )
- June 4 - Robert F. Furchgott , American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- 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 )
July-December
- July 1 - Olivia De Havilland , British actress
- July 2 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel , German pilot (d. 1982 )
- July 9 - Sir 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 14 - Natalia Ginzburg , Italian author (d. 1991 )
- July 18 - L. Patrick Gray III , director of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation (d. 2005 )
- July 22 - Marcel Cerdan , French boxer (d. 1949 )
- July 22 - Larry Hooper , American singer and musician (d. 1983 )
- July 25 - Fred Lasswell , American cartoonist (d. 2001 )
- July 31 - Bill Todman , American game show producer (d. 1979 )
- August 25 - Frederick Chapman Robbins , American pediatrician and virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 2003 )
- August 27 - Martha Raye , American actress (d. 1994 )
- September 13 - Roald Dahl , Welsh author (d. 1990 )
- October 3 - James Herriot , veterinarian and author (d. 1995 )
- October 4 - Vitaly Ginzburg , Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
- 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 )
- 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 16 - Daws Butler , American voice actor (d. 1988 )
- November 24 - Forrest J. Ackerman , American writer
- November 27 - Chick Hearn , American basketball announcer (d. 2002 )
- November 28 - Mary Lilian Baels , queen of Léopold III Of Belgium (d. 2002 )
- 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 19 - Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann , German political scientist
- December 19 - Jack Agazarian , English World War II spy (d. 1945 )
Deaths
- January 13 - Victoriano Huerta , President Of Mexico (b. 1854 )
- February 6 - Rubén Darío , Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867 )
- February 12 - Richard Dedekind , German mathematician (b. 1831 )
- February 13 - Vilhelm Hammershøi , Danish painter (b. 1864 )
- February 19 - Ernst Mach , Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1838 )
- February 20 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson , Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1844 )
- February 28 - Henry James , American writer (b. 1843 )
- March 4 - Franz Marc , German artist (b. 1880 )
- March 24 - Enrique Granados , Spanish composer (ship sinking) (b. 1867 )
- April 19 - Ephraim Shay , American inventor (b. 1839 )
- May 3 - Padraig Pearse , Irish nationalist (b. 1879 )
- May 11 - Max Reger , German composer (b. 1873 )
- May 12 - James Connolly , Irish socialist (b. 1868 )
- May 13 - Sholom Aleichem , Ukrainian Yiddish writer (b. 1859 )
- June 6 - Yuan Shikai , Chinese military official and politician (b. 1859 )
- June 29 - Georges Lacombe , French artist (b. 1868 )
- July 6 - Odilon Redon , French painter (b. 1840 )
- July 16 - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov , Russian microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1845 )
- July 23 - Sir William Ramsay , Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852 )
- August 31 - Martha McClellan Brown , American activist (b. 1838 )
- September 4 - José Echegaray Y Eizaguirre , Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832 )
- October 7 - James Whitcomb Riley , American poet (b. 1849 )
- October 28 - Cleveland Abbe , American meteorologist (b. 1838 )
- November 13 - Lanoe Hawker , British fighter pilot (b. 1890 )
- November 14 - Saki , British writer (b. 1870 )
- November 15 - Henryk Sienkiewicz , Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846 )
- November 21 - Emperor Franz Joseph I Of Austria (b. 1830 )
- November 22 - Jack London , American author (b. 1876 )
- November 24 - Hiram Stevens Maxim , American firearms inventor (b. 1840 )
- December 28 - Eduard Strauss , Austrian composer (b. 1835 )
- December 29 - Grigori Rasputin , Russian mystic (b. 1870 )
Nobel Prizes
External Links
- Advertising Publications: "Fishing for Suckers" From the American Memory Collection of the Library of Congress
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