1916

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1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar)

Years:
1913 1914 1915 - 1916 - 1917 1918 1919

Decades:
1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s

Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1916 in art
1916 in aviation
1916 in film
1916 in literature
1916 in music
1916 in science
1916 in sports
1916 in Canada
1916 in Ireland

List of state leaders in 1916
List of religious leaders in 1916
List of international organization leaders in 1916

Contents

1 Events

1.1 Ongoing events

2 Births

2.1 January
2.2 February
2.3 March
2.4 April
2.5 May
2.6 June
2.7 July
2.8 September
2.9 October
2.10 November
2.11 December

3 Deaths

4 Nobel Prizes

Events

January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. Impressionist Monet paints 'Water Lilies'.
January 8 - Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli
January 17 - The Professional Golfers Association (PGA) is formed
January 23 ? 24 ? In Browning, Montana, the temperature drops from +6.7 to -48.8 degrees Celsius in one day
January 24 - In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax void
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.
February 2 ? Blizzard in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
February 3 - Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada are burned down.
February 11 - Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
February 11 - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert
February 21 - World War I: In France the Battle of Verdun begins.
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 9 - Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17.
March 15 - President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the Mexican border to pursue Pancho 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 characters Lúthien and Beren.
April 24 - April 30 - Easter Rising in Ireland
May 20 - The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage").
May 21 ? Sir Ernest Shackleton and two of his companions reach a whaling station to get help for the rest of the crew of Endurance. Britain initiates daylight savings 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 Orkneys, Scotland, with Lord Kitchener aboard
June 15 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America. [1]
July 1 - November 18: More than 1 million soldiers die during The Battle of the Somme including 60,000 soldiers from the British Commonwealth on the first day. The United States is still unwilling to join in the war with Britain, Canada, Australia and the other commonwealth countries.
July 15 - In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
July 16 - Hellenic Holocaust: The entire Greek population of Sinope and the coastal region of the county of Kastanome is either exiled or killed.
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
August 14 - United States purchases the Virgin Islands for $25 million from Denmark.
November 25 ? Friedrich Adler shoots Karl Stürgh, prime minister of Austria
December 12 ? In the Dolomites, an avalanche buries 18,000 Austrian and Italian soldiers.
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.
November - Woodrow Wilson defeats Charles E. Hughes in the U.S. presidential election
November 5 - Kingdom of Poland proclaimed by joined act of emperors of Germany and Austria.
November 7 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
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 22 - Jack London, American novelist, dies at the age of 40.
November 30 - Hellenic Holocaust: According to the Austrian consul: "on 26 November Rafet Bey (Turkish Minister of the Interior) told me: "we must finish off the Greeks as we did with the Armenians … on 28 November.""
December 23 - World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - In the Sinai desert, Australian and New Zealand mounted troops capture the Turkish garrison.

Woman's International Bowling Congress established in the US.
Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, are cancelled.
Cours de linguistique générale by Ferdinand de Saussure published
Robert Baden-Powell founds Wolf Scouts in Britain, changed to Cub Scouts in the USA.
Food rationed in Germany
Sopwith Camel aircraft is introduced to combat the German-built Fokker fighter aircraft.
Hipolito Irigoyen elected as the president of Argentina
The Netherlands is hit by a North Sea storm that floods lowlands and kills 10.000 people
Blaise Diagre, first black representative of Senegal in the French parliament

Ongoing events

Births

January

Jack Agazarian, SOE agent and hero of WW II (d. 1945)
January 3 - Betty Furness, actress, consumer activist (d. 1994)
January 12 - Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa

February

February 11 - Bernice Levin Neugarten, social scientist/gerontologist (d. 2001)
February 11 - Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1998)
February 14 - Masaki Kobayashi, director
February 26 - Jackie Gleason, comedian (d. 1987)
February 29 - Dinah Shore, singer (d. 1994)

March

March 3 - Paul Halmos, mathematician
March 4 - Hans Eysenck, psychologist (d. 1997)
March 11 - Harold Wilson, British prime minister (d. 1995)
March 13 - John Aspinwall Roosevelt, businessman, philanthropist (d. 1981)
March 14 - Horton Foote, writer
March 15 - Harry James, musician, band leader (d. 1983)
March 19 - Irving Wallace, novelist (d. 1990)
March 29 - Eugene McCarthy, former US Senator from Minnesota

April

April 3 - Herb Caen, newspaper columnist (d. 1997)
April 5 - Gregory Peck, actor (d. 2003)
April 12 - Beverly Cleary, author
April 15 – Alfred S. Bloomingdale, department store heir (d. 1982)
April 15 - Helene Hanff, author (d. 1997)
April 22 - Yehudi Menuhin, violinist (d. 1999)
April 25 - R.J. Rushdoony, founder of Christian Reconstructionism (d. 2001)
April 30 - Claude Elwood Shannon, the "father of information theory (d. 2001)

May

May 8 - João Havelange, industrialist and FIFA president 1974-1998
May 10 - Milton Babbitt, composer
May 20 - Trebisonda Valla, athlete
May 21 - Harold Robbins, novelist (d. 1997)
May 21 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter (d. 2002)
May 26 - Henriette Roosenburg, journalist (d. 1972)

June

June 8 - Francis Crick, scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
June 23 - Hermann Gmeiner, pedagogue (d. 1986)
June 23 - Irene Worth, actress (d. 2002)

December

December 9 - Kirk Douglas, US actor
December 19 - Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, publicist
Lee Hutton - English Cricketer

Deaths

February 6 - Rubén Darío, writer
February 12 - Richard Dedekind, mathematician
February 28 - Henry James, writer
May 3 - Padraig Pearse, Irish nationalist
May 11 - Max Reger, composer
June 6 - Yuan Shikai, Chinese military official and politician
June 29 - Georges Lacombe, French artist
July 6 - Odilon Redon, painter
July 23 - Sir William Ramsay, chemist and Nobel prize winner
May 13 - Sholom Aleichem, author
October 7 - James Whitcomb Riley, poet
October 28 - Cleveland Abbe, U.S. meteorologist (b. 1838)
November 13 - Lanoe Hawker, British fighter pilot.
November 14 - Saki, writer (b. 1870)
November 15 - Henryk Sienkiewicz, author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1905 (b. 1846)
November 22 - Jack London, author
November 24 - Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of Maxim Gun (b. 1840)
December 5 - Princess Augusta of Cambridge, the last grandchild of George III
December 28 - Eduard Strauss, composer (b. 1835)
December 29/December 30 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk & mystic
February 19 - Ernst Mach, physicist and philosopher

Nobel Prizes

Physics - not awarded
Chemistry - not awarded
Medicine - not awarded
Literature - Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
Peace - not awarded

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