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'''1916''' '''(MCMXVI)''' is a Leap_year_starting_on_Saturday (link will take you to calendar)
==Events==
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===January-February===
* January_1 -The first successful Blood_transfusion using Blood that had been stored and cooled. Impressionist Monet paints 'Water_Lilies'.
* January_5 - Heavy rain - allegedly caused by 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 (PGA) is formed
* January_18 - A 611 Gram chondrite type Meteorite struck a house near Baxter, Stone_County,_Missouri.
* January_23 to 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 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_9 - 6.00 PM - 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_21 - World_War_I: In France the Battle_of_Verdun begins.
===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_characters 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 - Sir Ernest_Shackleton and two of his companions reach a whaling station to get help for the rest of the crew of ''Endurance''.
* 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 Orkneys, Scotland, with Lord Kitchener aboard
* June_15 - U.S. President Woodrow_Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy_Scouts_of_America. http://www.scouting.org/factsheets/02-507.html
===July-August===
* 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_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_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
*2_August - World_War_I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of Italian_battleship_Leonardo_da_Vinci in Taranto.
===October-December===
Image:New_Zealand_trench_Somme_1916.jpg during World_War_I.]]
* 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.
* November_5 - Kingdom of Poland proclaimed by joined 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 William Morris 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_25 - Friedrich_Adler shoots Karl_Stürgh, Prime_minister_of_Austria
* 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_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
* December_23 - World War I: Battle_of_Magdhaba - In the Sinai desert, Australian 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===
* Hipolito_Irigoyen elected as the President_of_Argentina.
* Blaise_Diagre, 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 theTerrytoons.
===Ongoing events===
* World_War_I (1914-1918)
* Armenian_Genocide (1915-1918)
* Mexican_Revolution
==Births==
===January-March===
* January_3 - Betty_Furness, American actress and consumer activist (d. 1994)
* January_7 - Paul_Keres, Estonian chess player
* 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
* 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_in_Chemistry laureate (d. 1995)
* March_29 - Eugene_McCarthy, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (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_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_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_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_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
* November_10 - Louis_le_Brocquy, Irish painter
* November_16 - Daws_Butler, American voice actor
* 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 the Belgians (d. 2002)
* November_29 - Fran_Ryan, American actress (d. 2000)
* December_9 - Kirk_Douglas, American actor
* December_11 - Dámaso_Pérez_Prado, Cuban musician (d. 1989)
*December_15 - Maurice_Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine (d. 2004)
* December_19 - Elisabeth_Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist
* Jack_Agazarian, English World War II spy (d. 1945)
==Deaths==
* February_6 - Rubén_Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
* February_12 - Richard_Dedekind, German mathematician (b. 1831)
* 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_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 Temperance_movement leader (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==
* Physics - not awarded
* Chemistry - not awarded
* Medicine - not awarded
* Literature - Carl_Gustaf_Verner_von_Heidenstam
* Peace - not awarded
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