Historical Events In 1916

Mar 09 General Fransisco "Pancho" Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM (17 killed)

Mar 20 Allies attack Zeebrugge Belgium

Mar 15 General Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-months

Mar 16 US &Canada sign Migratory bird treaty

Mar 25 Women are allowed to attend a boxing match

Mar 19 First U.S. Air Combat Mission Begins Eight Curtiss "Jenny" planes of the First Aero Squadron take off from Columbus, Mexico, in the first combat air mission in U.S. history

Mar 08 US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime

Mar 15 University of Gent goes under Dutch control

Mar 26 Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary

Mar 14 Battle of Verdun German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun

Mar 12 French airship sinks British submarine D3

Mar 17 Eight Curtiss "Jenny" planes of the First Aero Squadron take off from Columbus, Mexico, in the first combat air mission in U.S. history

Mar 25 Heavyweight Jess Willard & Franc Moran fight to no decision in 10 for boxing title (New York NY)

Mar 14 Battle of Verdun: German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun

Mar 31 Dutch government ends all military engagements

Mar 15 Six days after Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa killed seventeen Americans during a raid into U.S. territory, President Woodrow Wilson sends 6,600 U.S. troops over the border to capture Villa dead or alive

Mar 16 Canada signs Migratory Bird Treaty with the US

Mar 09 Germany declares war against Portugal

Mar 01 Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic

Aug 24 Official inauguration of the Australian Comforts Fund (ACF) The ACF coordinated the activities of the various State "patriotic funds" set up in 1914 to collect money to send comfort parcels to service personnel overseas

Aug 29 Steamer 'Hsin Iu' sinks off China coast, 1,000 drown

Aug 03 Australian Light Horse in battle of Romani, Egypt

Aug 28 Italy declares war against Germany during WW I

Aug 01 Hawaii National Park established

Aug 08 Battle for Mouquet Farm

Aug 04 US agrees to buy Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million

Aug 25 National Park Service established in the Dept of the Interior

Aug 30 Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany

Aug 26 Sgt. Reginald Stanley JUDSON, 1st Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Bapaume, France

Aug 25 The US National Park Service is established.

Sep 15 First tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France

Sep 15 Sgt. Donal Forrester Brown, 2nd Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at High Wood, Somme France

Sep 01 Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)

Sep 04 Christy Mathewson &Mordecai Brown final baseball game

Sep 03 Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun

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