Historical Events In 1916

Aug 26   On this day in history phila A's Bullet Joe Bush no-hits Cleve, 5-0  

Aug 26   In the year 1916 sgt. Reginald Stanley JUDSON, 1st Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Bapaume, France  

Aug 27   Martha Raye, [Margaret Reed], Butte Mont, actress (Martha Raye Show) on this day in history.  

Aug 27   In the year 1916 romania declares war on Austria-Hungary  

Aug 28   C Wright Mills, sociologist, writer (The Power Elite) [or May 28] in the year 1916.  

Aug 28   Francis W Warre-Cornish, Engl vice-provost of Eton (1893-1916), dies in the year 1916.  

Aug 28   In the year 1916 germany declares war on Romania  

Aug 28   Italy declares war against Germany during WW I on this day in history.  

Aug 29   Congress creates US Naval reserve in the year 1916.  

Aug 29   On this day in history george Montgomery, Brady Mont, actor (Battle of Bulge, Hallucination)  

Aug 29   In the year 1916 steamer 'Hsin Iu' sinks off China coast, 1,000 drown  

Aug 30   In the year 1916 boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0  

Aug 30   On this day in history john Thoday, geneticist  

Aug 30   Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany on this day in history.  

Aug 31   In the year 1916 daniel Schorr, broadcast journalist (CBS)  

Aug 31   Oscar Asche's musical "Chu Chin Chow," premieres in London in the year 1916.  

Sep 01   Bulgaria declares war on Romania in the year 1916.  

Sep 01   Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce) in the year 1916.  

Sep 01   On this day in history sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner  

Sep 02   Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney, winner of more than 141 US tennis titles in the year 1916.  

Sep 03   On this day in history allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun  

Sep 03   In the year 1916 memphis Slim, [Peter Chatman], rocker  

Sep 04   Christy Mathewson & Mordecai Brown final baseball game on this day in history.  

Sep 04   Christy Mathewson &Mordecai Brown final baseball game on this day in history.  

Sep 04   In the year 1916 robert [Augustine] W[ard] Lowndes, US, sci-fi author (Puzzle Planet)  

Sep 05   In the year 1916 36th US Mens Tennis: R N Williams III beats Johnston (46 64 06 62 64)  

Sep 06   Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, English landowner in the year 1916.  

Sep 07   Giants beat Brooklyn 4-1, to launch NY's record 26-game winning streak on this day in history.  

Sep 10   On this day in history friedrich Gernsheim, composer, dies at 77  

Sep 10   Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician in the year 1916.  

Sep 10   In the year 1916 the suspension span ofQuebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence which was being lifted, buckled and fell into the river killing 10 - 12 workmen.  

Sep 11   On this day in history german troops conquer Kavalla Greece  

Sep 13   Roald Dahl, Norway, sci-fi author (Over to You, Taste, 2 Fables) in the year 1916.  

Sep 14   On this day in history christy Mathewson pitches & wins his final game  

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Jan 01   Earl Wrightson, Balt Md, singer (Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue) was born in the year 1916.  

Jan 03   Antonio Estevez, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 03   Betty Furness, NYC, actress/consumer activist (Studio 1) was born in the year 1916.  

Jan 03   In the year 1916 birth of bernard Greenhouse, American cellist  

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of catherina Elisabeth "Tootje" Vreede, portrait painter  

Jan 04   In the year 1916 birth of robert Parrish, Columbus Ga, director (Casino Royale)  

Jan 04   Lionel Newman, American film music composer (d. 1989) was born in the year 1916.  

Jan 06   In the year 1916 birth of philip Bezanson, composer  

Jan 03   Grenville M. Dodge, American Civil War Union Army Major General (b. 1831) died on this day in history.  

Jan 08   Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860) died on this day in history.  

Jan 14   Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist, dies at 73 in the year 1916.  

Jan 15   On this day in history death of modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer (b. 1850)  

Jan 16   Arnold Aletrino, Dut physician-criminologist (From Death), dies at 57 in the year 1916.  

Jan 22   On this day in history iwan Knorr, composer, dies at 63  

Jan 29   In the year 1916 edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvils, composer, dies at 62  

Feb 01   Anton Simon, composer, dies at 65 in the year 1916.