Page 11: Historical Events In 1916
Thursday, 19 February 2026
Jul 15 American airline manufacturer Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing), opens its doors. 


Jul 15 George Maduro, Antillian resistance fighter (Willemsorde/Madurodam) 


Jul 16 Harold Locke, archdeacon of Loughborough. 


Jul 16 Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, Russ bacteriologist (Nobel 1908), dies. 


Jul 17 Eleanor Steber, Wheeling WV, soprano (Metropolitan Opera-1940) 


Jul 18 Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author 


Jul 18 Isaac [Ietje] A Diepenhorst, Dutch lawyer/minister of Education 


Jul 19 Battle of Fromelles, France starts. 


Jul 19 James D Ramage, US lt-Adm (WW II-Palau/Guam/Philippines). 


Jul 20 Giants trade Christy Mathewson to Cin Reds 


Jul 22 A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in SF killing 10. 


Jul 22 Hipolito M Ocalia, Curacao, landscape painter 


Jul 22 Ten people are killed when a bomb explodes during the Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco 


Jul 23 Ben Weber, St Louis Missouri, composer (Thorne Music Award-1965). 


Jul 23 William Ramsey, chemist, dies 


Jul 24 Bob Eberly, Mechanicsville NY, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band) 


Jul 25 Explosion at Lake Erie and Cleveland Waterworks 


Jul 25 Ko van Dijk Jr, Dutch actor (Zaak M P). 


Jul 26 Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer, dies at 52. 


Jul 27 Asfa Wossen, Crown prince of Ethiopia/son of emperor Haile Selassi. 


Jul 27 Charles Fryatt, British capt of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies. 


Jul 28 David Brown, NYC, director (Jaws, Planet of the Apes). 


Jul 28 Navy establishes a Code and Signal Section which initially worked against German ciphers and tested the security of communications during U.S. naval training maneuvers 


Jul 29 Postal check and Girodienst establishes 


Jul 30 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #951 Gaspra. 


Jul 30 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ 


Jul 30 Robert van Spaendonk, Dutch resistance fighter. 


Jul 31 Sydney Tafler, London England, actor (Too Many Crooks) 


Aug 01 Claude Newberry, S Afr cricket All-rounder (v England 1913-14), dies. 


Aug 01 Hawaii National Park established 


Aug 01 Hawaii National Park forms 


Aug 01 Viscount Hanworth, barrister. 


Aug 02 Beatrice Straight, Old Westbury NY, actress (Poltergeist, Nun's Story). 


Aug 02 Hamish MacCunn, composer, dies at 48 


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