Page 11: Historical Events In 1916

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.   

Aug 02   World War I: Austrian sabotage leads to the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.   

Aug 03   Australian Light Horse in battle of Romani, Egypt.   

Aug 03   Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), executed 51   

Aug 04   Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the US for $25 million   

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

Aug 05   George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, composer, dies at 31   

Aug 06   Dom[inic] Mintoff, premier Malta   

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Jan 01   Earl wrightson: Balt md, singer (paul whiteman's goodyear revue)   

Jan 03   Antonio estevez: Composer   

Jan 03   Betty furness: Nyc, actress/consumer activist (studio 1)   

Jan 03   Bernard greenhouse: American cellist   

Jan 04   Catherina elisabeth "tootje" vreede: Portrait painter   

Jan 04   Robert parrish: Columbus ga, director (casino royale)   

Jan 04   Lionel newman: American film music composer   

Jan 06   Philip bezanson: Composer   

Jan 03   Grenville m. dodge: American civil war union army major general (b. 1831)   

Jan 08   Ada rehan: Irish-born american actress (b. 1860)   

Jan 14   Otto ammon: German anthropologist/sociologist,    

Jan 15   Modest tchaikovsky: Russian writer (b. 1850)   

Jan 16   Arnold aletrino: Dut physician-criminologist (from death),    

Jan 22   Iwan knorr: Composer,   

Jan 29   Edward hubertus joannes keurvils: Composer,    

Feb 01   Anton simon: Composer,