Page 11: Historical Events In 1916

Jul 14   Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author (Family dictionary) on this day in history.   

Jul 15   22.22" (56.4 cm) of rain falls in Altapass NC (state record) on this day in history.   

Jul 15   22.22" of rain falls in Altapass NC on this day in history.   

Jul 15   American airline manufacturer Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing), opens its doors in the year 1916.   

Jul 15   In the year 1916 george Maduro, Antillian resistance fighter (Willemsorde/Madurodam)   

Jul 16   In the year 1916 harold Locke, archdeacon of Loughborough   

Jul 16   On this day in history ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, Russ bacteriologist (Nobel 1908), dies   

Jul 17   Eleanor Steber, Wheeling WV, soprano (Metropolitan Opera-1940) on this day in history.   

Jul 18   In the year 1916 benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author   

Jul 18   In the year 1916 isaac [Ietje] A Diepenhorst, Dutch lawyer/minister of Education   

Jul 19   On this day in history battle of Fromelles, France starts   

Jul 19   James D Ramage, US lt-Adm (WW II-Palau/Guam/Philippines) on this day in history.   

Jul 20   On this day in history giants trade Christy Mathewson to Cin Reds   

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

Jul 22   On this day in history hipolito M Ocalia, Curacao, landscape painter   

Jul 22   Ten people are killed when a bomb explodes during the Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco in the year 1916.   

Jul 23   On this day in history australians enter the action in the battle of the Somme at Pozières and Mouquet Farm, France   

Jul 23   Ben Weber, St Louis Missouri, composer (Thorne Music Award-1965) on this day in history.   

Jul 23   On this day in history william Ramsey, chemist, dies   

Jul 24   In the year 1916 bob Eberly, Mechanicsville NY, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band)   

Jul 25   In the year 1916 explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks   

Jul 25   Ko van Dijk Jr, Dutch actor (Zaak M P) in the year 1916.   

Jul 26   Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer, dies at 52 in the year 1916.   

Jul 27   Asfa Wossen, Crown prince of Ethiopia/son of emperor Haile Selassi on this day in history.   

Jul 27   Charles Fryatt, British capt of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies in the year 1916.   

Jul 28   In the year 1916 david Brown, NYC, director (Jaws, Planet of the Apes)   

Jul 28   In the year 1916 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   On this day in history postal check & Girodienst establishes   

Jul 30   On this day in history g Neujmin discovers asteroid #951 Gaspra   

Jul 30   German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ in the year 1916.   

Jul 30   On this day in history robert van Spaendonk, Dutch resistance fighter   

Jul 31   In the year 1916 sydney Tafler, London England, actor (Too Many Crooks)   

Aug 01   Claude Newberry, S Afr cricket All-rounder (v England 1913-14), dies in the year 1916.   

Aug 01   On this day in history hawaii National Park established   

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of earl Wrightson, Balt Md, singer (Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue)   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of antonio Estevez, composer   

Jan 03   Betty Furness, NYC, actress/consumer activist (Studio 1) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of bernard Greenhouse, American cellist   

Jan 04   Catherina Elisabeth "Tootje" Vreede, portrait painter was born in the year 1916.   

Jan 04   Robert Parrish, Columbus Ga, director (Casino Royale) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of lionel Newman, American film music composer (d. 1989)   

Jan 06   Philip Bezanson, composer was born in the year 1916.   

Jan 03   In the year 1916 death of grenville M. Dodge, American Civil War Union Army Major General (b. 1831)   

Jan 08   On this day in history death of ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860)   

Jan 14   In the year 1916 otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist, dies at 73   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 22   Iwan Knorr, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

Jan 29   Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvils, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

Feb 01   In the year 1916 anton Simon, composer, dies at 65