Page 11: Historical Events In 1916

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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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,