Page 13: Historical Events In 1916

Aug 30   Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0   

Aug 30   John Thoday, geneticist   

Aug 30   Paul Von Hindenburg is recorded as becoming chief-of-General-Staff in Germany.   

Aug 31   Daniel Schorr, broadcast journalist (CBS)   

Aug 31   Oscar Asche's musical "Chu Chin Chow," premieres in London   

Sep 01   Bulgaria declares war on Romania.   

Sep 01   Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)   

Sep 01   Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner   

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

Sep 03   Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun   

Sep 03   Memphis Slim, [Peter Chatman], rocker   

Sep 04   Christy Mathewson and Mordecai Brown final baseball game   

Sep 04   Robert [Augustine] W[ard] Lowndes, US, sci-fi author (Puzzle Planet).   

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

Sep 06   Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, English landowner   

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

Sep 10   Friedrich Gernsheim, composer, dies at 77.   

Sep 10   Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician.   

Sep 10   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   German troops conquer Kavalla Greece.   

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

Sep 14   Eric Bentley, England, critic/writer (In Search of Theater)   

Sep 14   In this year, Christy Mathewson pitches and claims his final game   

Sep 14   Josiah Royce, US philosopher (Conception of Immortality), dies   

Sep 15   1st tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France   

Sep 15   inaugural tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France   

Sep 15   Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer, dies at 82   

Sep 15   Margaret Lockwood, Karachi India, actress (Lady Vanishes)   

Sep 15   Sgt. Donal Forrester Brown, 2nd Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at High Wood, Somme France.   

Sep 16   In this year, Prv. John Chipman Kerr (49 Cdn. Infantry Batt.( claims the Victoria Cross at the Somme, France   

Sep 16   Lord Ryder of Eaton hastings, CEO (Intl Publishing House).   

Sep 17   40000 Amsterdam demonstrators demand general voting right.   

Sep 17   Mary [Florence Elinor] Stewart, UK, sci-fi author (Crystal Cave).   

Sep 18   John J Rhodes, (Rep-R-Az).   

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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,