Page 13: Historical Events In 1916

Aug 26   Phila A's Bullet Joe Bush no-hits Cleve, 5-0 in the year 1916.   

Aug 26   In the year 1916 sgt. Reginald Stanley JUDSON, 1st Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Bapaume, France   

Aug 27   In the year 1916 martha Raye, [Margaret Reed], Butte Mont, actress (Martha Raye Show)   

Aug 27   In the year 1916 romania declares war on Austria-Hungary   

Aug 28   On this day in history c Wright Mills, sociologist, writer (The Power Elite) [or May 28]   

Aug 28   In the year 1916 francis W Warre-Cornish, Engl vice-provost of Eton (1893-1916), dies   

Aug 28   Germany declares war on Romania in the year 1916.   

Aug 28   On this day in history italy declares war against Germany during WW I   

Aug 29   Congress creates US Naval reserve in the year 1916.   

Aug 29   George Montgomery, Brady Mont, actor (Battle of Bulge, Hallucination) in the year 1916.   

Aug 29   Steamer 'Hsin Iu' sinks off China coast, 1,000 drown in the year 1916.   

Aug 30   Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0 on this day in history.   

Aug 30   John Thoday, geneticist on this day in history.   

Aug 30   On this day in history paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany   

Aug 31   Daniel Schorr, broadcast journalist (CBS) on this day in history.   

Aug 31   Oscar Asche's musical "Chu Chin Chow," premieres in London in the year 1916.   

Sep 01   On this day in history bulgaria declares war on Romania   

Sep 01   On this day in history keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)   

Sep 01   Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner on this day in history.   

Sep 02   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

Sep 03   Memphis Slim, [Peter Chatman], rocker on this day in history.   

Sep 04   Christy Mathewson & Mordecai Brown final baseball game in the year 1916.   

Sep 04   Christy Mathewson &Mordecai Brown final baseball game on this day in history.   

Sep 04   Robert [Augustine] W[ard] Lowndes, US, sci-fi author (Puzzle Planet) in the year 1916.   

Sep 05   36th US Mens Tennis: R N Williams III beats Johnston (46 64 06 62 64) in the year 1916.   

Sep 06   Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, English landowner on this day in history.   

Sep 07   Giants beat Brooklyn 4-1, to launch NY's record 26-game winning streak in the year 1916.   

Sep 10   On this day in history friedrich Gernsheim, composer, dies at 77   

Sep 10   On this day in history 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 in the year 1916.   

Sep 11   German troops conquer Kavalla Greece in the year 1916.   

Sep 13   In the year 1916 roald Dahl, Norway, sci-fi author (Over to You, Taste, 2 Fables)   

Sep 14   Christy Mathewson pitches & wins his final game in the year 1916.   

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Jan 01   Earl Wrightson, Balt Md, singer (Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Antonio Estevez, composer was born in the year 1916.   

Jan 03   Betty Furness, NYC, actress/consumer activist (Studio 1) was born in the year 1916.   

Jan 03   Bernard Greenhouse, American cellist was born on this day in history.   

Jan 04   Catherina Elisabeth "Tootje" Vreede, portrait painter was born on this day in history.   

Jan 04   In the year 1916 birth of robert Parrish, Columbus Ga, director (Casino Royale)   

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

Jan 06   Philip Bezanson, composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Grenville M. Dodge, American Civil War Union Army Major General (b. 1831) died on this day in history.   

Jan 08   In the year 1916 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   Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer (b. 1850) died on this day in history.   

Jan 16   Arnold Aletrino, Dut physician-criminologist (From Death), dies at 57 in the year 1916.   

Jan 22   On this day in history iwan Knorr, composer, dies at 63   

Jan 29   In the year 1916 edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvils, composer, dies at 62   

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