1916 | ||
1916 01 01 | The first successful blood transfusion using stored blood | |
1916 01 01 | “Back Home in Tennessee” Prince’s Orchestra | |
1916 01 03 | Maxene Andrews born. | |
1916 01 03 | Betty Furness born. | |
1916 01 04 | Lionel Newman born. | |
1916 01 08 | “America, I Love You” Sam Ash | |
1916 01 08 | “I Think We've Got Another Washington (Wilson is His Name)” Peerless Quartet | |
1916 01 08 | “Noche Serena (Calm Night)” Emilio de Gogorza | |
1916 01 08 | “When You’re in Love with Someone Who is Not in Love with You” Henry Burr and Helen Clark | |
1916 01 09 | WAR WORLD WAR I: Gallipoli Campaign: The last British troops evacuated. | |
1916 01 09 | Vic Mizzy born. | |
1916 01 09 | Fatty and Mabel Adrift (film) premiers. | |
1916 01 10 | Sybil (play) premiers. | |
1916 01 12 | Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke awarded the Pour le Mérite. | |
1916 01 13 | WAR WORLD WAR I: Battle of Wadi: Ottoman Empire defeats Allied British. | |
1916 01 13 | Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company founded. | |
1916 01 17 | Arthur V. Johnson dies. | |
1916 01 18 | First flight of the Junkers J.1 | |
1916 01 22 | “Along the Rocky Road to Dublin” American Quartet | |
1916 01 22 | “Somewhere a Voice is Calling” John McCormack | |
1916 01 24 | The temperature in Browning, Montana, drops from 6.7°C to -48.8°C in one day. | |
1916 01 24 | Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad: U.S. Supreme Court upholds national income tax. | |
1916 01 29 | WAR WORLD WAR I: Paris bombed by German zeppelins. | |
1916 01 31 | WAR WORLD WAR I: An attack is planned on Verdun. | |
1916 01 31 | WAR WORLD WAR I: German airships resume bombing United Kingdom. | |
1916 01 XX | WAR WORLD WAR I: 10 of 16 Royal Flying Corps crash. | |
1916 02 01 | 4 | Symphony No. 4 by Carl Nielsen premieres. |
1916 02 03 | Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada are burned down. | |
1916 02 03 | Farmer Al Falfa’s Cat-Tastrophe produced by Paul Terry. | |
1916 02 05 | “Perfect Day” The Imperial Quartet of Chicago | |
1916 02 06 | WAR WORLD WAR I: Ottoman ship Irmingard sunk. | |
1916 02 09 | The art movement Dada begins. | |
1916 02 09 | “He’s Got a Bungalow” Arthur Fields | |
1916 02 09 | Sopwith Pup flown by Harry Hawker. | |
1916 02 11 | Emma Goldman arrested. | |
1916 02 11 | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs its first concert. | |
1916 02 11 | Sportul Studențesc founded. | |
1916 02 12 | “Araby” Harry Macdonough | |
1916 02 12 | “Is There Still Room for Me ’Neath the Old Apple Tree?” Henry Burr & Albert Campbell | |
1916 02 12 | “M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)” Henry Burr | |
1916 02 12 | “When Old Bill Bailey Plays the Ukelele” The Peerless Quartet | |
1916 02 14 | Sally Gray born. | |
1916 02 14 | 小林 正樹 (Masaki Kobayashi) born. | |
1916 02 17 | Robinson Crusoe, Jr. (play) opens. | |
1916 02 19 | “Cohen Telephones from Brighton” Joe Hayman | |
1916 02 21 | WAR WORLD WAR I: Battle of Verdun begins. | |
1916 02 26 | Jean Navarre forces down a German aircraft and later shoots down a German bomber. | |
1916 02 26 | John Herbert “Jackie” Gleason born. | |
1916 02 26 | “Beatrice Fairfax, Tell Me What to Do!” Ada Jones | |
1916 02 26 | “The Wedding of the Sunshine and the Rose” Henry Burr & Albert Campbell | |
1916 02 29 | Frances Rose “Dinah” Shore born. | |
1916 02 XX | Airco DH.2 (aircraft) enters service. | |
1916 02 XX | Gotha UWD (aircraft) enters service. | |
1916 02 XX | Frau Eva (film) premiers. | |
1916 02 XX | Sally in Our Alley (film) premiers. | |
1916 02 XX | WAR WORLD WAR I: KEK units (Kampfeinsitzer Kommando) are first used. | |
1916 02 XX | WAR WORLD WAR I: Major T. C. Higgins becomes the commanding officer of the Royal Flying Corps’s No. 19 Reserve Squadron at Hounslow. | |
1916 03 01 | Liljevalchs konsthall (art gallery) inaugurated. | |
1916 03 01 | National Library of Wales, transfer of collection completed. | |
1916 03 04 | “Go to Sleep, My Dusky Baby” Olive Kline, Elsie Baker & Marguerite Dunlap | |
1916 03 05 | Hell’s Hinges (film) premieres | |
1916 03 07 | BMW (Die Bayerischen Motoren Werke) founded. | |
1916 03 08 | WAR MEXICAN REVOLUTION: Battle of Columbus, 108 dead. | |
1916 03 11 | “Everybody” Bert Williams | |
1916 03 11 | “The Old Folks at Home” Taylor Trio | |
1916 03 12 | The Habit of Happiness (film) premiers. | |
1916 03 15 | WAR MEXICAN REVOLUTION: Pancho Villa Expedition | |
1916 03 15 | Harry James born. | |
1916 03 17 | Mercedes McCambridge born. | |
1916 03 18 | WAR WORLD WAR I: German flying ace Ernst Udet scores his first kill. | |
1916 03 18 | “Neapolitan Love Song” Reinald Werrenrath | |
1916 03 22 | Emperor of China, 袁世凱 (Yuan Shikai), abdicates the throne. | |
1916 03 22 | J. R. R. Tolkien marries Edith Bratt. | |
1916 03 24 | WAR WORLD WAR I: French ferry SS Sussex torpedoed. | |
1916 03 25 | “M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)” George Wilton Ballard | |
1916 03 25 | “My Mother’s Rosary” Henry Burr | |
1916 03 25 | “The Lights of My Home Town” The Peerless Quartet | |
1916 03 26 | Sterling Hayden born. | |
1916 03 26 | Hoodoo Ann (film) premiers. | |
1916 03 31 1916 04 01 |
WAR WORLD WAR I: Seven German Navy Zeppelins attempt to bomb London. | |
1916 11 19 | Ruth Law sets new distance record for cross-country flight at 590 miles (950 km). | |
1916 11 19 | Goldwyn Pictures established. | |
1916 11 20 | Evelyn Keyes born. | |
1916 11 21 | WAR WORLD WAR I: HMHS Britannic sinks. | |
1916 11 21 | WAR WORLD WAR I: Breguet 14 (aircraft) completes its first flight. | |
1916 11 22 | Jack London dies. | |
1916 11 22 | WAR WORLD WAR I: Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 completes its first flight. | |
1916 11 23 |
WAR WORLD WAR I: Battle of Bucharest begins. | |
1916 11 23 | WAR WORLD WAR I: Lanoe Hawker shot down. | |
1916 11 27 | British airship R.9 completes its first flight. | |
1916 11 28 | WAR WORLD WAR I: German airplane bombs London. | |
1916 11 29 | Follow Me (play) opens. | |
1916 11 30 | Dorrit Weixler dies. | |
1916 11 XX | Sopwith Triplane enters into service. | |
1916 11 XX | Disraeli (film) released. |