1916 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1916?
- February 4, 1916 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- February 29, 1916 – Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to fourteen years old.
- April 8, 1916 – In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three, and badly injuring five, spectators.
- April 24, 1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship ship .
- April 29, 1916 – Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
- May 31, 1916 – World War I: Battle of Jutland – The British Grand Fleet under the command of Sir John Jellicoe & Sir David Beatty engage the Kaiserliche Marine under the command of Reinhard Scheer & Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
- June 1, 1916 – Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
- June 29, 1916 – The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
- August 5, 1916 – World War I: Battle of Romani – Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
- August 28, 1916 – World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
- September 7, 1916 – Federal employees win the right to Workers’ compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
- September 17, 1916 – World War I: Manfred von Richthofen (“The Red Baron”), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
- October 7, 1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
- October 16, 1916 – In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
- November 5, 1916 – The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
- November 13, 1916 – Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
- November 21, 1916 – World War I: A mine explodes and sinks HMHS Britannic in the Aegean Sea, killing 30 people.
- November 30, 1916 – Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
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