Notable Historical Events - 1916
1916 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
1st football game in Rose Bowl (Washington State-Brown) |
Jan 1 |
1st issue of "Journal of Negro History" published |
Jan 5 |
Austria-Hungary offensive against Montenegro |
Jan 7 |
German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun |
Jan 7 |
In response to pressure from President Wilson, Germany notifies the State Department that it will abide by strict international rules of maritime warfare |
Jan 8 |
World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli. |
Jan 9 |
The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops are evacuated. |
Jan 10 |
Russian offensive in Kaukasus |
Jan 10 |
In retaliation for President Wilson's recognition of the Carranza government, members of Pacho Villa's revolutionary army take 17 American mining engineers from a train and shoot 16 of them in cold blood |
Jan 11 |
French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu |
Jan 12 |
Britain proclaims Gilbert & Ellice Is colony in Pacific |
Jan 14 |
Dutch Zuiderzee dyke cracks |
Jan 17 |
1st PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Siwanoy CC Bronxville NY |
Jan 17 |
Professional Golfer Association (PGA) forms in NYC |
Jan 18 |
A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite stikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri. |
Jan 23 |
Temp falls from 44°F (7°C) to -56°F (49°C) night of 23-24, Browning MT |
Jan 24 |
The Military Service Bill, calling for conscription of men for war services, passes in the British House of Commons |
Jan 25 |
Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary |
Jan 27 |
Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin |
Jan 28 |
1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson |
Jan 28 |
German colony of Cameroon surrenders to Britain & France |
Jan 28 |
Opera "Goyescas," premieres (NYC) |
Jan 29 |
1st bombing of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place |
Jan 31 |
Dutch Girl Guides form |
Feb 3 |
Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down |
Feb 3 |
Tristan Tzara publishes the Dada manifesto in Zurich Switzerland |
Feb 5 |
Enrico Caruso recorded "O Solo Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Co |
Feb 8 |
French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374 |
Feb 8 |
NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25 cent seats |
Feb 9 |
Britain's military service act enforced (conscription) |
Feb 9 |
NL votes down a proposal by Giants, Braves, & Cubs to increase club player limit from 21 to 22 (The Reds want to decrease to 20) |
Feb 10 |
Military conscription begins in Britain |
Feb 11 |
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert |
Feb 11 |
Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control |
Feb 11 |
Germany and Austria-Hungary notify the US that they will sink any armed merchant ships starting on 1 March |
Feb 12 |
1st edition of Joseph Patterson/Sidney Smith strip "Gumps" |
Feb 15 |
NY Yankees buy Frank "Home Run" Baker from the Athletics for $37,500 |
Feb 16 |
Russian troops conquer the Ottoman Empire city of Erzurum during WWI |
Feb 16 |
The US rejects the right of Germany and Austria-Hungary to sink armed merchant ships |
Feb 16 |
The German ambassador in Washington announces that Germany will pay an indemnity for American lives lost on the Lusitania |
Feb 17 |
Romberg/Hanley/Atteridge/Smith' musical premieres in NYC |
Feb 18 |
The last German garrison in the German colony of Cameroons surrenders |
Feb 21 |
Battle of Verdun in WW I begins (1 million casualties) |
Feb 22 |
The House-Grey Memorandum, drafted by US and Britain, states: 'Should the Allies accept [the American idea of a conference to end the war] and should Germany refuse it, the United States would "probably" enter the war against Germany' |
Feb 23 |
Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin |
Feb 23 |
French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun |
Feb 25 |
German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun |
Feb 26 |
Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930 |
Feb 26 |
Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract |
Feb 26 |
Russian troops conquer Kermansjah Persia |
Mar 1 |
Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic |
Mar 8 |
US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime |
Mar 9 |
Mexican General Francisco "Pancho" Villa invades US (18 killed) |
Mar 9 |
Germany declares war against Portugal |
Mar 12 |
French airship sinks British submarine D3 |
Mar 14 |
Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun |
Mar 15 |
Dutch merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed by German submarine & sinks in North Sea |
Mar 15 |
Gen Pershing and 15,000 troops chase Villa into Mexico; they stay 10 for 10 months |
Mar 15 |
University of Gent goes under Dutch control |
Mar 16 |
James Barries' "Kiss for Cinderella" premieres in London |
Mar 16 |
US & Canada sign migratory bird treaty |
Mar 20 |
Allies attack Zeebrugge Belgium |
Mar 21 |
JP Van Limburg Stirum succeeds AWF Idenburg as gov-gen of Neth Indies |
Mar 24 |
German submarines torpedo the French Channel packet 'Sussex' which is unarmed |
Mar 25 |
Heavyweight Jess Willard & Franc Moran fight to no decision in NYC |
Mar 25 |
Jess Willard fights Frank Moran to no decision in 10 for boxing title |
Mar 25 |
Women are allowed to attend a boxing match |
Mar 26 |
Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary |
Mar 30 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens (NHA) beat Portland Rosebuds (PCHA), 3 games to 2 |
Mar 31 |
Dutch government ends all military engagements |
Apr 1 |
1st US national women's swiming championships held |
Apr 2 |
German troops overtake Bois de Caillette |
Apr 2 |
57 armed New Zealand police invade the remote Ngāi Tūhoe settlement of Maungapōhatu in the Urewera Ranges to arrest the Māori prophet Rua Kēnana |
Apr 4 |
US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WW I |
Apr 5 |
French troops occupy Bois de Caillette |
Apr 6 |
German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare |
Apr 8 |
Norway approves active & passive female suffrage |
Apr 8 |
In Corona, California, racecar driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three and badly injuring five spectators. |
Apr 9 |
The Libau sets sail from Germany with a cargo of 20,000 rifles to assist Irish republicans; Captain Karl Spindler changes the name of the vessel to the Aud to avoid British detection |
Apr 10 |
1st professional golf tournament held |
Apr 10 |
The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City. |
Apr 12 |
Irish nationalist activist and poet Roger Casement boards submarine U-19 at Wilmshaven, Germany, bound for a rendezvous with the Aud at Tralee |
Apr 18 |
US Secretary of State Warns Germany that the USA may break diplomatic relations unless torpedo attacks on unarmed ships stop |
Apr 19 |
"Bing Boys are Here" opens in London |
Apr 19 |
20th Boston Marathon won by Arthur Roth of Mass in 2:27:16.4 |
Apr 19 |
Italians troops conquer Col di Lana at Merano |
Apr 19 |
Alderman Kelly reads the 'Castle Order' to a meeting of Dublin Corporation; this forged document supposedly from Dublin Castle, indicated that there was to be mass arrests of Irish Volunteers to prevent "trouble" |
Apr 20 |
German-British sea battle off Belgian coast |
Apr 20 |
Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) in Chicago opens, Cubs beat Cin Reds 7-6 |
Apr 21 |
Sir Roger Casement, an Ulster Protestant and ardent Irish nationalist, lands on the coast from a German submarine; he attempts to get German aid for an uprising against the British |
Apr 21 |
Irish nationalist activist and poet Roger Casement is discovered at McKenna's Fort and is arrested by the Royal Irish Constabulary |
Apr 21 |
The Aud, carrying a cargo of 20,000 rifles to assist Irish republicans in staging what would become the 1916 Rising, is captured by the British Navy and forced to sail towards Cork Harbour |
Apr 22 |
France battles at Fort Douaumont |
Apr 22 |
Karl Spindler scuttles the Aud near Daunt's Rock, to prevent its cargo of 20,000 rifles destined for Irish republicans falling into enemy hands |
Apr 22 |
Chief of Staff of the Irish Volunteers Eóin MacNeill issues the Countermanding order in Dublin to try to stop what would become the Easter Rising |
Apr 23 |
Lord Dunsany's "Night at an Inn" premieres in NYC |
Apr 24 |
Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins |
Apr 24 |
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 ice-trapped ship Endurance |
Apr 27 |
The British renew their assault on the Irish Volunteer position in Mount Street; shelling also sets the buildings on fire |
Apr 29 |
Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin |
Apr 30 |
Chicago Cubs play 1st game at Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) beat Reds |
May 2 |
US president Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act |
May 2 |
2nd Ave & Bronx Terrace renamed Bronx Blvd; Seward Pl renamed Sycamore Ave; Herald Ave renamed Dickinson Ave; Monroe & Selwyn Avenue named |
May 3 |
Irish Nationalists Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas Clarke are executed by firing squad following their involvement in the Easter Rising |
May 4 |
At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare |
May 4 |
Ned Daly, Willie Pearse, Michael O'Hanrahan and Joseph Plunkett are executed by British authorities following the Easter Rising, at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin |
May 5 |
US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924 |
May 6 |
Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa |
May 8 |
German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes |
May 8 |
Irishmen Eamon Kent, Michael Mallin, Con Colbert and Sean Houston are executed by British authorities following the Easter Rising at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin |
May 9 |
British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey |
May 10 |
Disastrous fire in Ellendale, ND |
May 10 |
Historic Shipport Museum opens in Amsterdam |
May 12 |
James Connolly and Sean McDermott are executed following their involvement in the Easter Rising in Dublin |
May 13 |
1st observance of Indian (Native American) Day |
May 13 |
42nd Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard George Smith wins in 2:04 |
May 15 |
Asiago, Italy, falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front |
May 15 |
Claiming that the USA must act to quell dangerous disorder, the government orders US Marines to land in Santo Domingo; the American occupation will continue until 1924 |
May 16 |
41st Preakness: Linus McAtee aboard Damrosch wins in 1:54.8 |
May 17 |
British Summer Time (Daylight Savings) introduced |
May 18 |
US pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft |
May 18 |
A British Royal Inquiry into the Easter Rising in Dublin is set up in London |
May 19 |
Escadrille Américaine (Lafayette) transfered to Verdun |
May 20 |
Codell, Kansas hit by tornado (also on same date in 1917 & 1918) |
May 20 |
Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting |
May 21 |
Britain begins "Summer Time" (daylight saving time) |
May 22 |
French troops occupy parts of Fort Douaumont Verdun |
May 23 |
Heavy battles at Fort Douaumont Verdun |
May 24 |
Conscription begins in Britain |
May 24 |
French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured |
May 24 |
Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname |
May 24 |
US pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker |
May 27 |
Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in Bronx |
May 27 |
President Wilson addresses the League to Enforce Peace, founded in 1915, and gives public support to the idea of a league of nations |
May 29 |
NY Giants win 17th consecutive road game |
May 29 |
Official flag of president of US adopted |
May 29 |
US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924 |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Dario Resta wins in 3:34:16.990 (135.187 km/h) |
May 31 |
Battle of Jutland (Skagerrak): naval battle betwwen British Grand Fleet and German High Seas Fleet: 10,000 die in this inconcluisve slaughter |
May 31 |
British battle cruiser HMS Invincible explodes, killing all but 6 (Battle of Jutland) |
Jun 1 |
German attack on Fort Vaux, Verdun |
Jun 2 |
German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux |
Jun 3 |
US National Defense Act establishes Reserve Officers Training Corps |
Jun 4 |
General Aleksei Brusilov begins a massive Russian offensive on the Eastern Front (WWI) |
Jun 5 |
The Sherif Hussein proclaims a revolt of the Arabs in the province of Hejaz, an action that undermines the Turkish Empire |
Jun 6 |
Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage |
Jun 6 |
With the death of Yuan Shikai, who has ruled much of China since 1912, the central government virtually collapses in the face of warlords who assert themselves, including Sun Yat-Sen |
Jun 7 |
Theodore Roosevelt declines nomination of the Progressive Party and throws his support behind Republican Charles Evans Hughes |
Jun 7 |
Germany troop march into Fort Faux, Verdun |
Jun 10 |
48th Belmont: E Haynes aboard Friar Rock wins in 2:22 |
Jun 10 |
Great Arab Revolt begins against ruling Ottoman turks |
Jun 12 |
30th US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beats Louise Raymond (6-0 6-1) |
Jun 12 |
Tennis legend Bill Tilden's 1st appearance at US tennis championship |
Jun 14 |
The Democratic Convention convenes in St Louis; Wilson campaigns on the slogan 'he kept out out of the war' |
Jun 14 |
Representatives of eight Allied nations hold an economic conference in Paris at which they discuss ways to cripple their enemies economic power during and after the war |
Jun 15 |
Boys Scouts of America forms |
Jun 16 |
Boston Brave's Tom Hughes 2nd no-hitter beats Pitts, 2-0 |
Jun 16 |
Passing of the Military Services Bill introduces conscription in New Zealand |
Jun 17 |
1st national congress of Sarekat Islam at Bandoeng Java |
Jun 17 |
US troops under Gen Pershing march into Mexico |
Jun 18 |
Yanks score in every inning but 8th to beat Indians 19-3 in baseball |
Jun 21 |
Boston Rube Forster no-hits NY Yankees, 2-0 |
Jun 21 |
Mexican troops beat US expeditionary force under Gen Pershing |
Jun 21 |
President Carranza orders his troops to oppose American soldiers at Carrazil, Mexico; 18 American soldiers are killed or wounded |
Jun 24 |
Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract. |
Jun 25 |
Russian Tsar Nicolaas II fires minister of Foreign affairs Sasonov |
Jun 26 |
Cleveland Indians experiment with #s on their jerseys (one game) |
Jun 29 |
Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time |
Jun 30 |
22nd US Golf Open: Chick Evans shoots a 286 at Minikahda Club MINN |
Jun 30 |
General Douglas Haig reports "The men are in splendid spirits" |
Jul 1 |
British court martial (Easter uprising) |
Jul 1 |
Coca-Cola brings current coke formula to the market |
Jul 1 |
Honus Wagner, 42, is oldest to hit an inside-the-park HR |
Jul 1 |
First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffers its worst day, losing 19,240 men (WWI) |
Jul 2 |
Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism |
Jul 2 |
Russian offensive in Armenia |
Jul 3 |
1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near NJ shore (4 die) |
Jul 7 |
The New Zealand Labour party is formed |
Jul 9 |
1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in US from Germany |
Jul 11 |
Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act |
Jul 11 |
Germany launches final offensive in the Battle of Verdun |
Jul 14 |
33.6 cm rainfall at Effingham SC (state record) |
Jul 14 |
St Louis Brown Ernie Koob pitches all 17 inns in a 0-0 tie vs Boston |
Jul 15 |
22.22" (56.4 cm) of rain falls in Altapass NC (state record) |
Jul 15 |
Boeing Company (Pacific Aero) formed by William Boeing in Seattle Wash |
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 25 |
Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks |
Jul 26 |
The US Protests the 'Blacklist' issued by the British forbidding trade with some 30 US firms |
Jul 29 |
Postal check & Girodienst establishes |
Jul 30 |
German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ |
Aug 1 |
Hawaii National Park forms |
Aug 2 |
World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto. |
Aug 4 |
Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the US for $25 million |
Aug 4 |
The Turks attack the British line at Romani in the northern Sinai (WWI) |
Aug 8 |
A's set AL record with 19th consecutive loss on road |
Aug 10 |
Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia |
Aug 12 |
Picasso, Max Jacob, Kisling, Ortiz & Paquerette photographed in Paris |
Aug 17 |
Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia |
Aug 21 |
Sir Roger Casement, an Ulster Protestant and ardent Irish nationalist, arrested by the British |
Aug 23 |
Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years |
Aug 25 |
US Department of Interior forms National Park Service |
Aug 26 |
Phila A's Bullet Joe Bush no-hits Cleve, 5-0 |
Aug 26 |
Yanks turn triple-play beating Browns 10-6 |
Aug 27 |
Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary |
Aug 28 |
Germany declares war on Romania |
Aug 28 |
Italy declares war against Germany during WW I |
Aug 29 |
Congress creates US Naval Reserve |
Aug 29 |
Transportship Hsin-Yu & cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1000 die |
Aug 29 |
US Congress accept Jones Act: Philippines independence |
Aug 29 |
General Paul Von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff |
Aug 30 |
Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0 |
Aug 31 |
Oscar Asche's musical "Chu Chin Chow" premieres in London |
Sep 1 |
Bulgaria declares war on Romania |
Sep 1 |
US Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce) |
Sep 3 |
Allies turned back Germans in Battle of Verdun |
Sep 3 |
US President Wilson signs Adamson Act, providing an 8-hour day on interstate railroads, preventing a national railroad strike |
Sep 4 |
Christy Mathewson & Mordecai Brown final baseball game |
Sep 5 |
36th US Men's Tennis: R N Williams III beats Johnston (4-6 6-4 0-6 6-2 6-4) |
Sep 7 |
Giants beat Brooklyn 4-1, to launch NY's record 26-game winning streak |
Sep 7 |
Workmen's Compensation Act passed by Congress |
Sep 8 |
US President Wilson signs the Emergency Revenue Act, doubling the rate of income tax and adding inheritance and munitions profits tax |
Sep 11 |
German troops conquer Kavalla Greece |
Sep 11 |
The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses during reconstruction, killing 11 men, following initially total collapsed on August 29, 1907. |
Sep 14 |
Christy Mathewson pitches & wins his final game |
Sep 15 |
Debut of tanks in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flers-Courcelette (part of the Battle of the Somme) |
Sep 17 |
40,000 Amsterdam demonstrators demand general voting right |
Sep 17 |
World War I: Manfred von Richthofen [The Red Baron], a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France. |
Sep 19 |
First landing at Schiphol Airport, Netherlands (Farman F-22 of Soesterberg) |
Sep 19 |
Belgian troops conquer Tabora, German East Africa |
Sep 24 |
Indians' Marty Kavanaugh, hits AL's 1st pinch-hit grand slam |
Sep 26 |
Bishop speak against Catholics in trade unions |
Sep 27 |
1st Native American Day celebrated, honoring American Indians |
Sep 27 |
Emperor Lidj Jasu of Ethiopia flees |
Sep 27 |
Iyasu is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zauditu. |
Sep 29 |
John D Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire. |
Sep 30 |
Giants lose to Braves 8-3, ends 26 consecutive win streak |
Sep 30 |
Eleftherios Venizelos announces he is forming a Provisional Government in Crete as an alternative to the one in Athens; he is determined to bring Greece into the war on the side of the Allies |
Oct 2 |
Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 16th shutout of year |
Oct 2 |
San Diego Zoo founded |
Oct 4 |
Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time |
Oct 5 |
Soldier Adolf Hitler is injured |
Oct 7 |
Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeat Cumberland 222-0, the most lopsided score in the history of college football |
Oct 7 |
The German submarine U-53 arrives off Newport, Rhode Island, and sinks 9 British merchant ships in international waters |
Oct 9 |
Babe Ruth begins 29 2/3 scoreless World Series innings |
Oct 10 |
In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5-up from $3 |
Oct 12 |
Boston Red Sox beat Bkln Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 13th World Series |
Oct 14 |
Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee University refused to play against a black person. |
Oct 14 |
The Perm State University was founded in Russia. |
Oct 16 |
Dodger manager Wilbert Robinson given $5,000 bonus |
Oct 16 |
Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (46 Amboy St, Bkln) |
Oct 16 |
T E Lawrence (of Arabia) meets with Fasal Hoessein |
Oct 17 |
Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage |
Oct 19 |
France extends formal recognition of the Provisional Government in Crete proclaimed Eleftherios Venizelos |
Oct 24 |
Moroccan troops capture Ft Douaumont |
Oct 26 |
Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control) |
Oct 27 |
1st published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety) |
Oct 27 |
Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu. |
Oct 28 |
Australian government holds a national referendum seeking support for the proposal of compulsory conscription; it is rejected |
Oct 31 |
Clare Kummer's "Good Gracious Annabelle" premieres in NYC |
Nov 1 |
Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government. |
Nov 2 |
Ft Vaux, Verdun, reconquered by France |
Nov 3 |
Treaty establishes British suzerainity over Qatar |
Nov 5 |
Emperors Wilhelm II (Germany) and Franz Jozef I (Austria-Hungary) establish the kingdom of Poland |
Nov 5 |
Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage |
Nov 5 |
The Everett Massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between IWW organizers and local police. |
Nov 7 |
Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns Tsar of uprising |
Nov 7 |
Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) elected to Congress as its first woman Representative |
Nov 7 |
Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected US President |
Nov 13 |
British offensive at Ancre, Belgium |
Nov 13 |
Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription. |
Nov 15 |
William George Barker, flying very low over the Ancre River, spots a large concentration of German troops massing for a counter-attack on Beaumont Hamel, and sends an emergency Zone Call brought to bear all available artillery fire in the area onto the specified target. The force of some 4,000 German infantry was effectively broken up, and Barker is awarded the Military Cross |
Nov 16 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Bound East for Cardiff" premieres in NYC |
Nov 16 |
I Berlin/V Herbert/H Blossoms musical premieres in NYC |
Nov 16 |
Russian La Satannaya ammunitions factory explodes, killing 1,000 |
Nov 18 |
General Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme (WWI) - over 1 million killed or wounded |
Nov 19 |
Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers). |
Nov 21 |
HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people. |
Nov 24 |
Mexican and US representatives sign a protocol at Atlantic City, under which Pershing's troops will withdraw and each nation's army will guard the border. President Carranza of Mexico will refuse to accept it |
Nov 26 |
Greece declares war on Germany |
Nov 26 |
Addressing the Chamber of Commerce in Cincinnati, US President Wilson declares that 'The business of neutrality is over. The nature of modern war leaves no state untouched' |
Nov 28 |
1st German air attack on London |
Nov 29 |
US declares martial law in Dominican Republic |
Nov 30 |
Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
Dec 1 |
There is virtual civil war in Greece as royalists fight Venizelist, and the Allies determine on a Venizelist victory |
Dec 2 |
Baseballers who are injured now get full pay for duration of contract |
Dec 6 |
German army under Gen Mackensen occupies Bucharest |
Dec 6 |
World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest. |
Dec 7 |
British government of David Lloyd George forms |
Dec 7 |
David Lloyd George replaces resigning H. H. Asquith as British PM |
Dec 11 |
David Lloyd George forms British war government |
Dec 13 |
Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol |
Dec 13 |
Esme Stuart Lennox Robinsons premieres in Dublin |
Dec 13 |
French chief of staff Joffre replaced by Nivelle |
Dec 15 |
French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun |
Dec 19 |
Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo |
Dec 23 |
World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula. |
Dec 26 |
Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France |
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