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List of events
Events from the year 1916 in the United States .
Incumbents Events January January – The Journal of Negro History is founded by
Carter G. Woodson , the father of "Black History" and "Negro History Week".
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January 24
In Browning, Montana , the temperature drops from +6.7 °C to −48.8 °C (44 °F to −56 °F) in one day, the greatest change ever on record for a 24-hour period.
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c. January – The Anti-Militarism Committee changes its name to the Anti-Preparedness Committee, later in the year becoming the American Union Against Militarism . February March March 3 – The Original Dixieland Jazz Band begin playing at Schiller's Cafe in
Chicago
March 6 – Newton D. Baker appointed Secretary of War.
March 8–9 – Mexican Revolution : Pancho Villa leads about 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico , killing 12 U.S. soldiers. A garrison of the U.S. 13th Cavalry Regiment fights back and drives them away.
March 15 – territory.
March 16 – Mexican Revolution
The U.S. 7th and 10th Cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the border to join the hunt for Villa.
1st Aero Squadron
carry out reconnaissance over Mexico. April April 20
The Escadrille Américaine ("American Squadron"), later to be known as the French Air Force. Their first aerial victory is claimed on May 18 by
Kiffin Rockwell
The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (modern-day Wrigley Field ), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings. May June July July 1 – The United States Marine Corps take control of Santo Domingo .
July 1–12 – At least one shark mauls five swimmers along 80 miles (130 km) of New Jersey coastline during the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 , resulting in four deaths and the survival of one youth who required limb amputation. This event is the inspiration for author Peter Benchley , over half a century later, to write Jaws
July 8–16 – Massive flooding caused by two ]
July 15 – In The Boeing Company
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July 22 – In would later be wrongfully convicted of the bombing.
July 30 – German agents cause the Black Tom explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey , an act of sabotage destroying an ammunition depot and killing at least seven people. August September September 1 – The child labor
, is passed, but is ruled unconstitutional in 1918.
September 5 – Release of D. W. Griffith 's film Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages
September 6 – The first true self-service grocery store , Piggly Wiggly , is founded in Memphis, Tennessee , by Clarence Saunders (opening 5 days later).
September 7 – The U.S. Shipping Board
(inaugurated January 1917).
September 13 – Mary , a circus elephant , is hanged in the town of Erwin, Tennessee for killing her handler, Walter "Red" Eldridge.
September 30 – Construction is completed on the Hell Gate Bridge in New York City . October October 16 – contraceptives.
[5] This same year, she publishes
What Every Girl Should Know , providing information about such topics as
menstruation November November 1 – The first 40-hour work week
officially begins in the Endicott-Johnson factories of Western New York.
November 5 – Everett massacre : An armed confrontation in Everett, Washington , between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World results in seven deaths.
November 7
November 19 – New York State
. She flies on to New York City the next day.
November 21 – The U.S. rejects a German offer of £10000 per American lost in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania . December Undated Ongoing Births January–June Gregory Peck January 3
January 6 – Eugene Thomas Maleska, American journalist (died
1993 )
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January 9 – Vic Mizzy , television theme composer (died 2009 )
January 14
January 15 – Artie Shapiro , jazz bassist (died 2003 )
January 17 – Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr., politician (died
2011
January 19 – Harry Huskey , computer designer (died 2017 )
January 23 – David Douglas Duncan , photojournalist (died 2018 )
January 24 – Marvin Creamer , sailor (died 2020 )
February 7 – Floyd K. Haskell, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1973 to 1979 (died
1998
February 9 – Tex Hughson , baseball player (died 1993 )
February 10 – Louis Guttman , mathematician (died 1987 )
February 14 – Denham Harman , gerontologist (died 2014 )
February 20 – Jean Erdman , dancer (died 2020 )
February 23 – Retta Scott , animator (died 1990 )
February 26
February 29 – Dinah Shore , popular singer (died 1994 )
March 1 – Emelyn Whiton , Olympic sailor (died 1962 )
March 4 – William Alland , film actor, producer, writer and director (died 1997 )
March 5 – Jack Hamm , cartoonist (died 1996 )
March 13
March 14 – Horton Foote , writer (died 2009 )
March 15
March 16 – Mercedes McCambridge , actress (died 2004 )[11]
March 19 – Irving Wallace , novelist (died 1990 )
March 26 – Christian B. Anfinsen , biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1995 )
March 29 – Eugene McCarthy , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1959 to 1971 (died 2005 )
March 31 – Lucille Bliss , voice actress (died 2012 )
April 3
April 4 – Robert S. McMillan , architect (died 2001 )
April 5
April 12
April 13 – Phyllis Fraser , actress and publisher (died 2006 )
April 16 – Ted Mann , businessman (d. 2001)
April 15 – Alfred S. Bloomingdale , department store heir (died 1982 )
April 20 – Phil Walters , race car driver and pilot (died 2000 )
April 22 – Yehudi Menuhin , violinist (died 1999 )
April 24
April 25 – R. J. Rushdoony , founder of Christian Reconstructionism (died 2001 )
April 26
April 30
May 2 – Two Ton Baker (Richard Baker), entertainer (died 1975 )
May 4 – Jane Jacobs , née Butzner, urban activist (died 2006 in Canada )
May 6
May 10 – Milton Babbitt , composer (died 2011 )
May 21
May 28 – Dorothy McGuire , film actress (died 2001 )
June 3 – Jack Manning , actor (died 2009 )
June 4 – Robert F. Furchgott , biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 2009 )
June 5 – Eddie Joost , baseball player and manager (died 2011 )
June 6 – Jack Miller , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1961 to 1973 (died 1994 )
June 12 – Raúl Héctor Castro , politician (died 2015 )
June 14 – John Ciardi , poet, translator and etymologist (died 1986 )
June 15
June 16 – Phil Chambers , film and television actor (died 1993 )
June 17 – David "Stringbean" Akeman , country music banjo player (died 1973 )
June 24 – William B. Saxbe , politician (died 2010 )June 29
July–December July 1
July 3 – John Kundla , basketball coach (died 2017 )
July 4 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose"), propaganda broadcaster (died 2006 )
July 6 – Harold Norse , writer (died 2009 )
July 8 – Jean Rouverol , actress, screenwriter and author (died 2017 )
July 18
L. Patrick Gray III, Federal Bureau of Investigation director (died
2005 Johnny Hopp , baseball player and coach (d. 2003)
July 19 – Phil Cavarretta , baseball player (died 2010 )
July 25 – Fred Lasswell , cartoonist (died 2001 )
July 27 – Elizabeth Hardwick , literary critic and novelist (died 2007 )
July 28 – David Brown , producer (died 2010 )
July 31 – Bill Todman , game show producer (died 1979 )
August 5 – Kermit Love , puppeteer (died 2008 )
August 14 – Ralph de Toledano , conservationist and author (died 2007 )
August 16 – Iggy Katona , race car driver (died 2003 )
August 21 – Frank O. Braynard, maritime writer and historian (died
2007
August 24 – Hal Smith , actor (died 1994 )
August 25
August 27 – Martha Raye , film actress (died 1994 )
August 28 – Jack Vance , writer (died 2013 )
August 29 – Luther Davis , screenwriter (died 2008 )
August 30 – Shag Crawford , baseball umpire (died 2007 )
August 31
September 1
September 13 – John Malcolm Brinnin , poet and literary critic (died 1998 )
September 15 Frederick C. Weyand , U.S. Army General (died 2010 )
September 18 – John Jacob Rhodes , politician and lawyer (died 2003 )
September 24 – Ruth Leach Amonette , businesswoman (died 2004 )
September 27 – Frank Handlen , marine artist (died 2023 )
October 3 – Shelby Storck , television producer (died 1969 )
October 8 – Spark Matsunaga , U.S. Senator from Hawaii from 1977 to 1990 (died 1990 )
October 9 – Robert Brubaker , television Western actor (died 2010 )
October 12 – Alice Childress , actress, playwright and novelist (died 1994 )
October 28 – Bill Harris , jazz trombonist (died 1973 )
October 29 – Hadda Brooks , pianist, singer and composer (died 2002 )
October 30
Kirk Douglas November 4 – Walter Cronkite , television journalist (died 2009 )
November 5 – Bill Fisk , football player and coach (died 2007 )
November 6 – Ray Conniff , trombonist and bandleader (died 2002 )
November 10 – Billy May , composer and arranger (died 2004 )
November 14 – Sherwood Schwartz , television writer and producer (died 2011 )
November 15 – Bill Melendez , animator (died 2008 )
November 16 – Daws Butler , voice actor (died 1988 )
November 17 – Shelby Foote , historian and novelist, author of The Civil War: A Narrative 2005 )
November 24 – Forrest J. Ackerman, writer (died
2008
November 27 – Chick Hearn , basketball announcer (died 2002 )
November 29 – Fran Ryan , actress (died 2000 )
November 30 – John C. Harkness , architect (died 2016 ) Betty Grable Deaths January 1 – Alfred W. Benson , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1906 to 1907 (born 1843 )
January 9 – Ada Rehan , Shakespearean actress (born 1859 in Ireland )
January 16 – Charles A. Zimmermann , band composer (born 1861 )
January 17
February 3 – Bowman Brown Law , politician (born 1855 )
February 12 – John Townsend Trowbridge , author (born 1827 )
February 28 – Henry James , naturalised English novelist (born 1843 )
March 20
)
Stephen Wallace Dorsey, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1873 to 1879 (born
1842
March 25 – Ishi , last known member of the Yana people (born c. 1860 )
April 11 – Richard Harding Davis , journalist and author (born 1864 )
April 15 – Joanna P. Moore , Baptist missionary and educator (born 1832 )
April 19 – Ephraim Shay , inventor (born 1839 )
April 21 – John Surratt , suspected of involvement in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln , son of Mary Surratt (born 1844 )
May 12 – Fred T. Perris , railroad civil engineer (born 1836 )
May 13
May 29 – James J. Hill , financier (born 1838 )
May 30 – )
June 9 – Richard C. Saufley , naval aviation pioneer, killed in aviation accident (born 1884 )
June 22 – Oliver Ernesto Branch , politician (born 1847 )
June 24 – French Air Force, killed in action (born
1890
June 25 – Thomas Eakins , realist painter (born 1844 )
June – Addison Hutton , architect (born 1834 )
July 3 – Hetty Green , financier and miser (born 1834)
July 4 – Alan Seeger , poet, killed in action (born 1888 )
July 22 – James Whitcomb Riley , poet (born 1849 )
July 23 – Thomas M. Patterson , newspaper publisher and U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1901 to 1907 (born 1839 in Ireland )
August 31 – Martha McClellan Brown , temperance activist (born 1838 )
September 8 – Mayor of Minneapolis (born
1862
September 9 – Sydney Ayres , silent film actor (born 1879 )
October 1 – James Paul Clarke, 18th Governor of Arkansas from 1895 to 1897 and U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1903 to 1916 (born
1854
October 12 – Tony Jannus , aviator and aircraft designer, killed in aviation accident in Russia (born 1889 )
October 25 – William Merritt Chase , Impressionist painter (born 1849 )
October 28 – Cleveland Abbe , meteorologist (born 1838 )
October 29 – John Sebastian Little, politician and congressman (born
1851
October 31 – Charles Taze Russell , Protestant evangelist, forerunner of Jehovah's Witnesses (born 1852 )
November 4 – James D. Moffat , 3rd president of Washington & Jefferson College (born 1846 )
November 10 – Walter Sutton , geneticist and surgeon (born 1877 )
November 13 – Percival Lowell , astronomer (born 1855 )
November 14
November 15 – Molly Elliot Seawell , novelist (born 1860 )
November 22
November 24 – Sir Hiram Maxim , firearms inventor (born 1840 )
November – Charlie Case , vaudeville entertainer (born c. 1860)
December 8 – John Porter Merrell , admiral (born 1846 )
December 20 – William Gilchrist , composer (born 1846)
December 31 – Alice Ball , African-American chemist (born 1892 ) See also References
^ Woodson, Carter G., ed. (January 1916). "The Journal of Negro History " . Project Gutenberg . I . Retrieved 2013-05-21 . ^ "Chartered Organizations and the Boy Scouts of America" . www.scouting.org . Archived from the original on 17 March 2008. Retrieved 17 January 2022 .^ The selected papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 1 : The Woman Rebel, 1900–1928 . University of Illinois Press. 2003. p. 199.^ Baker, Jean H. (2011). Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion . Macmillan. p. 115. . ^ Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, Inc. , Bloomberg Businessweek ^ "The long legacy of the U.S. occupation of Haiti" . Washington Post . Retrieved 19 August 2022 .^ Barron, James (August 5, 1993). "Eugene T. Maleska, Crossword Editor, Dies at 77" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2009-03-08 . ^ "Glen Simmons - Glade Skiffs" . Florida Folklife . Historical Museum of Southern Florida. Retrieved 2012-10-20 .. 1940. Retrieved 2012-10-20 . ^ "Mercedes McCambridge, 87, Actress Known for Strong Roles" The New York Times . 18 March 2004. Retrieved 24 October 2021 .
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