August 1916 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1916 Hawaii National Park established.
• 02 Aug 1916 World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
• 03 Aug 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.
• 04 Aug 1916 Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the US for $25 million
• 07 Aug 1916 WWI: Portugal joins the Allies.
• 09 Aug 1916 Lassen Volcanic National Park is established in California.
• 10 Aug 1916 Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia
• 17 Aug 1916 Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia
• 21 Aug 1916 Peru declares neutrality
• 23 Aug 1916 Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years
• 25 Aug 1916 US Congress establishes the National Park Service as part of the Department of the Interior.
• 26 Aug 1916 Yanks turn triple-play beating Browns 10-6
• 27 Aug 1916 Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.
• 28 Aug 1916 World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
• 29 Aug 1916 Transportship Hsin-Yu and cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1000 die
• 30 Aug 1916 Paul von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany.

Famous Birthday

• Léo Ferré

  Monegasque poet, composer and a dynamic and controversial live performer whose career in France dominated the years after the Second World...

• Gilles Martinet

  French journalist, politician and left-wing intellectual.

• Anne Hébert

  Canadian author and poet (d. 2000).

• Camille Hilaire

  Metz Painters.

• Bill Hardie

  Scottish pro fiddler and teacher, with his first BBC broadcast at age 16.

• Martha Raye

  American entertainer, a zestful, boisterous comedienne with a huge, elastic mouth and zany antics.

• Van Johnson

  American actor, a boyish looking red head who played in some 125 films in the '40s and '50s.

• Henry Rothblatt

  American attorney, famed as the defense attorney for such myriad cases as Xaviera (Happy Hooker) Hollander, four Watergate burglars and...

• George Montgomery

  American actor stuntman director and producer (d. 2000).

• Geoffrey Keen
• Dom Mintoff

  Maltese journalist and politician 8th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 2012).

• Harold Ayer
• George Montgomery

  American actor stuntman director and producer (d. 2000).

• Carl A Gerstacker
• Dudley Ervin Faver
• Ulrich Prager

  German entrepreneur, the owner of a hotel chain.

• Frederick C Robbins
• Clement WK Mundle
• Andrew Watt Kay
• Frederick Knott
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Famous Deaths

• Edward D Pain

  English journalist (NY World), dies in battle at 36.

• Roger Casement

  Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), executed 51.

• George Sainton Kaye Butterworth

  Composer, dies at 31.

• Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli

  Composer, dies at 46.

• Charles E Manning

  Australian judge / major, dies in battle at 36.

• Fritz Steinbach

  Composer, dies at 61.

• Francis W Warre-Cornish

  Engl vice-provost of Eton (1893-1916).

• Sir Roger Casement

  Irish rebel (hanged) (Born 1864).

• Hamish MacCunn

  Scottish musician, a conductor, composer and writer of operas, overtures and choir works.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Gladys Rice & Walter Van Brunt - Babes in the Wood
2. Nora Bayes - Hello, Hawaii, How Are You?
3. Alma Gluck - The Nightingale Song
4. Lucy Isabelle Marsh - Just A-Wearyin' for You
5. Geoffrey O'Hara - They Made it Twice as Nice as Paradise (And They Called it Dixieland)