December 1916 calendar

Events

• 02 Dec 1916 Baseballers who are injured now get full pay for duration of contract.
• 06 Dec 1916 German army under General Mackensen occupies Bucharest.
• 07 Dec 1916 David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British Prime Minister.
• 11 Dec 1916 David Lloyd George forms British war government.
• 12 Dec 1916 Worst train disaster ever (Modane France-543 killed)
• 13 Dec 1916 Esme Stuart Lennox Robinsons premieres in Dublin.
• 15 Dec 1916 French defeat Germans in WWI Battle of Verdun.
• 17 Dec 1916 Grigori Rasputin is murdered.
• 18 Dec 1916 World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of Staff Erich Von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French and British, and suffer 337,000 casualties.
• 19 Dec 1916 Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo.
• 22 Dec 1916 The British Sopwith Camel aircraft makes its maiden flight. It was designed to counter the German's Fokker aircraft.
• 23 Dec 1916 World War I: Battle of Magdhaba : Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
• 30 Dec 1916 The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.
• 31 Dec 1916 Oxycodone, a narcotic painkiller closely related to codeine is first synthesized in Germany.
• 18 Dec 1916 World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when the second French offensive pushes the Germans back two or three kilometres, causing them to cease their attacks.

Famous Birthday

• Penelopi Fitzgerald

• Kurk Douglas

• Maurice Wilkins

• Ronne

• Hiliary Koprowski

• Shirley Jackson

• Elmond Wilkins

• Maurion Wilkins

• Hilery Koprowski

• Howard Finster

• John MacLane

• Aydrien Wilkins

• Kirk Douglas

• Maurice Wilkins

• Betty Grable

• Ahmed Ben Bella
• Earlyne Chaney

• Shirley Jackson

• Pérez Prado

• Dino Risi

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Famous Deaths

• Alice Ball

• Oiva Kallio

• Antonin Mercié

• Gregorio Cortez

• Jabez Balfour

• Hugo Munsterberg

• Thibaw Min

• Charles de Foucauld

• Eduard Strauss

• Albert Chmielowski

• Grigori Rasputin

• Arthur Morgan

• Natsume Sōseki

• Grigori Rasputin

• Ognjeslav Kostovic Stepanovic

• St Albert Chmielowski

• P Paul Leroy-Beaulieu French economist (Economist France)

• Grigori Efimovich Rasputin

• Grigori Rasputin

• Manuel Giro composer

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Morton Harvey - Turn Back the Universe and Give Me Yesterday
2. Marion Harris - I'm Gonna Make Hay While the Sun Shines in Virginia
3. Al Jolson - I'm Saving Up the Means to Get to New Orleans
4. Walter Van Brunt - I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen
5. Sterling Trio - In Florida Among the Palms