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.

Famous Birthday

• Kirk Douglas

  American actor, on-screen from 1946 in some 82 films; thrillers, westerns and costume epics.

• Betty Grable

  American singer, dancer and actress, the most famous "pin-up girl" of WW II.

• Ahmed Ben Bella
• Earlyne Chaney

  American Spiritualist Reverend, founder of "Astara" with her husband Robert.

• Shirley Jackson

  American Gothic novelist, known as the "Virginia Werewolf of séance fiction," a prolific and disciplined writer whose typewriter kept going...

• Pérez Prado

  Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter pianist and bandleader (d. 1989).

• Dino Risi

  Italian film critic, scriptwriter and film director, specializing in Neapolitan-style humor movies.

• Francisco Jr Armendariz
• Richard Fleischer

  American director producer and screenwriter (d. 2006).

• Roy Ward Baker

  English film director (d. 2010).

• Rabon Delmore
• Mark Stevens

  Actor.

• Mark Stevens
• Nelly Landry

  Belgian tennis player, she became French citizen after marriage with player Pierre Landry.

• Ely Jacques Kahn Jr
• Nancye Wynne
• Toon Hermans

  Dutch cabaret entertainer, a singer, writer, and comedian.

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  English author and poet (d. 2000).

• Noel Johnson British actor (Frenzy

  Frightmare, Royal Flash).

• Helmut Eder

  composer.

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Famous Deaths

• Grigori Rasputin

  A powerful Russian monk, murdered.

• Grigori J Rasputin

  Russian faith healer / intriguer, murdered at 45.

• Ernst Rudorff

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Grigori Efimovich Rasputin

  Russian monk, assassinated.

• St Albert Chmielowski

  Polish Catholic saint (Born 1845).

• Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld French explorer

  dies at age 58.

• Francesco Paolo Tosti composer

  dies at age 69.

• Hans Richter composer

  dies at age 73.

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

  dies at age 73.

• Manuel Giro composer

  dies at age 68.

• William Wallace Gilchrist composer

  dies at age 70.

• Bernhard Scholz composer

  dies at age 81.

• Eduard Strauss Austrian composer (318 dances)

  dies at age 81.

• Charles de Foucauld

  French religious figure (Born 1858).

• Natsume Soseki

  Japanese novelist (Born 1867).

• Ognjeslav Kostovic Stepanovic

  Serbian inventor (Born 1851).

• Grigori Rasputin

  Russian monk (Born 1869).

• Thibaw Min

  King of Burma (Born 1859).

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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