July 1916 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1916 British court martial (Easter uprising)
• 02 Jul 1916 Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism
• 08 Jul 1916 July 16- Massive flooding caused by 2 different hurricanes devastates western North Carolina.
• 11 Jul 1916 Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act
• 14 Jul 1916 33.6 cm rainfall at Effingham SC (state record)
• 15 Jul 1916 22.22 (56.4 cm) of rain falls in Altapass NC (state record)
• 19 Jul 1916 World War I: Battle of Fromelles : British and Australian troops attack German trenches in a prelude to the Battle of the Somme.
• 20 Jul 1916 Giants trade Christy Mathewson to Cin Reds
• 22 Jul 1916 In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40.
• 25 Jul 1916 Explosion at Lake Erie and Cleveland Waterworks.
• 29 Jul 1916 Postal check and Girodienst establishes
• 30 Jul 1916 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, New Jersey.

Famous Birthday

• Olivia de Havilland

  British-born actress.

• Marcel Cerdan

  Algerian-French boxing champion.

• Gough Whitlam

  Australian politician who joined the ALP in 1945 and on 11/29/1952, won the federal seat of Werriwa.

• Alice Sapritch

  actress (European Vacation), dies.

• Keenan Wynn

  American character actor, appearing in over 220 films and countless TV specials.

• Edward Heath

  British politician who was elected P.M.

• Charlie Christian

  American jazz guitarist (d. 1942).

• John D MacDonald

  American novelist, (d. 1986).

• Paul Vandenberghe
• Budd Boetticher

  American director producer and screenwriter (d. 2001).

• Natalia Ginzburg

  Italian Jewish author, novelist, journalist, playwright, and essayist.

• Tokyo Rose

  Japanese-American visitor to Japan turned propagandist broadcaster of English to allied forces in WW II.

• VM Brockwell

  British clairvoyant.

• 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings
• Reg Varney

  English actor and screenwriter (d. 2008).

• Kenneth Armitage

  English sculptor.

• Irving S Shapiro
• John Kundla

  American college and professional basketball coach.

• Al H Morrison
• Eve Merriam

  poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at age 75.

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Famous Deaths

• Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro

  Composer, dies at 52.

• Aritius S Talma

  Dutch Minister of Agriculture, dies at 52.

• Charles Fryatt

  British Captain of SS Brussels, executed by Germans.

• Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov

  Russ bacteriologist (Nobel 1908).

• Ludwig P Scharwenka

  German Composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70.

• Victor Alexander Haden Horsley

  Physician.

• William Ramsey

  Chemist.

• Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green

  (Witch of Wall Street).

• Alan Seeger

  American war poet (Born 1888).

• Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov

  Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (Born 1845).

• Sir William Ramsay

  Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1852).

• Benjamin C Truman

  American journalist and author (Born 1835).

• Odilon Redon

  French artist, painter, etcher and lithographer who created "In the Dream," 1879 and "Night," 1886, using dramatic contrasts of black and...

• Rik Wouters

  Belgian painter and sculptor, the leading Belgian exponent of Fauvism.

• Hetty Green

  American businesswoman and financier (d. 1916).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Elsie Baker & Reed Miller - Fair Hawaii
2. Ernest Ball - Good-Bye, Good Luck, God Bless You
3. Al Jolson - Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on Saturday Night?
4. Harry Lauder - My Bonny Bonny Jean
5. Sophie Braslau - Birds in the Night (A Lullaby)