September 1916 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1916 Bulgaria declares war on Romania
• 02 Sep 1916 British pilot William Leefe-Robinson becomes the first to shoot down a German airship over Britain.
• 04 Sep 1916 Christy Mathewson and Mordecai Brown final baseball game.
• 05 Sep 1916 36th US Mens Tennis: R N Williams III beats Johnston
• 07 Sep 1916 Federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
• 11 Sep 1916 German troops conquer Kavalla Greece
• 13 Sep 1916 Mary, a circus elephant, is hanged in the town of Erwin, Tennessee for killing her handler, Walter quotRedquot Eldridge.
• 14 Sep 1916 Christy Mathewson pitches and wins his final game.
• 15 Sep 1916 World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
• 17 Sep 1916 40,000 Amsterdam demonstrators demand general voting right
• 19 Sep 1916 1st landing on Schiphol (Farman F-22 of Soesterberg)
• 20 Sep 1916 Friedrik Johannes Hugo von Engelken becomes US Mint director.
• 26 Sep 1916 Bishop speak against Catholics in trade unions
• 27 Sep 1916 1st Native American Day celebrated, honoring American Indians
• 29 Sep 1916 John D. Rockefeller becomes the world's first known billionaire.

Famous Birthday

• Roald Dahl

  British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot.

• Françoise Giroud

  Swiss-French journalist and politician French Minister of Culture (d. 2003).

• Vittorio Mussolini

  Italian noted family, the son of Benito Mussolini.

• Margaret Millard

  American physician who specialized in pediatrics and practiced in Maine.

• Aldo Moro

  Italian corrupt politician who was Premier of the country five times from 1963 and the leader of the Christian Democratic party.

• Peter Finch

  British actor and international star by the '60s.

• Yvette Giraud
• Rossano Brazzi

  Italian actor internationally known from 1949.

• Margaret Lockwood

  British actress born in India, noted for her performances on stage and in film.

• Pierre Boutang

  French writer, a novelist, philosopher and critic.

• Albert Palle

  French writer, and winner of the 1959 Prix Renaudot.

• John Currie Gunn
• Robert Manuel

  French actor and director.

• Gabriel Gauthier

  French Air Force pilot.

• John Jacob Rhodes

  Jr.

• Theodore Puck

  American biophysicist.

• Frederick C Weyand

  Former U.S.

• Joseph Buchler

  American homicide who, as a factory worker, hired Mack Truesdale, a black hit-man, to kill his wife Blanche.

• Winant Sidle

  American military, Major General in the United States Army.

• Paul L Higgins
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Famous Deaths

• Friedrich Gernsheim

  Composer, dies at 77.

• Isidore Edouard Legouix

  Composer, dies at 82.

• Julius Fucik

  Composer, dies at 44.

• Emile A G Verhaeren

  Belgian writer (Les Heures du Soir), dies at 61.

• Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre

  Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1832).

• Friedrich Baumfelder

  German composer, conductor, and pianist (Born 1836).

• Josiah Royce

  US philosopher (Conception of Immortality).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. M.J. O'Connell - It's a Hundred to One You're in Love
2. Elizabeth Wheeler - At the End of a Beautiful Day
3. Al Jolson - I Sent My Wife to the Thousand Isles
4. Prince's Orchestra - Babes in the Wood
5. Peerless Quartet - The Honolulu Blues