1916 in the United States
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Timeline of United States history
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Events from the year 1916 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal Government
- President: Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)
- Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall (Democratic)
- Chief Justice: Edward Douglass White
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Champ Clark (D-Missouri)
- Congress: 64th
Events
January
- January 24
- In Browning, Montana, the temperature drops from +6.7°C to −48.8°C (44°F to −56°F) in one day, the greatest change ever on record for a 24-hour period.
- Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the national income tax.
February
- February 11 – The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its first concert.
March
- March 6 – Newton D. Baker appointed Secretary of War.
- March 8–9 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads about 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 12 U.S. soldiers. A garrison of the U.S. 13th Cavalry Regiment fights back and drives them away.
- March 15 – President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa; the 13th Cavalry regiment enters Mexican territory.
- March 16 – Mexican Revolution: The U.S. 7th and 10th Cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the border to join the hunt for Villa.
April
- April 20 – The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings.
May
- May 5 – United States Marines invade the Dominican Republic.
- May 22 – The case of United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola is decided.
June
- June 3 – Division of Militia Affairs renamed Militia Bureau.
- June 5 – Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- June 15 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America.[1]
July
- July 1 – The United States Marine Corps take control of Santo Domingo.
- July 1–12 – At least one shark mauls five swimmers along 80 miles (130 km) of New Jersey coastline during the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, resulting in four deaths and the survival of one youth who required limb amputation. This event is the inspiration for author Peter Benchley, over half a century later, to write Jaws.
- July 8–16 – Massive flooding caused by two hurricanes devastates western North Carolina.
- July 15 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products (later renamed The Boeing Company).
- July 22 – In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade, killing 10 injuring 40 (Warren Billings and Tom Mooney are later wrongly convicted of it).
- July 30 – German agents cause the Black Tom explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey, an act of sabotage destroying an ammunition depot and killing at least seven people.
August
- August 9 – Lassen Volcanic National Park is established in California.
- August 24 – Council of National Defense formed.
- August 25 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs legislation creating the National Park Service.
- August 29 – The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
September
- September 7 – The Merchant Marine Act of 1916 establishes the U.S. Shipping Board (inaugurated January 1917).
- September 13 – Mary, a circus elephant, is hanged in the town of Erwin, Tennessee for killing her handler, Walter "Red" Eldridge.
October
- October 16 – Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth control clinic -a forerunner of Planned Parenthood.
November
- November 7
- U.S. presidential election, 1916: Democratic President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeats Republican Charles E. Hughes.
- Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
- November 21 - US rejects German offer of £10000 per American lost In the Lusitania
December
- December 31
- The Hampton Terrace Hotel in North Augusta, South Carolina, one of the largest and most luxurious hotels in the nation at the time, burns to the ground.
- 14 journals published Louis Raemaekers's anti-German cartoons.
Undated
- Robert Baden-Powell founds the Wolf Cubs Scouts in Britain, changed to Cub Scouts in the USA.
- The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers is founded in the United States.
- American Union Against Militarism established.
Ongoing
- Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
- Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
- U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
- Pancho Villa Expedition (1916–1917)
Births
- January 3
- Maxene Andrews, singer (The Andrews Sisters) (died 1995)
- Betty Furness, actress and consumer activist (died 1994)
- Bernard Greenhouse, cellist (died 2011)
- Warren King, cartoonist (died 1978)
- February 7 – Floyd K. Haskell, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1973 to 1979 (died 1998)
- February 26 – Jackie Gleason, film actor (died 1987)
- March 1 – Emelyn Whiton, Olympic sailor (died 1962)
- March 29 – Eugene McCarthy, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1959 to 1971 (died 2005)
- April 3
- Herb Caen, journalist (died 1997)
- Peter Gowland, photographer (died 2010)
- April 5
- Albert Henry Ottenweller, bishop (died 2012)
- Gregory Peck, actor (died 2003)
- April 22 – Yehudi Menuhin, violinist (died 1999)
- April 30 – Robert Shaw, choral and orchestral conductor (died 1999)
- April 30 – Claude Shannon, mathematician (died 2001)
- May 1 – Glenn Ford, film actor (died 2006)
- May 6
- Adriana Caselotti, voice artist (died 1997)
- Robert H. Dicke, physicist (died 1997)
- May 10 – Milton Babbitt, composer (died 2011)
- May 21 – Harold Robbins, novelist (died 1997)
- May 28 – Dorothy McGuire, film actress (died 2001)
- June 4 – Robert F. Furchgott, biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 2009)
- June 6 – Jack Miller, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1961 to 1973 (died 1994)
- July 1 – Lawrence Halprin, architect (died 2009)
- August 5 – Kermit Love, puppeteer (died 2008)
- August 27 – Martha Raye, actress (died 1994)
- August 28 – Jack Vance, writer (died 2013)
- August 29 – Luther Davis, screenwriter (died 2008)
- August 30 – Shag Crawford, baseball umpire (died 2007)
- August 31
- Daniel Schorr, journalist (died 2010)
- John S. Wold, politician
- October 8 – Spark Matsunaga, U.S. Senator from Hawaii from 1977 to 1990 (died 1990)
- October 30 – Charles E. Potter, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1952 to 1959 (died 1979)
- November 4 – Walter Cronkite, television journalist (died 2009)
- November 5 – Bill Fisk, football player and coach (died 2007)
- December 7 – George Russell Weller, retired salesman known for the Santa Monica Farmer's Market incident (died 2010)
- December 8 – Richard Fleischer, film director (died 2006)
- December 9
- Jerome Beatty, Jr., children's author (died 2002)
- Kirk Douglas, film actor
- December 18 – Betty Grable, film actress (died 1973)
Deaths
- January 1 – Alfred W. Benson, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1906 to 1907 (born 1843)
- February 3 – Bowman Brown Law, politician (born 1855)
- March 20 – Stephen Wallace Dorsey, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1873 to 1879 (born 1842)
- July 23 – Thomas M. Patterson, Irish-born U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1901 to 1907 (born 1839)
- October 25 – William Merritt Chase, Impressionist painter (born 1849)
- November 4 – James D. Moffat, 3rd president of Washington & Jefferson College (born 1846)
- November 10 – Walter Sutton, geneticist and surgeon (born 1877)
- November 13 – Percival Lowell, astronomer (born 1855)
- November 22 – Jack London, writer (born 1876)
- December 31 – Alice Ball, African-American chemist (born 1892)
References
External links
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Media related to 1916 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons - "1916". Timeline. Digital Public Library of America.
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