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1916 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2028. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1916 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1916
- January 1, 1916 – German troops abandon Yaoundé and their Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea.
- February 4, 1916 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- February 25, 1916 – World War I: The Germans capture Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun.
- April 24, 1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship Endurance.
- June 5, 1916 – Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
- August 28, 1916 – World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
- September 19, 1916 – During the East African Campaign of World War I, colonial armed forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of General Charles Tombeur captured the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
- October 16, 1916 – In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
- November 18, 1916 – World War I: First Battle of the Somme: In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
- December 18, 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 suffer 337,000 casualties.
Who Were Born On 1916?
- January 10, 1916 – Eldzier Cortor, American painter
- March 16, 1916 – Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004)
- April 7, 1916 – Anthony Caruso, American actor (d. 2003)
- April 17, 1916 – Win Maung, 3rd President of Union of Myanmar (d. 1989)
- May 4, 1916 – Richard Proenneke, American soldier, carpenter, and meteorologist (d. 2003)
- May 14, 1916 – Lance Dossor, English-Australian pianist and educator (d. 2005)
- May 22, 1916 – William C. Brown, American engineer (d. 1999)
- July 19, 1916 – Phil Cavarretta, American baseball player and manager (d. 2010)
- August 24, 1916 – Hal Smith, American actor and singer (d. 1994)
- August 27, 1916 – Martha Raye, American actress and singer (d. 1994)