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    1916 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in July 1916: Battle of the Somme...
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    Third Republic against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of the upper reaches of the river Somme in France...
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    shark attacks of 1916 were a series of shark attacks along the coast of New Jersey, in the United States, between July 1 and 12, 1916, in which four people...
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    eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Saturday, July 15, 1916, with an umbral magnitude of 0.7944. A lunar eclipse occurs when the...
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  • 1916 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1916. 1916 (MCMXVI) was...
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  • The list of shipwrecks in July 1916 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during July 1916. "Rockcliffe". Uboat.net. Retrieved 5...
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    Lochnagar mine (category Explosions in 1916)
    planted by the British during the First World War, to be ready for 1 July 1916, the first day on the Somme. The mine was dug by the Tunnelling Companies...
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    caused 37 deaths and about $11.8 million (1916 USD) in damage. Several other storms were notable. An early July hurricane along the northern Gulf Coast...
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    Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland...
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  • Eastern Front against Russia, from 19 September 1915 to 25 July 1916 and again from 4 October 1916 to 24 January 1918 during World War I. It was commanded...
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    Battle of Mecca occurred in the Muslim holy city of Mecca in June and July 1916. On June 10, the Sharif of Mecca, Hussein bin Ali, the leader of the Banu...
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    from 28 July 1916 until his death on 23 September 1968. The Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church was built in devotion to the saint and dedicated on 1 July 2004....
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    Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 7, 1916. Incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeated former associate...
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    come to power. The Liberal Party might never recover—as indeed happened in 1916. On 6 August, Emperor Franz Joseph signed the Austro-Hungarian declaration...
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    1916 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in November 1916: Ninth Battle...
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    The Battle of Albert (1–13 July 1916) is the British name for the first two weeks of British–French offensive operations of the Battle of the Somme. The...
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    Mines on the first day of the Somme (category 1916 in France)
    On the morning of 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme during World War I, underground explosive charges planted by British tunnelling...
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  • which operated in the Baltics against Russia between 5 August 1915 and 30 July 1916 during World War I, under command of Ober Ost Paul von Hindenburg. It...
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    Fergus Suter (category 1916 deaths)
    Fergus Suter (21 November 1857 – 31 July 1916) was a Scottish stonemason and footballer in the early days of the game. Arguably the first recognised professional...
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    1916 and completed the galleries, Hill 60 A being charged with explosives in July 1916 and the Hill 60 B branch gallery in October. By October 1916,...
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    of June 1916, did trials at the Kiel School until about 28th July 1916 and then entered the North Sea, joining the 2nd Half Flotilla. 30th July – 4th August...
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  • 1998) 1916 – Olivia de Havilland, British-American actress (d. 2020) 1916 – Iosif Shklovsky, Ukrainian astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1985) 1916 – George...
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    Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (category People of the July Crisis)
    in July 1916, accepting a peerage as Viscount Grey of Fallodon, in the County of Northumberland. When Asquith's ministry collapsed in December 1916 and...
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    zero points for a defeat. 2 July 1916 Estadio GEBA, Buenos Aires Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Hugo Gronda (Argentina) 6 July 1916 Estadio GEBA, Buenos Aires...
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    breaking up on 28 July 1934. The Cambrian class were ordered in September 1914 under the 1914-15 Programme, and commissioned between 1915 and 1916. The ships...
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    Black Tom explosion (category July 1916 events in the United States)
    shipped to the Allies during World War I. The explosions occurred on July 30, 1916, in New York Harbor, killing at least 7 people and wounding hundreds...
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    Autoped as a "self-propelled vehicle" was applied for in July 1913 and granted in July 1916. An early description of the Autoped described it as having...
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  • 1997) 1915 – Timmie Rogers, American actor and singer-songwriter (d. 2006) 1916 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American typist and broadcaster (d. 2006) 1918 – Eppie...
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  • 2008) 1916 – Mortimer Caplin, American tax attorney, educator, and IRS Commissioner (d. 2019) 1916 – Hans Maier, Dutch water polo player (d. 2018) 1916 –...
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    training pilots to man them. When the Battle of the Somme started in July 1916, most ordinary RFC squadrons were still equipped with planes that proved...
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