What Happened In September 1916 In History

Historical Events for September, 1916

• 3rd » World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
• 15th » World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
• 17th » World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftwaffe e.g Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
• 19th » During the East African Campaign of World War I, colonial armed forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur called General Charles Tombeur captured the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
• 27th » Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu I.

Famous Birthdays on September in 1916

• 1st » Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player
• 3rd » Trigger Alpert, American bassist (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (d. 2013)
• 3rd » Eddie Stanky, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1999)
• 5th » Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 5th » Frank Yerby, American-Spanish author (d. 1991)
• 12th » Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver (d. 1961)
• 12th » Edward Binns, American actor (d. 1990)
• 13th » Roald Dahl, English pilot, author, and screenwriter (d. 1990)
• 14th » Eric Bentley, English-American singer, playwright, and critic
• 14th » John Heyer, Australian director and producer (d. 2001)
• 15th » Margaret Lockwood, Pakistani-English actress and singer (d. 1990)
• 15th » Frederick C. Weyand, American general (d. 2010)
• 16th » Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, Caribbean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis (d. 1978)
• 16th » M. S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer and actress (d. 2004)
• 16th » Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian cricketer, umpire, and politician (d. 1999)
• 17th » Mary Stewart (novelist) or Mary Stewart, English-Scottish author (d. 2014)
• 18th » Frank Bell (educator) e.g Frank Bell, English soldier and educator (d. 1989)
• 18th » Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (d. 1994)
• 18th » John Jacob Rhodes, American lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
• 20th » Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2003)
• 21st » Françoise Giroud, Swiss-French journalist and politician, Minister of Culture (France) e.g French Minister of Culture (d. 2003)
• 23rd » Aldo Moro, Italian politician, 39th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1978)
• 24th » Ruth Leach Amonette, American businesswoman (d. 2004)
• 25th » Jessica Anderson, Australian author (d. 2010)
• 25th » Deendayal Upadhyaya, Indian economist, sociologist, and journalist (d. 1968)
• 27th » S. Yizhar, Israeli academic and politician (d. 2006)
• 28th » Peter Finch, English-Australian actor (d. 1977)
• 28th » Olga Lepeshinskaya (dancer) or Olga Lepeshinskaya, Ukrainian-Russian ballerina and educator (d. 2008)
• 29th » Carl Giles, English cartoonist (d. 1995)

Famous Deaths for September 1916

• 8th » Friedrich Baumfelder, German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1836)
• 14th » José Echegaray, Spanish engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)

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