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* 1916 – George C. Stoney, American director and producer ( d. 2012 )
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* 1916 – Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.
* 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali ( leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire ) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
* 1916 – World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).
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This coalition fell apart at the end of 1916, when the Conservatives withdrew their support from Asquith and gave it to Lloyd George instead, who became Prime Minister at the head of a coalition government largely made up of Conservatives.
His eldest son, George, succeeded as fifth Earl, and was the father of John, the seventh Earl, who was created Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair in 1916.
He obtained a law degree from George Washington University Law School in 1916, and an LL. M., a Master of Laws degree, in 1917 from the same university.
* 1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products ( later renamed Boeing ).
The only case where a senator was appointed prime minister was that of John Gorton, who subsequently resigned his Senate position and was elected as a member of the House of Representatives ( Senator George Pearce was acting prime minister for seven months in 1916 while Billy Hughes was overseas ).
The Asquith government proved ineffective but when David Lloyd George replaced him in December 1916 Britain gained a powerful and successful wartime leader.
It was given in 1916 to Andrew Bonar Law, and when he declined, to David Lloyd George and in 1940 to Winston Churchill.
9 and 38a, and the Chamber Symphonies by Franz Schreker, George Enescu, and John Adams, composed in 1906, 1906 – 39, 1916, 1954, and 1992, respectively, are scored for chamber groups.
Lloyd George is best known as the highly energetic Prime Minister ( 1916 – 22 ) who guided the Empire through the First World War to victory over Germany and its allies.
Late in 1915 Lloyd George became a strong supporter of general conscription, and he helped to put through the conscription act of 1916.
In June 1916 Lloyd George succeeded Kitchener ( drowned en route to Russia ) as Secretary of State for War, although he had little control over strategy, as General Robertson had been given direct right of access to the Cabinet so as to bypass Kitchener.
Asquith was forced out in December 1916, with the war still raging and almost two years from its end, and Lloyd George became Prime Minister, with the nation demanding he take charge of the war in vigorous fashion.
After December 1916, Lloyd George relied on the support of Conservatives and of the press baron Lord Northcliffe ( who owned both The Times and The Daily Mail ).
He had his first stage success with Theodore & Co in 1916, a production by George Grossmith, Jr. and Edward Laurillard with a score composed by Novello and the young Jerome Kern.
She and her children were made Counts de Torby, her younger daughter, Countess Nada ( 1896 – 1963 ) marrying, in 1916 Prince George of Battenberg, future Marquess of Milford Haven and scion of the House of Battenberg, a morganatic branch of the grandducal House of Hesse which had settled in England and inter-married with descendants of Queen Victoria.
* American ( U. S. A .)— Bradley, Will: Moongold: A Pierrot Pantomime ( 1921 ); Browning, Tod: Puppets ( 1916 ); Cukor, George: Sylvia Scarlett ( 1935 ; features performing foursome called The Pink Pierrots ); Lund, Oscar A. C .: When Pierrot Met Pierrette ( 1913 ).
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