* Fairbanks Fragments ( 1916 – 1918 ) also screenwriter

* Emperor Charles I. of Austria ( 1916 – 1918 ) http :// www. youtube. com / watch? v = jMU9FFzez1A

* Emperor Franz Joseph ( 1848 – 1916 ) http :// www. youtube. com / watch? v = jecUwMPk8pE & feature = related

* 1916 – Phil Leeds, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* 1916 – Vincent Ellis McKelvey, American geologist ( d. 1987 )

* 1916 – Beverly Cleary, American writer

* 1916 – Russell Garcia, American composer ( d. 2011 )

* 1916 – Benjamin Libet, American scientist ( d. 2007 )

* 1916 – Claude Shannon, American engineer and mathematician ( d. 2001 )

* 1916 – Robert Shaw, American conductor ( d. 1999 )

* 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 – Tony Harris, South African cricketer ( d. 1993 )

* 1916 – Martha Raye, American actress ( d. 1994 )

* 1916 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian ( d. 1970 )

* 1916 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese politician and journalist, 8th Prime Minister of Malta ( d. 2012 )

* 1916 – World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.

* 2006 – In Tam, Cambodian politician ( b. 1916 )

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 ).

* 1916 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal

* 1916 – The United States National Park Service is created.

Image: Monet Water Lilies 1916. jpg | Water Lilies, 1916, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

One of the first was the Swiss National League A, founded in 1916.

Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1916, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Lane invited Mather to come to Washington, DC to work with him to draft and see passage of the National Park Service Organic Act, which the 64th United States Congress enacted and which President Woodrow Wilson signed into law on August 25, 1916.

File: Pierre-Auguste Renoir-Femmes au bain. jpg | Women Bathers, 1916, National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

* Timothy Drew ( Noble Drew Ali, Sharif Abdul Ali ), prophet and founder of the Moorish Science Temple of America, founder of the Moorish Divine and National Movement, May 1, 1916, Newark N. J.

In 1916, Bennett was appointed director general of the National Service Board, which was in charge of identifying the number of potential recruits in the country.

Between 1916 and 1921, there was a vogue of V12s, during which National ( Indianapolis ) copied the Packard engine, and Weidely Motors ( also of Indianapolis ) offered a proprietary engine.

Under this congressional charter, the National Research Council was created in 1916, the National Academy of Engineering in 1964, and the Institute of Medicine in 1970.

The National Research Council was organized in 1916 in response to the increased need for scientific and technical services caused by World War I.

With the passage of the 1916 National Defense Act approximately one half of the United States Army's available combat forces and approximately one third of its support organizations were National Guard units.

# National Defense Act of 1916

Kidderminster Operatics & Dramatics Society ( KODS ) was founded in 1916 and is affiliated to the National Operatic and Dramatic Association ( NODA ).

In 1916, pro-Venizelist Greek army officers and civilians, with the support of the Allies, launched the Movement of National Defence, creating a pro-Allied temporary government by the name of the " State of Thessaloniki " that controlled " new lands " ( lands that were gained by Greece in the Balkan Wars, most of Northern Greece including Greek Macedonia, the North Aegean as well as the island of Crete ); the official government of the King in Athens, the " State of Athens ", controlled the " old lands " which were traditionally monarchist.

The 1916 Republican National Convention was held in Chicago from June 7 to June 10.

Later, Tilak re-united with his fellow nationalists and re-joined the Indian National Congress in 1916.

* National Lead Company, now NL Industries, removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1916.

The National Park Service, on its creation in 1916, took over Yosemite.

* John McCarthy ( American football ) ( born 1916 ), professional football player in the National Football League

* The Everett Prisoners ' Defense Committee Records, 1916 4 items.

Robert Strange McNamara ( June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009 ) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

Authorized by the National Defense Act of 1920, which amended the National Defense Act of 1916, nine multi-state sized " corps areas " were established on 20 August 1920 by the U. S. Army Chief of Staff through War Department General Order Number 50.

The program was originally created as part of the National Defense Act of 1916 and later expanded under the 1964 ROTC Vitalization Act.

The Congress reversed these changes in support of the bureaus and in the National Defense Act of 1916 reduced the size and functions of the general staff to few members before America entered World War I.

As part of an army reorganization and final realization of the 1920 amendment to the National Defense Act of 1916, Army Chief of Staff, General Douglas MacArthur directed the establishment of four field armies that each commanded three corps areas that were geographically located.

In June 1916, the National Defense Act created the Reserve Officers Training Corps.

Congress passed the National Defense Act of 1916 in June 1916 to authorize an enormous increase in the size of the military, and the Preparedness Movement faded.

* Provisional Government of National Defense ( northern Greece ), 1916

* 3 ) " At the Defense of Pittsburgh ; or, The Struggle to Save America's ' Fighting Steel ' Supply ", Altemus, 1916 ( 28898921, microfilm )

In 1916, Wilson appointed Lane to the Council of National Defense ( CND ), where he urged cooperation between the private and public sectors.

The National Defense Act of 1916 continued the student military training and the businessmen's summer camps and placed them on a firmer legal basis by authorizing an Officers ' Reserve Corps and a Reserve Officers ' Training Corps ( ROTC ).

The Division continued to perform under the direct jurisdiction of the Chief of Staff until the passage of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916.

The National Defense Act of 1916 is, with the exception of the United States Constitution, the most important piece of legislation in the history of the National Guard.

This situation changed on June 4, 1920 when Congress passed an amendment to the National Defense Act of 1916.

The National Defense Act of 1916 directed the President to select a site for the artificial production of nitrates.

A deadlock in Congress was broken when Senator Ellison D. Smith from South Carolina sponsored the National Defense Act of 1916 that directed " the Secretary of Agriculture to manufacture nitrates for fertilizers in peace and munitions in war at water power sites designated by the President ".

During the First World War, Rafcliffe joined the Liquor License Commission in Baltimore, serving from 1916 – 1919, and also served as a member of the Maryland State Council of Defense.

In 1916 Congress enacted the National Defense Act and 15 more regiments were authorized.

The NDRC was created as part of the Council of National Defense, which had been created during 1916 to coordinate industry and resources for national security purposes, by an order of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on June 27, 1940.