The railway construction finished in October 1916 with the opening of the Khabarovsk Bridge across the Amur at Khabarovsk.

* December 3 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic ( the bridge partially collapsed on August 29, 1907 and September 11, 1916 ).

Hawthorn Bridge cable tram terminus to Auburn Road, via Burwood Road, Power Street and Riversdale Road, opened in 1890 and closed on 31 January 1916 after being sold to the Hawthorn Tramways Trust for conversion to electric traction.

In order of their opening years, these are the Frisco Bridge ( 1892, single-track rail ), the Harahan Bridge ( 1916, a road-rail bridge until 1949, currently carries double-track rail ), the Memphis-Arkansas Memorial Bridge ( Highway, 1949 ; later incorporated into Interstate 55 ), and the Hernando de Soto Bridge ( Interstate 40, 1973 ).

Image: Bridge Street, Union, NH. jpg | Bridge Street in 1916 ( Union )

Between 1885 and 1916, Crawick even had its own post office ( known as Crawick Bridge ); it also had gas-powered streetlights two years before the rest of the town of Sanquhar.

The line between Broad Street and both Kew Bridge and Richmond was electrified by the LNWR in 1916 on the 4th rail DC system.

It was originally a branch line, but in 1916 the New York Connecting Railroad and its Hell Gate Bridge opened, turning the Harlem River Branch into a major through route.

The Tyne Bridge was designed by Mott, Hay and Anderson who based their design on the Hell Gate Bridge in New York ( which was completed in 1916 ).

French was also the designer of the two allegorical figures Brooklyn and Manhattan currently flanking the museum's entrance ( created in 1916 for the Brooklyn approach to the Manhattan Bridge, relocated to the museum in 1963 ).

The LNWR, which half-owned Broad Street station, was responsible for fourth-rail electrification of the Broad Street services to Richmond and to Kew Bridge in 1916.

The West End Line has had an express ( on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line ) service-labeled 3 in 1924-since it opened in 1916, passing over the Manhattan Bridge and onto the BMT Broadway Line express tracks.

** Harahan Bridge ( 1916 )

1916 Monument on Sarsfield Bridge

The Sarsfield Bridge Monument commemorates the 1916 Rising and is located on the bridge just above the Limerick Rowing Club building.

The Hawthorn Tramways Trust closed the horse tramway for conversion to electric traction on 31 January 1916, with the electric line opening in two stages ; Power Street to Auburn Road along Riversdale Road opening on 7 May 1916, and from Hawthorn Bridge to Riversdale Road along Burwood Road and Power Street on 21 June 1916.

During the Easter Rising in 1916, the Irish Citizen Army sent a group of men to seize a delaying position at Portobello Bridge, to allow fortifications to be constructed in the city centre.

Herbert Alexander Simon ( June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001 ) was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist, and professor — most notably at Carnegie Mellon University — whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science, sociology, and political science.

A drought swept across Winkler County in 1916, and many families who came during the school-land rush gave up their farms and moved.

Before dawn on March 16, 1916, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa led several hundred of his rebel soldiers across the Mexican border into the southern county village of Columbus.

The large South Mountain Oil Field southeast of town, just across the Santa Clara River, was discovered by the Oak Ridge Oil Company in 1916, and developed methodically through the 1920s, bringing further economic diversification and growth to the area.

In 1899, the Derwent Valley Water Board was set up to supply water to Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield, and the two Gothic-style dams were built across the River Derwent to create Howden Reservoir ( 1912 ) and Derwent Reservoir ( 1916 ).

The Serbian army retreated across the Albanian mountain ranges to the Adriatic Sea by January 1916.

After the victorious strike in Lawrence, Tresca was active in several strikes across the United States ; the Little Falls, New York textile workers ' strike ( 1912 ), the New York City hotel workers ' strike ( 1913 ), the Paterson silk strike ( 1913 ), and the Mesabi Range, Minnesota, miners ' strike ( 1916 ).

* 1916 – 1923: Prohibition in Alberta ; " rum-running " across the provincial boundary.

" Hague's concerns were shown to be valid in July 1916 when the Black Tom explosion sent shrapnel flying across the city.

By 1916, Big Brothers had spread to 96 cities across the country.

After the Gallipoli Campaign, a second joint German and Ottoman force, again advanced across the desert to threaten the canal, during July 1916.

By mid-September 1916 the Anzac Mounted Division had pursued the retreating Ottoman and German forces from Bir el Abd along the northern route across the Sinai Peninsula to the outpost at Bir el Mazar.

In 1916, the Meyner family moved across the state border to Phillipsburg, New Jersey.

After the British Empire victories at the Battle of Romani in August 1916 and the Battle of Magdhaba in December, the Ottoman Army had been forced to retreat back across the Sinai Peninsula to the southern edge of Palestine.

Following their victory at the Battle of Romani on 4 August 1916, British mounted forces supported by infantry, went onto the offensive ; their pace of advance governed only by the speed by which the railway and water pipeline could be constructed across the Sinai Peninsula.

Until 1916 Fleury-sur-Orne was known as Allemagne ( Calvados ) after the Alamanni tribe which once guarded the ford across the Orne.

He was extremely popular internationally, to such an extent that the music hall duo " The Two Bobs " had a hit song in 1916, in music halls across Britain, with the song " When Paderewski plays ".

Congestion at Port Dock and the delays involved in operating trains along busy streets in the centre of the Port resulted in construction of a viaduct and a new bridge across the Port River in 1916.

In early 1916, the 12th Battalion was stationed in the front line at Ypres, Belgium and came across a printing press abandoned by a Belgian who had, in the words of the editor, " stood not on the order of his going, but gone.

MIT moved across the river in 1916 ; the edifice has since been replaced by a life insurance building.

West Side Park hosting " Buffalo Bill's Wild West " in 1916, the year after the Cubs moved across town to Wrigley Field | Weeghman Park.

Reflecting contemporary events, the theme for the 1915 display was " The Battle of the Marne "; in 1916 it was " The War in Flanders ", during which one spectator got so caught up in the action that he waded across the lake to join in with the " fighting ".

Built in 1916 and located across the street from Carnegie Hall, it was commissioned by Louis H. Chalif ( 1876 – 1948 ) from the brother architects George and Henry Boehm to house his dance studio and the Normal School of Dancing.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

Lloyd Lewis wrote that when he first knew Carl in 1916, Sandburg was making $27.50 a week writing features for the Day Book and eating sparse luncheons in one-arm restaurants.

His assignment was not a new one because Baker had sent him to the Mexican border in 1916 to investigate lurid newspaper stories about lack of discipline, drunkenness, and venereal disease in American military camps.

Unlike the models mentioned above, Christie's Poirot was clearly the result of her early development of the detective in her first book, written in 1916 but not published until 1920.

It was here, on 16 July 1916, that he again met his lifelong friend, Captain Arthur Hastings, and solved the first of his cases to be published: The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

The automatic flour mill built by Oliver Evans in 1785 was called the beginning of modern bulk material handling by Roe ( 1916 ).

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

Ann Arbor's Jewish community also grew after the turn of the 20th century, and its first and oldest synagogue, Beth Israel Congregation, was established in 1916.

The first tank to engage in battle was designated D1, a British Mark I, during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette ( part of the Somme Offensive ) on 15 September 1916.

Andrew R. Cobb designed several campus buildings including: Raynor Hall Residence, 1916 ; Horton House, designed by Cobb in the Georgian style, and built by James Reid of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia was opened in 1915 as Horton Academy.

The WAFL lost two clubs and the SANFL was suspended for one year in 1916 due to heavy club losses.

Butterworth's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music ; Ivor Gurney, another most important setter of Housman ( Ludlow and Teme, a work for voice and string quartet, and a song-cycle on Housman works, both of which won the Carnegie Award ) experienced emotional breakdowns which were popularly ( but wrongly ) believed to have originated from shell-shock.

To the soldiers who did the fighting, the distinction was usually academic ; a soldier fighting at Beaumont Hamel on November 13, 1916 was probably unaware he was taking part in what the committee would call the " Battle of the Ancre ".

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala invented a solid-ink fountain pen in 1907, a German inventor named Baum took out a ballpoint patent in 1910, and yet another ballpoint pen device was patented by Van Vechten Riesburg in 1916.

The first modern solution of general relativity that would characterize a black hole was found by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916, although its interpretation as a region of space from which nothing can escape was not fully appreciated for another four decades.

A debate took place in the Reichstag on 15 January 1916, where the incident was described as a " cowardly murder " and Grey's note as being " full of insolence and arrogance ".

Thus the view from Whitehall early in 1916: If defeat was not imminent, neither was victory ; and the outcome of the war of attrition on the Western Front could not be predicted.

From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them.

Chaplin made 14 films for Essanay, the last of which was a parody of Carmen named Burlesque on Carmen ( 1916 ).