Top News Stories from 1916

World Events

• Battle of Verdun is fought. Battle of the Somme follows in July. Background: World War I
• Pershing fails in raid into Mexico in quest of rebel Pancho Villa.
• Easter Rebellion in Ireland put down by British troops.

U.S. Events

• Congress authorizes a plan to expand the U.S. armed forces over the next five years (June).
• Montana voters elect 36-year-old Republican Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress.
• U.S. National Park Service in the Department of the Interior is created by act of Congress (Aug. 20).
• Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in the country at 46 Amboy St., Brooklyn.

Economics

Sports

World Series

Stanley Cup

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Football Champions

Entertainment

Events

• Charlie Chaplin signs on with Mutual Studios and earns an unprecedented $10,000 a week.

Science

• Albert Einstein completes his mathematical formulation of a general theory of relativity, which includes gravity.

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