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The following events occurred in December 1916:
December 1, 1916 (Friday)
- Battle of the Argeș – The Romanian force of 150,000 attacked the Danube Army of 250,000 men under command of German General Erich Ludendorff southwest of the Romanian capital of Bucharest and nearly surrounded the Central Powers force.[1][2]
- Capture of Yanbu – Ottoman forces under command of Fakhri Pasha attempted to capture the British-held port of Yanbu on the Red Sea.[3]
- An Order in Council authorized an increase of Canadian troops to 500,000 for World War One.
- A side collision between an express train and passenger train in Herceghalom, Hungary killed 69 people, the deadliest rail disaster in the country's history.[4]
- British submarine HMS E37 was lost in the North Sea with all 30 of her crew.[5]
- French Catholic missionary Charles de Foucauld, the founder of Little Brothers of Jesus was shot dead during an attempted abduction by bandits from a fort constructed to protect the Tuareg people in Algeria.[6] His death was considered a martyrdom and he was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.[7]
- Born: Wan Li, Chinese statesman, Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1983 to 1988 and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1988 to 1993, in Dongping County, Shandong, China (d. 2015)
- Died: Lajos Thallóczy, Hungarian public servant, adviser to Franz Joseph I of Austria on all Balkan affairs (b. 1857)
December 2, 1916 (Saturday)
- Battle of the Argeș – Also known at the Battle of Bucharest, the 6th Turkish Infantry Division was mobilized to aid the surrounded German southwest of the Romanian capital.[8]
- Twelve members of the Industrial Workers of the World, known as the Sydney Twelve, were convicted of conspiring to commit arson and sedition in Sydney.[9]
- Born: Hart Amos, Australian comic strip artist, best known for his illustration work for Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors from 1970 to 1977, in Lindfield, New South Wales, Australia (d. 2000); Nancye Wynne Bolton, Australian tennis player, six-time winner of the Australian Open, in Melbourne (d. 2001); Cecil E. Harris, American naval fighter pilot, flying ace with 15 downed aircraft during World War Two, recipient of the Navy Cross and Medal of Honor, in Faulkton, South Dakota (d. 1981)
- Born: John Bentley, English actor, best known for the 1970s TV series African Patrol and the British soap opera Crossroads, in Birmingham (d. 2009); Howard Finster, American folk artist, created over 46,000 art pieces for his "Paradise Gardens" sculpture garden in Summerville, Georgia, and later album covers for R.E.M. and Talking Heads, in Valley Head, Alabama (d. 2001)
- Died: Francesco Paolo Tosti, Italian composer, credited for popularizing salon music during the Belle Époque era with songs such as "Serenata", "Addio" and "Ancora" (b. 1846)
December 3, 1916 (Sunday)
- Battle of the Argeș – Both the intervention by Ottoman forces and slowed reinforcements on the Romanian side caused the attack to weaken against the Germans, allowing them to break out and route the counterattack.[10]
- Capture of Yanbu – Arab forces retreated into the city limits of Yanbu and Ottoman forces surrounded them, but managed to build an emergency airstrip that allowed British aircraft to resupply the defenders until reinforcements arrived.[11]
- French submarine Kanguroo was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by German submarine SM U-38, along with two accompanying ships. In all, 41 sailors died in the attack.[12]
- Died: William Walker Scranton, American business executive, president of the Lackawanna Steel Company, son to George W. Scranton (b. 1844)
December 4, 1916 (Monday)
- French fighter ace Charles Nungesser shot down a German airplane piloted by fighter ace Hans Schilling over Flesquières, France, killing him and his co-pilot.[13]
- The Bratsberg Line rail began operating between the rural municipalities of Eidanger and Telemark, Norway.[14]
- The final property of the Whitewater Shaker Settlement was sold, dissolving the Shaker settlement near New Haven, Hamilton County, Ohio. Many of the original sites were purchased by the Great Parks of Hamilton County and are registered under the National Register of Historic Places.[15]
- Born: Balwant Gargi, Indian writer, best known for his plays and novels in the Punjabi language including Rival Women and The Naked Triangle, in Bathinda, India (d. 2003)
- Died: Preston Lea, American politician, 52nd Governor of Delaware (b. 1841)
December 5, 1916 (Tuesday)
- An explosion at Barnbow, a munitions factory near Leeds, killed 35 female workers and injured hundreds more.[16]
- British Prime Minister H.H. Asquith resigned from office, allowing War Minister Lloyd George to succeed him while Lord Derby took over the ministry.[17]
- U.S. President Woodrow Wilson delivered the 1916 State of the Union Address to the 64th United States Congress, the first presidential address after winning re-election in November.[18]
- The last recorded stagecoach robbery occurred in Jarbidge, Nevada where wagon driver Fred Searcy was ambushed by Ben Kuhl, a known horse thief, along with Ed Beck and William McGraw. The three men robbed $4,000 from a mining payroll transported on the coach and shot Search dead. The three were arrested shortly after and Kuhl was tried and convicted of Searcy's murder.[19]
- U.S. Navy destroyer USS Allen was launched by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine and would serve in both world wars.[20]
- The chamber opera Savitri by Gustav Holst premiered at Wellington Hall in London.[21]
- Born: Hilary Koprowski, Polish-American virologist and immunologist, inventor of the first effective live polio vaccine, in Warsaw (d. 2013); Paul Aste, Austrian bobsledder and luger, seven-time medalist in the European Luge Championships and two-time World Championships medalist for bobsled, in Matrei in Osttirol, Austria (still alive in 2016);
- Born: Margaret Hayes, American actress, best known for leading female role in Blackboard Jungle, in Baltimore (d. 1977); Abby Marlatt, American academic and activist, leading proponent of civil rights in Lexington, Kentucky, in Manhattan, Kansas (d. 2010)
- Died: Hans Richter, Austrian-Hungarian conductor, first to conduct the Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle]] by Richard Wagner (b. 1843); Augusta of Cambridge, British noble, member of the Royal Family, granddaughter of George III (b. 1822)
- Died: Mikhail Batyanov, Russian army officer, decorated general for the Russian Imperial Army during the Crimean War (b. 1835); George Boldt, German-American business executive, president of the Waldorf–Astoria Hotel Company from 1897 to 1916 (b. 1851)
December 6, 1916 (Wednesday)
- The Germans occupied Bucharest, forcing the capital of Romania to be moved to Iaşi. In total, the Romanian army lost 40 percent of its 150,000 force in battles against the Central Powers.[22]
- Royal Navy HMS Ariel sank German submarine SM UC-19 using depth charges in the English Channel, killing all 25 crew on board.[23]
- German raiding ship SMS Möwe captured and scuttled Canadian cargo ship Mount Temple in the Atlantic Ocean north of the Azores Islands. The cargo included military equipment, cavalry horses, and newly discovered fossils of the dinosaur Corythosaurus en route to the British Museum.[24]
- Born: Kristján Eldjárn, Icelandic state leader, 3rd President of Iceland, in Svarfaðardalur, Iceland (d. 1982)
- Died: John Dustin Archbold, American industrialist, vice-president of the Standard Oil Company and president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, the precursor for Esso (b. 1848); Joseph T. Jones, American industrialist, funded construction of the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad and co-founded Gulfport, Mississippi (b. 1842)
- Died: Powhatan Beaty, American soldier, member of the 5th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, recipient for the Medal of Honor for taking command of his unit during the Battle of Chaffin's Farm (b. 1837); Edward Manning Bigelow, American engineer and city planner, director of public works for City of Pittsburgh from 1888 to 1916 and designer of the city's modern park system (b. 1850)
December 7, 1916 (Thursday)
- German submarine SM UB-46 struck a mine and sank in the Black Sea with the loss of all 20 crew.[25]
- Born: George Russell Weller, American salesman, elderly driver involved in the Santa Monica Farmers Market crash in Santa Monica, California in 2003 (d. 2010); John Wilmer Browning Barr, Canadian physician, 24th Surgeon General of Canada, in Lanark, Ontario (d. 2007)
December 8, 1916 (Friday)
- The Cavalry Division of India was established for service in the Mesopotamian Campaign.[26]
- Born: Richard Fleischer, American film director, known for big budget epics including Barabbas, Fantastic Voyage, Doctor Dolittle, and Tora! Tora! Tora!, in New York City (d. 2006); T. K. Whitaker, Irish economist, established the Economic and Social Research Institute of Ireland, in Rostrevor, Ireland (still alive in 2016)
- Born: Robert N. Burr, American historian, established the Latin American Studies program at University of California, Los Angeles, in Rochester, New York (d. 2014); Bernice Fisher, American civil rights activist, co-founder of the Congress of Racial Equality, in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania (d. 1966)
- Died: John Porter Merrell, American naval officer, leading naval commander in the Spanish–American War, 11th President of the Naval War College (b. 1846); Germán Riesco, Chilean state leader, 14th President of Chile (b. 1854)
December 9, 1916 (Saturday)
- U.S. Navy destroyer USS Shaw was launched by Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California but would serve the bulk of its time with the U.S. Coast Guard until it was struck in 1934.[27]
- The Yiddish drama The Dybbuk by S. Ansky premiered at the Elizeum Theater in Warsaw. A story about a Yiddish woman being possessed by a malicious spirit, the first production was done in Russian. Ansky would later translate the play to Yiddish, where it was performed in that language by Vilna Troupe in 1920 shortly after his death.[28]
- Born: Kirk Douglas, American actor, best known for his performance as Vincent Van Gogh in Lust for Life and the slave rebel leader in Spartacus, father to Michael Douglas, in Amsterdam, New York (still alive in 2018); Thomas J. Lynch, American air force officer, commander of the 39th Fighter Squadron during World War Two, recipient of the Silver Star and Distinguished Service Cross, in Hazleton, Pennsylvania (d. 1944, killed in action); James Brian Tait, British air force officer, commander of the 617 Squadron during World War Two, recipient of the Distinguished Service Order, in Manchester (d. 2007)
- Born: W. W. Dumas, American politician, Mayor of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana from 1965 to 1980, in Opelousas, Louisiana (d. 1993); I. J. Good, British mathematician, member of the code-breaking team at Bletchley Park during World War Two, in London (d. 2009); Colin McCool, Australian cricketer, played all-rounder for the New South Wales cricket team, Queensland cricket team and Somerset County Cricket Club, in Paddington, New South Wales, Australia (d. 1986)
- Died: Natsume Sōseki, Japanese poet and novelist, best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, and the unfinished work Light and Darkness (b. 1867); Clara Ward, American socialite, became Princesse de Caraman-Chimay when she married Prince Joseph of Belgium (b. 1873)
December 10, 1916 (Sunday)
- The Autonomous Albanian Republic of Korçë was established through a protocol signed between France and a commission of 14 Albanian nationalist leaders.[29][30]
- World War One prevented the Nobel Prize Committee from awarding prizes to the science community. Swedish poet Verner von Heidenstam was chosen to receive Nobel Prize for Literature.[31]
- German raiding ship SMS Möwe captured and scuttled British cargo ship Georgic off the coast of Newfoundland. One crew member was killed in the attack and the other 141 were taken prisoner.[32]
- The De La Salle College Ashfield was established in Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia.[33]
- Born: Walt Arfons, American race care driver, one of the racing pioneers to use jet engines for land speed record racing, half brother to racing driver Art Arfons (d. 2013); Graham MacKinnon, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1956 to 1986, in Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia (d. 1992); John Lloyd Waddy, Australian air force officer and politician, commander of the 80 Squadron during World War Two, member of Parliament of New South Wales from 1962 to 1976, in Sydney (d. 1987)
- Died: Ōyama Iwao, Japanese army officer, one of the founders of the Imperial Japanese Army (b. 1842)
December 11, 1916 (Monday)
- Monastir Offensive – French General Joseph Joffre called off the Allied offensive in Macedonia after failure to break the military deadlock against Bulgaria and to save Romania from defeat. Estimates for Allied casualties, from both combat and disease, may have been as high as 130,000.[34]
- Capture of Yanbu – Royal Navy ships with the Red Sea patrol bombarded Ottoman positions around the port of Yanbu.[35]
- Italian battleship Regina Margherita struck a mine and sank in the Adriatic Sea, killing 675 of the 945 crew on board.[36]
- British Prime Minister Lloyd George established a War Cabinet,[37] with Maurice Hankey as Cabinet Secretary. The War Cabinet eventually developed into the British government's present-day Cabinet Office.[38]
- The Medal for the War Wounded was established for French soldiers wounded in combat, based on a suggestion by French writer Maurice Barrès.[39]
- Born: Pérez Prado, Cuban musician, credited for popularizing the mambo style of music, in Matanzas, Cuba (d. 1989); William McGrath, Irish political leader, founder of Tara in Northern Island, expelled from leadership due to charges of abuse at the Kincora Boys' Home in Belfast, in Belfast (d. 1992)
December 12, 1916 (Tuesday)
- An estimated 10,000 to 18,000 Austrian and Italian soldiers were killed by avalanches in the Dolomites, including 321 on "White Friday". According to some reports, both sides deliberately fired shells into the weakened snowpacks in an attempt to bury the other side.[40]
- Capture of Yanbu – Constant naval bombardments forced Ottoman commander Fakhri Pasha to give up on taking Yanbu and began to direct his forces further south to recapture of the port of Rabegh.[41]
- Albert Thomas became the first Minister of Armaments for the French government.[42]
- Born: Herman Goldner, American politician, Mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida from 1961 to 1967 and 1971 to 1973, in Detroit (d. 2010)
- Died: Albert Lacombe, Canadian missionary, leading Catholic evangelical of Cree and Blackfoot peoples in northwest Canada, founder of the city of St. Albert, Alberta (b. 1827); J. Comyns Carr, English art critic, director of the Grosvenor Gallery and founder of New Gallery in London (b. 1849)
December 13, 1916 (Wednesday)
- Robert Nivelle replaced Joseph Joffre as Commander-in-Chief of the French Army.[43]
- Mesopotamian campaign – A British force of 50,000 men under command of Lieutenant-General Frederick Stanley Maude was mobilized to recapture Kut from the Ottoman Empire in what is now modern-day Iraq.[44]
- Royal Navy destroyer HMS Landrail sank German submarine SM UB-29 using depth charges, killing all 22 of its crew.[45]
- The Whiteheaded Boy, a play by Lennox Robinson, premiered at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.[46]
- The Karl Troop Cross was created by Charles I of Austria to be awarded for distinguished service to all soldiers in the Austrian-Hungarian Army.[47]
- The Werner von Siemens Ring was established as one of the highest German awards in the technical sciences, on the centennial of the birth of German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens.[48]
- Deschutes County, Oregon was established with its county seat in Bend, Oregon.[49]
- Born: Hank Majeski, American baseball player, played third baseman for the Boston Braves, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Athletics, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians and Baltimore Orioles from 1939 to 1955, in Staten Island, New York (d. 1991); Archie Moore, American boxer, longest reigning World Light Heavyweight champion from 1952 to 1962, in Benoit, Mississippi (d. 1998)
- Died: Antonin Mercié, French sculptor and painter, known for major public works including Gloria Victis (b. 1845)
December 14, 1916 (Thursday)
- British cargo ship Russian was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by German submarine SM UB-43 with the loss of 28 crew.[50]
- The German air squadrons Jagdstaffel 26,[51] 28,[52] 30,[53] 31,[54] 32,[55] 33[56] and 35[57] were established in the Luftstreitkräfte (German Air Force).
- Norwegian businessman Peter Brandal established the Kings Bay Company to mine coal on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago north of Norway. Mining operations led to the establishment of the company town of Ny-Ålesund the following year.[58]
- Born: Shirley Jackson, American writer, author of The Haunting of Hill House and the short story The Lottery, in San Francisco (d. 1965); Harold Stewart, Australian poet, known for his poetry collections including Phoenix Wings: Poems 1940-46 and Orpheus and Other Poems, co-collaborator in the Ern Malley hoax, in Drummoyne, New South Wales, Australia (d. 1995); John Freeman, American animator, known for wide range of Disney and Marvel Studios work including Fantasia, Lady And The Tramp, Peter Pan, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, My Little Pony 'n Friends, G.I. Joe and Transformers, in Spokane, Washington (d. 2010)
December 15, 1916 (Friday)
- Battle of Verdun – A French force of four divisions launched a second offensive against a German defense composed of five divisions, following a six-day bombardment, where some 1,169,000 shells, were fired from 827 guns. An intense creeping barrage collapsed the German defense, resulting in a loss of 13,500 men of the 21,000 in.[59]
- American cargo ship Powhatan collided with British cargo ship Telena and sank in Chesapeake Bay off the coast of the United States. She was later salvaged and rebuilt as Cuba.[60][61]
- The Bankura Damodar Railway began operating between the cities Bankura and Rainagar in West Bengal, India.[62]
- Canadian air manufacturer Canadian Aeroplanes was established in Toronto to manufacturer airplanes for Royal Flying Corps Canada.[63]
- Born: Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, discovered with Francis Crick and James Watson the double helix structure in DNA using X-ray diffraction, in Pongaroa, New Zealand (d. 2004); Prince Karl Franz of Prussia, German noble, son of Prince Joachim and Princess Marie-Auguste, grandson to Kaiser Wilhelm II, in Potsdam (d. 1975)
- Born: Buddy Cole, American jazz musician, pianist and frontman for the Buddy Cole Trio, back up band for popular singers including Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney, in Irving, Illinois (d. 1964); Brian Eaton, Australian air force officer, multi-decorated air squadron commander during World War Two including the Silver Star, Distinguished Service Order and Distinguished Flying Cross, in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia (d. 1992); Khadr El-Touni, Egyptian weightlifter, goal medalist in the 1936 Summer Olympics, in Cairo (d. 1956)
- Died: José Maria de Alpoim, Portuguese politician, Minister of Justice and other positions for the First Portuguese Republic (b. 1858); Wilhelm Ralph Merton, German industrialist, founder of the mining company Metallgesellschaft and driving force to establish Goethe University Frankfurt (b. 1848)
December 16, 1916 (Saturday)
- Battle of Verdun – French forces recaptured the French towns of Vacherauville and Louvemont which had been lost to the German offensive in February, along with Louvemont-Côte-du-Poivre.[64]
- Bulgaria ordered the mass arrest and internment of Serbian males that had served in the army as well as all government workers, educators, clergy and journalists in the occupied Serbian territories. This set off a chain of events that led to the Surdulica massacre the following year.[65]
- Icelandic political parties Farmers' Party and Independent Farmers merged to form the Progressive Party of Iceland.[66]
- The German air squadron Jagdstaffel 48 was established in the Luftstreitkräfte.[67]
- Boy Scouts founder Robert Baden-Powell gave the first public display of the new Wolf Cub section of Scouting at Caxton Hall, Westminster.[68]
- The Connaught Tunnel near Revelstoke, British Columbia opened, becoming at the time the longest railway mountain tunnel in the world.[69]
- Born: Harry Gunning, Canadian chemist, leading researcher into petrochemical and oil sands research, president of the University of Alberta from 1974 to 1979, in Toronto (d. 2002); David Hall, American sound technician and archivist, founder of Association for Recorded Sound Collections, in New Rochelle, New York (d. 2012)
- Born: Braulio Alonso, American educator, first Hispanic to be president of the National Education Association, in Tampa, Florida (d. 2010); Abel Carlevaro, Uruguayan musician, leading classic guitar composer and developer of the renowned Carlevaro Technique, in Montevideo (d. 2001)
- Died: William N. Barrett, American politician, member of the Oregon Legislative Assembly from 1880 to 1908 Oregon State Senate from 1909 to 1913, and 8th Mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon (b. 1855); Max von Fabeck, German army officer, leading military leader during the Race to the Sea campaign in 1914 (b. 1854)
- Died: Friedrich Ernst Dorn, German physicist, discovered radon is emitted from radium (b. 1848); Hugo Münsterberg, German-American psychologist, leading researcher in industrial psychology and author of Psychology and Industrial Efficiency (b. 1863)
December 17, 1916 (Sunday)
- Battle of Verdun – The French consolidated a new line from Louvemont-Côte-du-Poivre to Bezonvaux in France, pushing the Germans 7.5 kilometers away from Verdun and taking 11,387 prisoners and 115 guns.[70]
- The Royal Guernsey Light Infantry was established for action on the Western Front,[71] as part of 202nd Brigade and 67th Division.[72]
- Born: Penelope Fitzgerald, English novelist, author of many acclaimed historical novels including The Blue Flower, in Lincoln, England (d. 2000); Martin A. Pomerantz, American physicist, leading research and promoter of Antarctic astronomy, in New York City (d. 2008)
- Born: Hugh Norman-Walker, British civil servant, Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1969 to 1973, in London (d. 1985); Arnold Olsen, American politician, U.S. Representative from Montana from 1961 to 1971, in Butte, Montana (d. 1990)
- Died: Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier, French clergy, 76th Master of the Order of Preachers, beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1994 (b. 1832)
December 18, 1916 (Monday)
- Battle of Verdun – The battle officially ended in German defeat. Estimates of casualties varied, with most recent estimates placing the average at 377,000 French casualties and 337,000 German casualties.[73][74]
- The Philadelphia Grand Opera Company debuted with a performance of the Gaetano Donizetti opera Lucia di Lammermoor before disbanding shortly after and reforming in 1920.[75]
- Born: Betty Grable, American actress, set a record 12 consecutive years in top box office hits including Mother Wore Tights and How to Marry a Millionaire, in St. Louis (d. 1973); Douglas Fraser, Scottish-American union leader, president of the United Automobile Workers from 1977 to 1983, in Glasgow (d. 2008)
- Born: Rostislav Alexeyev, Russian engineer, designer of the first ground effect vehicle, in Novozybkov, Russia (d. 1980); Franciszek Kornicki, Polish fighter pilot, served with both the Polish and Royal Air Force during World War Two, recipient of the Cross of Valour, in Wereszyn, Poland (still alive in 2016)
- Died: Henry Mitchell Jones, Irish army officer, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, Crimea (b. 1831); Giulia Valle, Italian nun, member of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joan Antida Thoure and known educator in Turin, beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2004 (b. 1847)
December 19, 1916 (Tuesday)
- The Imperial Camel Corps was established under command of Brigadier General Clement Leslie Smith as a special desert fighting unit in the Senussi Campaign.[76]
- The 3rd U.S. Marine Regiment was reactivated using assets from the 1st Marine Regiment in the Dominican Republic.[77]
- Born: Roy Ward Baker, English film director, best known for the Titanic drama A Night to Remember, in London (d. 2010); Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist, developed the theory of spiral of silence that influences public opinion, author of The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion – Our Social Skin, in Berlin (d. 2010); Ted Gaskell, English association football player, goalkeeper for Brentford F.C. from 1937 to 1952, in Bredbury, England (d. 2009)
- Died: Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck, German noble and industrialist, inheritor and owner of several mining and steelworks operations around Silesia, considered the wealthiest Europeans of his generation (b. 1830); Doug Allison, American baseball player, catcher for the Cincinnati Red Stockings, first ball player to use a glove, brother to Art Allison (b. 1846); Thibaw Min, Burmese monarch, last king of the Konbaung Dynasty (b. 1859)
December 20, 1916 (Wednesday)
- Ross Sea Party – The British polar exploration ship Aurora departed for Cape Evans in the Antarctic to rescue the final expedition members of the second arm Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, with expedition leader Ernest Shackleton on board as a supernumerary officer.[78]
- The United States Marines reactivated the 3rd Marine Regiment in the Dominican Republic.[79]
- German flying ace Manfred von Richthofen (nicknamed the Red Baron) shot down and killed British flying ace Arthur Gerald Knight in act of vengeance for Knight causing the mid-air collision that killed German ace Oswald Boelcke on October 28.[80]
- Born: Michel Chartrand, Canadian labor activist, president of Confédération des syndicats nationaux from 1968 to 1978, in Outremont, Quebec (d. 2010); Jesus C. Azurin, Filipino physician and health administrator, Minister of the Health for the Philippines from 1981 to 1986 (d. 1990)
- Born: Geoffrey Appleyard, British army officer, recipient of the Distinguished Service Order for commando missions during World War Two including Operation Postmaster and Operation Basalt, in Bramley, Leeds, England (d. 1943, killed during the Allied invasion of Sicily)
- Died: Scoops Carey, American baseball player, first baseman for the Baltimore Orioles, Louisville Colonels, and Washington Senators (b. 1870); Harry Marks, British journalist, founder of Financial News (b. 1855); Arthur Morgan, Australian politician, Premier of Queensland, Australia from 1903 to 1906 (b. 1856); Henry Wallis, English painter, known for works including The Death of Chatterton (b. 1830)
December 21, 1916 (Thursday)
- The British Desert Column occupied El Arish during advance across the Sinai Peninsula.[81]
- The British House of Commons announced all Irish prisoners involved in the Easter Rising were to be released.[82]
- Royal Navy destroyer HMS Hoste collided with fellow fleet destroyer HMS Negro in the North Sea during heavy weather. Both vessels sank, with the loss of all 80 crew on the Negro, while another destroyer was able to rescue most of the crew from the Hoste.[83]
- Born: Maurice Chappaz, Swiss poet, known for many poetic works including Chant de la Grande Dixence, in Lausanne, Switzerland (d. 2009)
December 22, 1916 (Friday)
- The Government of Denmark ratified the Treaty of the Danish West Indies, following a referendum on December 14, which would allow the United States to purchase the Danish West Indies for $25 million.[84]
- The Desert Column was established under command of Field Marshal Philip Chetwode as part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.[85]
- Royal Navy submarine HMS E30 struck a mine and sank in the North Sea with all 30 crew lost.[86]
- British pilot Harry Hawker flew the first prototype of the Sopwith Camel, which was designed to counter the German Fokker aircraft.[87]
- Born: Fernando Corena, Swiss opera singer, best known for successful with the Metropolitan Opera between 1954 and 1978, in Geneva (d. 1984)
- Died: John Benjamin Murphy, American surgeon, pioneer of the appendectomy and other abdominal surgeries (b. 1857); James Joseph O'Kelly, Irish politician, leading member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, Member of Parliament for Roscommon, Ireland from 1880 to 1916 (b. 1845)
December 23, 1916 (Saturday)
- The Desert Column, composed of Australian and New Zealand mounted troops, captured the Ottoman garrison during the Battle of Magdhaba.[88]
- Born: Robert Blake, British historian, author the 1966 biography on Benjamin Disraeli and The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill, in Brundall, Norfolk, England (d. 2003); Noel Dyson, English actress, best known for her role as Ida Barlow in the long-running BBC soap opera Coronation Street and the sitcom Father, Dear Father, in Manchester (d. 1995)
- Died: Erve Beck, American baseball player, second baseman for the Cincinnati Reds and Detroit Tigers (b. 1878); Henry Farny, French-American painter, best known for depictions of Indigenous peoples in the American West, member of the Cincinnati Art Club (b. 1847); James Little, Irish physician, chief physician of Adelaide Hospital in Dublin (b. 1837)
December 24, 1916 (Sunday)
- A partial solar eclipse occurred over the south Indian Ocean.[89]
- Born: Ron G. Mason, English oceanographer, discovered magnetic stripping on the seafloor during geomagnetic survey work during the Cold War, in Winsor, England (d. 2009); Frederick Mosteller, American statistician, founding chair of the statistics department at Harvard University, in Clarksburg, West Virginia (d. 2006); Jefferson W. Speck, American politician, Republican nominee with 1950 and 1952, in Mississippi County, Arkansas (d. 1993)
- Born: P. Shilu Ao, Indian politician, member of the Naga people who was chief negotiator for the state of Nagaland in northeast India in 1963, in Mokokchung district, India (d. 1988); Cook Cleland, American pilot, recipient of the Navy Cross, winner of the 1947 and 1949 Thompson Trophy, in Cleveland (d. 2007); Cecília Schelingová, Slovak nun, aided priests fleeing Czechoslovakia during a communist crackdown before imprisoned, beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2003, in Krivá, Slovakia (d. 1955)
December 25, 1916 (Monday)
- The last group of Irish prisoners involved in the Easter Rising — 460 men from Reading Gaol — were released in Dublin, including Irish nationalists Seán T. O'Kelly and Arthur Griffith.[90]
- The Mexican polka "Jesusita en Chihuahua" by Quirino Mendoza y Cortés was first performed by a military marching band during Christmas festivities in Puebla, Mexico.[91]
- Born: Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian state leader, first President of Algeria, in Maghnia, Algeria (d. 2012); Karl Buesgen, American artist, member of the Baum Circle in Pennsylvania, in Allentown, Pennsylvania (d. 1981); John McManners, British clergy and historian, author of Death and the Enlightenment and Church and Society in Eighteenth-century France, in Ferryhill, England (d. 2006)
- Born: Graciela Naranjo, Venezuelan singer and actress, major star on the TV variety series for Televisa during her mid-career, mother of Alberto Naranjo, in Maiquetía, Venezuela (d. 2001); Noel Annan, British academic, author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, in London (d. 2000); Redmond Cunningham, Irish military officer, recipient of the Military Cross from action during D-Day, in Waterford, Ireland (d. 1999)
- Died: Albert Chmielowski, Polish clergy, founder of the Albertine Brothers order (b. 1845)
December 26, 1916 (Tuesday)
- Imperial German Navy airships made the first bombing mission against the Russian Empire, targeting Petrograd which was the royal seat of the empire. Bad weather prevented the airships from reaching their targets and one was forced to land in German-occupied Russia, where strong winds eventually destroyed her three days later.[92]
- Born: Noel Agazarian, British fighter pilot, earned flying ace commendation for seven victories during Battle of Britain, brother to Jack Agazarian, in London (d. 1941, killed during a mission in Libya)
- Died: Janis Rozentāls, Latvian painter, known for such works as "Women and the Spirits of Nature" and "Daughters of Sun]] (b. 1866)
December 27, 1916 (Wednesday)
- Togoland was divided into British and French administrative zones.[93]
- French battleship Gaulois was torpedoed and sunk in the Aegean Sea by German submarine SM UB-47, killing four crew members.[94]
- Nicholas II of Russia dismissed Alexander Trepov as Prime Minister of Russia and replaced him with Nikolai Golitsyn, despite the latter's protest he was unprepared to take up the position.[95]
- British flying ace John Quested shot down and killed German ace Gustav Leffers who was flying a captured French aircraft, before being forced down by another German plane.[96]
- Born: John Duckworth, British physicist, one of the developers of Great Britain's radar defense during World War Two, in London (d. 2015); Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot. commander of the Kampfgeschwader 200 bomb squadron for the Luftwaffe during World War Two, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, in Cloppenburg, Germany (d. 1953, killed in a plane crash)
- Born: Cathy Lewis, American actress, best known for her radio and TV work including the radio-TV comedy My Friend Irma, in Spokane, Washington (d. 1968); Johnny Frigo, American jazz musician, jazz violinist and bassist who composed the jazz standard "Detour Ahead", in Chicago (d. 2007)
December 28, 1916 (Thursday)
- A strong La Niña created heavy rain and flooding in Clermont, Queensland, Australia, claiming more than 60 lives. Melbourne and Hobart each received a record 967.5 millimetres (38.09 in)[97] and 1,104.2 millimetres (43.47 in) of annual rainfall respectively.[98]
- Six German Navy airships attempted a raid on England but are recalled due to bad weather. One airship was unable to return to base and landed nearby, where she was battered to pieces by wind.[99]
- While ground crewman were walking the German Navy Zeppelin L 24 to her shed at Tondern, Germany, high winds picked up and slammed the airship against her hangar before catching fire. She and the Zeppelin L 17, which was in the hangar, were destroyed in the resulting blaze.[100]
- The German air squadron Jagdstaffel 29 was established in the Luftstreitkräfte.[101]
- Died: Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer, member of the renowned Strauss family, son to Johann Strauss, best known for his dance compositions for the waltz, polka and march (b. 1835); Tarleton Hoffman Bean, American biologist, recorded and classified indigenous fish on northeastern United States and its eastern seaboard, as well as Alaska (b. 1846)
December 29, 1916 (Friday)
- British cargo ship Alondra was wrecked off the coast of Ireland, with 17 crew members perishing while another 23 were rescued.[102]
- The United States Government passed the Stock-Raising Homestead Act, which allowed allowed 640 acres (260 ha) of public land to be used by settlers for ranching purposes.[103]
- James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was first published complete in book form in New York City.[104]
- George Noble Plunkett was dismissed from his post as curator of the National Museum of Ireland and deported to Oxford, due to his son, Joseph Plunkett, being one of the leaders of the Easter Rising.[105]
- The 25th Avenue and Bay Parkway elevated train stations opened in New York City.[106] Bay Parkway was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[107]
- Born: Frederick Lippitt, American army officer and politician, member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1961 to 1983, grandson of Rhode Island Governor Henry Lippitt, in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 2005); William Watson, American athlete, first African-American to win the Amateur Athletic Union decathlon championship in 1940, in Boley, Oklahoma (d. 1973)
December 30, 1916 (Saturday)
- Humberto Gómez and his mercenaries seized Arauca in Colombia and declared the Republic of Arauca. He proceeded to pillage the region before fleeing to Venezuela.
- The mystic Grigori Rasputin was murdered by Russian noble Felix Yusupov and other conspirators in Petrograd.[108]
- Born: Len Astill, English association football player, midfielder for the Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. and Blackburn Rovers F.C., in Wolverhampton, England (d. 1990); James Mitose, American martial artist, introduced the Japanese art of Kenpo to the United States, in Kailua, Hawaii County, Hawaii (d. 1981)
December 31, 1916 (Sunday)
- Members of the Indian National Congress Party and the All-India Muslim League formed a political alliance known as the Lucknow Pact during joint sessions held in Lucknow, India to promote self-government and independence from British rule.
- Douglas Haig was promoted to Field Marshal of the British Army.[109]
- By the end of 1916, 17,341 commissioned officers and men were deployed in Great Britain for home air defense, including 12,000 to man antiaircraft guns and 2,200 assigned to 12 Royal Flying Corps squadrons composed of 110 aeroplanes.[110]
- Royal Air Force No. 206 and No. 207 Squadrons were established.[111][112]
- The Imperial German Army established the 2nd Bavarian Landwehr Division and was active until disbanding in 1919.[113]
- The Hampton Terrace Hotel in North Augusta, South Carolina, one of the largest and most luxurious hotels in the United States at the time, burned to the ground.
- Born: Leo Kahn, American business executive, co-founder of office retailer Staples Inc. and founder of the Fresh Fields and Nature's Heartland chain (now part of Whole Foods Market), in Medford, Massachusetts (d. 2011); Ítalo Argentino Lúder, Argentine politician, served at acting President of Argentina in 1975 and President of the Argentine Senate from 1974 to 1976, in Rafaela, Argentina (d. 2008)
- Died: Alice Ball, American chemist, first African-American woman to practice chemistry, developed an effective drug treatment for leprosy, died from chemical poisoning during her research (b. 1892); Kazimierz Alchimowicz, Polish-Lithuanian painter, known for his tableaus Goplana (inspired by the play Balladyna by Juliusz Słowacki) and Pan Tadeusz, based on the epic poem by Adam Mickiewicz (b. 1840)
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