February 1916 in History

Events in History

Feb 10 Biggest oil well gusher ever - Edward L. Doheny's Cerro Azul No. 4 first gushes 600 feet in the air near Tampico, Mexico

Feb 11 Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
Feb 11 Germany and Austria-Hungary notify the US that they will sink any armed merchant ships starting on 1 March
Feb 16 Russian troops conquer the Ottoman Empire city of Erzurum during WWI
Feb 16 The US rejects the right of Germany and Austria-Hungary to sink armed merchant ships

Feb 16 The German ambassador in Washington announces that Germany will pay an indemnity for American lives lost on the Lusitania

Feb 18 The last German garrison in the German colony of Cameroons surrenders
Feb 21 World War I: Battle of Verdun begins with a German offensive, leads to an estimated 1 million casualties and becomes the longest battle of the entire war (9 months)
Feb 22 The House-Grey Memorandum, drafted by US and Britain, states: 'Should the Allies accept [the American idea of a conference to end the war] and should Germany refuse it, the United States would "probably" enter the war against Germany'
Feb 23 US Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin
Feb 25 Battle of Verdun: German troops conquer Fort Douaumont without firing a shot, the largest and highest fort defending the city of Verdun during World War I
Feb 26 Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930
Feb 26 Russian troops conquer Kermansjah, Persia

Feb 1 Gordon Hobday, Lord Lieutenant (Nottinghamshire)
Feb 2 Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (d. 1985)
Feb 3 Vivien Signy, nurse (d. 1997)
Feb 4 Basil Hembry, farmer/campaigner
Feb 4 Gavin Buchanan Ewart, English poet (Pleasures of the Flesh)
Feb 4 Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi Sufi Order (d. 1980)
Feb 6 John Crank, British mathematician, born in Hindley, United Kingdom (d. 2006)
Feb 10 Edward R. Roybal, American politician (Rep-D-CA, 1963-93), born in Pecos, New Mexico (d. 2005)
Feb 11 Bernice Levin Neugarten, social scientist/gerontologist
Feb 12 Joseph L Alioto, American politician (Mayor-San Francisco), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1998)
Feb 14 Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese director (Joi-uchi)

Feb 6 Anne C A I van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist, dies at 73
Feb 6 Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
Feb 12 Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers), dies at 84
Feb 14 Petko Todorov, Bulgarian writer (Zmejova), dies at 36
Feb 16 Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist, dies at 79
Feb 16 [Gerard] Jan Ligthart, Dutch educator (Ot & Sien), dies at 57
Feb 19 Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist, philosopher and psychologist, dies at 78
Feb 20 Klas Arnoldson, Swedish politician and pacifist (Nobel Peace 1908), dies at 71
Feb 28 Henry James, American-British writer (Bostonians), dies at 72