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September[edit] Main article: September 1916

September 2 – WWI: British pilot Leefe Robinson becomes the first to shoot down a German airship over Britain.

September 4 – WWI: East African Campaign – Dar es Salaam surrenders to British Empire forces, securing them control of the Central Line of railway through German East Africa.

September 5 – D. W. Griffith's film Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages is released in the United States.

September 6 – The first true self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, is founded in Memphis, Tennessee, by Clarence Saunders, opening 5 days later.[5]

September 11 – A mechanical failure causes the central span of the Quebec Bridge, a cantilever-type structure, to crash into the Saint Lawrence River for the second time, killing 13 workers.

September 13 – Mary, a circus elephant, is hanged in the town of Erwin, Tennessee for killing her handler, Walter "Red" Eldridge.

September 19 – WWI: East African Campaign – Belgian troops occupy Tabora in German East Africa.

September 27 – Iyasu V of Ethiopia is deposed in a palace coup, in favour of his aunt Zewditu. October[edit]

Main article: October 1916 October 7 – the Georgia Tech and Cumberland College football game ends in a score of 222-0.

October 12 – Hipólito Yrigoyen is elected President of Argentina.

October 14 – Perm State University is founded in Russia.

October 16 – Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth control clinic, a forerunner of Planned Parenthood.

October 20 – Black Friday (1916): A violent and deadly storm hits Lake Erie in the United States.

October 21 – Friedrich Adler shoots Count Karl von Stürgkh, Minister-President of Austria.

October 27 – Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael of Wollo, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu. November[edit]

Main article: November 1916

November 1

Pavel Milyukov delivers his "stupidity or treason" speech in the Russian State Duma, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.

The first 40-hour work week officially begins, in the Endicott-Johnson factories of Western New York.

November 5

Everett massacre: An armed confrontation in Everett, Washington, between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World results in seven deaths.

Honan Chapel, Cork, Ireland, a product of the Irish Arts and Crafts movement (1894–1925), is dedicated.

November 7 U.S. presidential election, 1916: Democratic President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeats Republican Charles E. Hughes.

Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.

Radio station 2XG, located in the Highbridge section of New York City, makes the first audio broadcast of presidential election returns.

November 13 – Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party, over his support for conscription.

November 21

WWI: Hospital ship HMHS Britannic, designed as the third Olympic-class ocean liner for White Star Line, sinks in the Kea Channel of the Aegean Sea after hitting a mine; 30 lives are lost. At 48,158 gross register tons, she is the largest ship lost during the war.

December[edit] Main article: December 1916

December 16 – Robert Baden-Powell gives the first public display of the new Wolf Cub section of Scouting at Caxton Hall, Westminster.

December 18 – WWI: The Battle of Verdun ends in France with German troops defeated.

December 23 – WWI: The Desert Column captures the Ottoman garrison during the Battle of Magdhaba.

December 30 Humberto Gómez and his mercenaries seize Arauca in Colombia and declare the Republic of Arauca. He proceeds to pillage the region before fleeing to Venezuela.

(December 17 Old Style) – The mystic Grigori Rasputin is murdered in Saint Petersburg.

December 31 – The Hampton Terrace Hotel in North Augusta, South Carolina, one of the largest and most luxurious hotels in the United States at the time, burns to the ground.