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May[edit] Main article: May 1916

May 31–June 1:Battle of Jutland between Allies and Germany May 16

United States Marines invade the Dominican Republic.

May 31–June 1 – WWI: Battle of Jutland, between the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet[2] in the North Sea, the war's only large-scale clash of battleships. The result is tactically inconclusive, but British dominance of the North Sea is maintained.

June[edit] Main article: June 1916 June 4 – WWI: The Brusilov Offensive, the height of Russian operations in the war, begins with their breaking through Austro-Hungarian lines.

June 5 – WWI: HMS Hampshire sinks, having hit a mine off the Orkney Islands, Scotland, with Lord Kitchener aboard.

June 15 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America.[3] July[edit] Main article: July 1916

July 1–November 18:Battle of the Somme between British and German.

July 1–November 18 – WWI: Battle of the Somme, opening with explosion of the British Y Sap mine and the Battle of Albert: More than one million soldiers die, with 57,470 British Empire casualties on the first day, 19,240 of them killed, the British Army's bloodiest day.[4] The immediate result is tactically inconclusive.

July 1–12 – Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916: At least one shark attacks 5 swimmers along 80 miles (130 km) of New Jersey coastline, resulting in 4 deaths and the survival of one youth, who requires limb amputation. This event is the inspiration for author Peter Benchley, over half a century later, to write Jaws.

July 15 – In Seattle, William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).

July 15–19 – WWI: Battle of Delville Wood – 766 men from the South African Brigade are killed, in South Africa's biggest loss during the First World War.

July 19–20 – WWI: Battle of Fromelles – An attack by Australian and British troops is repulsed by the German army, with heavy casualties.

July 22 – Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade, killing 10 and injuring 40; Warren Billings and Tom Mooney are later wrongly convicted of it.

July 26 – WWI: East African Campaign – The German armed ship SMS Graf von Goetzen scuttles herself on Lake Tanganyika.

July 29 – Matheson Fire: In Ontario, Canada, a lightning strike ignites a forest fire that destroys the towns of Cochrane and Matheson, killing 233.

August[edit] Main article: August 1916

August – Robert Baden-Powell publishes The Wolf Cub's Handbook in the U.K., establishing the basis of the junior section of the Scouting movement, the Wolf Cubs (modern-day Cub Scouts).

August 3–5 – WWI: Sinai and Palestine Campaign – Battle of Romani: British Imperial troops secure victory over a joint Ottoman-German force.

August 7 – WWI: Portugal joins the Allies.

French and British forces make an unopposed entry into German-controlled Togoland; on December 27 the country is partitioned between the two allies.

August 9 – Lassen Volcanic National Park is established in California.

August 15 – Club Atlas is founded as an association football club in Guadalajara, Mexico, by English-educated players.

August 21 – WWI: Peru declares neutrality.

August 25 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs legislation, creating the National Park Service.

August 29 – The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.

August 30 – The crew of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition's Endurance is rescued from Elephant Island.