1916

Battle of Verdun

First Rose Bowl football game
1st use of tanks in warfare
Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo
Gregory Rasputin killed
Pancho Villa raids into New Mexico from Mexico
1st Rose Bowl football game
National Park Service established
Ford's Model T touring car price: $360
John D. Rockefeller becomes a billionaire (back when a billion WAS a billion!)
Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems
Theory of Relativity
Mr. Peanut introduced as the mascot of Planter's Peanuts
Coca-Cola introduces its iconic bottle shape
The 1st Piggly-Wiggly opens in Memphis, Tenn. - the 1st supermarket chain
Film - "Intolerance"
Yehudi Menuhin, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath born
James Whitcomb Riley, Henry James, and Jack London die