The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1916
Santino 'Sonny' Corleone born. (The Godfather)
Captain Elliott Spenser (Pinhead) suffers a mental breakdown after the Battle of Flanders (Hellraiser)
Actors Lucky Day, Dusty Bottoms and Ned Nederlander take a stand against the infamous El Guapo. (Santa Poco, Mexico) (Three Amigos)
Saturday 8th January: Allied forces stage a full retreat from the shores of the Gallipoli Peninsula. (Turkey) (Gallipoli)
Friday 28th January: President Woodrow Wilson nominates Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court. (Wilson)
Thursday 10th February: Lindley Garrison resigns as U.S. Secretary of War. (Wilson)
Thursday 9th March: Angered over American support of his rivals for the control of Mexico, the peasant-born revolutionary leader attacks the border town. (Columbus, New Mexico) (Pancho Villa)
Monday 24th April: Easter Rebellion begins. (Dublin, Ireland) (Michael Collins)
Saturday 3rd June: US President Woodrow Wilson signs National Defense Act. (Wilson)
Friday 9th June: Robert McNamara is born. (San Francisco, California) (Thirteen Days)
Thursday 27th July: German officials execute Captain Charles Fryatt, the former commander of the Great Eastern Railway steamship Brussels, after a German court martial found him guilty of making an attack on a German submarine. (Bruges, Belgium) (Murder of Captain Fryatt, The )
Sunday 17th September: Manfred von Richthofen shoots down his first plane. (Red Baron, The )
Tuesday 21st November: Emperor Franz Josef dies. (Austria) (Mayerling)
Wednesday 22nd November: Jack London dies from kidney failure. (Glen Ellen, California) (Jack London)
Sunday 26th November: Thomas Edward Lawrence, a junior member of the British government’s Arab Bureau during World War I, publishes a detailed report analyzing the revolt led by the Arab leader Sherif Hussein against the Ottoman Empire. (Lawrence of Arabia)
Monday 4th December: W. Somerset Maugham departs on a voyage to Pago Pago. (The Razor's Edge)