LIFE 1916
- U.S. National Park Service is created by Congress.
- Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in the country in Brooklyn.
- Charlie Chaplin signs with Mutual Studios and earns an unprecedented $10,000 a week.
- Albert Einstein completes his general theory of relativity.
- First Norman Rockwell cover appears on The Saturday Evening Post.
- Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin is murdered by two Romanov family members.
- In Browning, MT, the temperature drops from 44 °F to −56 °F in one day, the greatest change ever on record for a 24-hour period.
- The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (modern-day Wrigley Field).
- William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products (later renamed The Boeing Company).
- The first true self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, is founded in Tennessee.
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