Editing 1916

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== Events ==
* January 18 - [[Theodore Bilbo]] is elected Governor of Mississippi.
* March 8 to 9 - [[Pancho Villa]] leads about 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 12 U.S. soldiers. A garrison of the U.S. 13th Cavalry Regiment fights back and drives them away.
* May 15 - 17-year old farmhand Jesse Washington is brutally [[Lynching|lynched]] in Waco, Texas after being accused of raping and murdering his white employer's wife.
* July 1 - Beginning of the Battle of the Somme.
* November 7 - U.S. President [[Woodrow Wilson]] wins reelection during the 1916 presidential election.
* November 18 - End of the Battle of the Somme.
* December 30 - [[Grigori Rasputin]] is assassinated in St. Petersburg by a group of conservative noblemen who oppose his influence over Tsar [[Nicholas II]].

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* January 7 - [[Elena Ceaușescu]]
* January 12 - [[P.W Botha]]
* December 16 - [[James Camb]]

=== Victim births ===
* January 23 - Airey Neave

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* February 18 - [[Hans Schmidt]]
* April 19 - [[Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz]]
* June 6 - [[Yuan Shikai]]
* December 30 - [[Grigori Rasputin]]
=== Victim deaths ===
* May 15 - Jesse Washington