yesterwire.comBack to search

On the date

Sunday, September 17, 1916

From the day

Memories from that day

No memories yet. Add yours if you remember this day.

The Headlines

CLAIM BIG VICTORY OVER RUMANIANS; Germans Assert They Are Pursuing Defeated Forces in Province of Dobrudja. BULGARS IN SOUTH FLEEING Serbs, Aided by Russians and French, Advancing Rapidly Toward Monastir.

Read in The New York Times →

Best-selling Sheet Music

Poor Butterfly

Raymond Hubbell

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

On This Day

  • World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.

    Wikipedia →

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

lousysnapshotmovies

Soldiers

over the topblightyno man's landcooties

Suffragette

deeds not wordsvotes for women

Catchphrases of 1916

  • He kept us out of war

Tech Check

Toggle Light Switch, Electric Clock & Submachine Guns.

Cost of Living (1910)

Loaf of Bread

$0.06

Gallon of Gas

$0.15

Average Home

$3,600

New Car

$950

Time Elapsed

40,073 days ago

(109 years, 288 days)