Timeline September 1916

Events in September 1916 5

• 1916 Brusilov Offensive Major Russian offensive against Austro-Hungarian forces Russian General Alexei Brusilov launched a massive offensive against Austro-Hungarian forces along the Eastern Front. It was one of the most successful Russian offensives of the war, inflicting huge casualties but exhausting Russian reserves in the process.
• 1916 The Brusilov Offensive Galicia, Eastern Front The most successful Russian operation of the war, and one of the most lethal offensives in history. It broke the Austro-Hungarian army as an independent force and exhausted Russia's own.
• 1916 – 1990 Roald Dahl Writer, 1916-1990 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda Welsh-born writer of children's books and macabre short stories, and an RAF fighter pilot before that.
• 1916 Tanks go into action Flers-Courcelette, France Forty-nine Mark I tanks were sent forward on the Somme; most broke down or ditched. The idea worked well enough to be worth persisting with.
• 1916 – 1977 Peter Finch (1916-1977) Died 14 January 1977, aged 60 Peter Finch was a British-Australian actor best known for his role as a deranged newsman in the film Network. He died of a heart attack shortly before winning a posthumous Academy Award for the role.