1915

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Table of contents

1 Events

1.1 Ongoing events

2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

January 12 - The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of Congress.
January 12 - United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote.
January 19 - George Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
January 19 - German zeppelins bomb the cities of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom for the first time, killing more than 20.
January 21 - Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
January 27 - United States Marines occupy Haiti.
January 28 - An act of the United States Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
January 31 - World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russians.
February 8 - The controversial film The Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith premieres (Los Angeles, California).
February 12 - In Washington, DC the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
March 3 - NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
March 14 - World War I: Off the coast of Chile, the Royal Navy sinks the German battleship SMS Dresden.
March 18 - World War I: British attack on the Dardanelles fails.
March 19 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet.
April 22 - World War I: Second Battle of Ypres - German troops introduce poison gas at Ypres, Belgium.
April 24 - Turkish troops attack the Armenian region of Van, starting the Armenian Genocide.
April 25 - The Anzac tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.
April 30 - Australian submarine AE2 sunk in Sea of Marmora.
May 7 - World War I: The RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat killing 1,198.
May 9 - World War I: Second Battle of Artois - German and French forces fight.
May 17 - The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
May 22 - Quintinshill railway disaster, Scotland, UK. 200 killed.
May 23 - World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
June 9 - U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking.
June 16 - foundation of the British Women's Institute
June 24 - The steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago, and over 800 people die.
August 6 - World War I: Battle of Sari Bair begins - The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
August 17 - Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia.
September 6 - The first prototype tank is tested for the British Army for the first time.
October 12 - World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium.
Alfred Wegener proposes the theory of Pangea.
Emory College is rechartered as Emory University, and plans to move its main campus from Oxford, Georgia to Atlanta.
U.S recognizes government of President Venustiano Carranza of Mexico.
Lord Beaverbrook buys the London Daily Express.
Automobile speed record of 102.6 m.p.h set at Sheepshead Bay, N.Y. by Gil Anderson driving a Stutz.
The first stop sign appears in Detroit, Michigan.

Ongoing events

Births

January 14 - Mark Goodson, game show producer and television pioneer (d. 1992)
January 20 - Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan
January 24 Ö Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 1991)
February 1 Ö Artur London, Czech statesman (d. 1986)
April 4 - Muddy Waters, blues musician (d. 1983)
April 7 - Billie Holiday, jazz and blues singer
May 1 - Archie Williams, American athlete
May 6 - Orson Welles, American director (Citizen Kane)
May 20 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader, politician (d. 1981)
August 22 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
December 7 - Eli Wallach, actor
December 12 - Frank Sinatra, American entertainer
December 19 - Edith Piaf, French singer

Deaths

January 15 - Mary Slessor, Scottish Christian missionary to West Africa (b. 1848)
February 5 - Ross Barnes, baseball player
March 31 - Wyndham Halswelle, British runner
April 23 - Rupert Brooke, poet
July 16 - Ellen G. White, prophetess, co-founder of Seventh-Day Adventism
September 9 - Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer
October 12 - Charles Sorley, poet
November 15 - Booker T. Washington, African-American educator