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'''1915''' ('''
Roman numerals MCMXV''') was a
common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
Events
{{Year C}}
*
January 12 - The
Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress.
*
January 12 -
United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote.
*
January 13 – An earthquake (6.8 in Richter scale) in
Avezzano,
Italy - 32.610 dead
*
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 - Chinese president
Yuan Shikai declares himself Emperor
*
January 28 - An act of the
Congress of the United States U.S. 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 -
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics 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 SMS ''Dresden''.
*
March 14 -
United Kingdom Britain,
France and
Russia agree to give
Constantinople and the
Bosporus to Russia in case of victory (the treaty is later nullified by the Bolshevik revolution)
*
March 18 - World War I:
United Kingdom British attack on the
Dardanelles fails.
*
March 19 -
Pluto (planet) Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a
planet.
*
March 25 -
United States US submarine F-4 sinks off
Hawaii - 21 dead
*
March 28 - The first
Roman Catholic Liturgy is celebrated by
Archbishop John Ireland (archbishop) John Ireland at the newly consecrated
Cathedral of Saint Paul (Minnesota) Cathedral of Saint Paul in
Saint Paul, Minnesota Saint Paul,
Minnesota.
*
April 13 -
Mexican Revolution -
Pancho Villa's attack against
Alvaro Obregon's troops in
Celaya. Charge of Villa's troops is no match against Obregon's
barbed wire and
machine guns
*
April 22 -
World War I:
Second Battle of Ypres -
Germany German troops introduce
poison gas at
Ypres,
Belgium.
*
April 24 - The
Ottoman Empire arrests hundreds of
Armenians Armenian intellectuals, executing most. Armenians mark this as the start of the
Armenian Genocide and commemorate the anniversary.
*
April 25 - The
Anzac tradition begins during
World War I with a landing at
Gallipoli on the
Turkey Turkish coast.
*
April 30 -
Australian
submarine AE2 sunk in
Sea of Marmora.
*
May 3 -
John McCrae writes
In Flanders Fields
*
May 7 -
World War I: The
RMS Lusitania RMS ''Lusitania'' is sunk by a
Germany German U-boat killing 1,198.
*
May 9 - World War I:
Second Battle of Artois -
Germany German and
France French forces fight.
*
May 17 - The last purely
Liberal Party (UK) Liberal government in the United Kingdom ends when Prime Minister
Herbert Henry Asquith forms an all party coalition.
*
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 3 - Troops of Obregon and Villa clash at
León, Guanajuato León. Obregon loses his right arm in grenade attack but Villa is decisively defeated
*
June 9 - U.S. Secretary of State
William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the
RMS Lusitania RMS ''Lusitania'' sinking.
*
June 16 - Foundation of the
British Women's Institute
*
July 7 - An extremely overloaded
Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with 157 passengers crashes near
Queenston, Ontario resulting in 15 casualties.
*
July 24 - The steamer ''
Eastland'' capsizes in central
Chicago, Illinois, with the loss of 845 lives.
*
July 28 -
United States occupation of Haiti (1915-1934) United States occupation of Haiti begins
*
August 5 –
August 23 23 - hurricane over
Galveston and
New Orleans – 275 dead
*
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 16 - The Entente promises the
Kingdom of Serbia, should victory be achieved over
Austro-Hungary and it's allied
Central Powers, the territories of Baranja, Srem and Slavonia from the Cisleithanian part of the Dual Monarchy; Bosnia and Herzegovina; and eastern 2/3 of Dalmatia (from the river of Krka to Bar).
*
August 17 -
Jewish American
Leo Frank is
lynching 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.
*
September 7 - Former cartoonist John B. Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.
*
October 12 -
World War I:
United Kingdom British nurse
Edith Cavell is executed by a
Germany German firing squad for helping
Allies Allied soldiers escape from
Belgium.
*
October 19 - US recognizes
Mexico Mexican government of
Victoriano Carranza ''
de facto'' (not ''
de jure'' until
1917)
*
October 27 -
Billy Hughes William Morris Hughes becomes 7th
Prime Minister of Australia.
*
November 25 - The theory of
general relativity is formulated.
*
December 26 -
Irish Republican Brotherhood Military Council decides to stage a rising on Easter Sunday
1916.
Unknown dates
*
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, Georgia Atlanta.
*
Triangle Film Corporation was founded in the summer of this year
*
United States U.S. recognizes government of President
Venustiano Carranza of
Mexico.
*
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook 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.
*
Female suffrage in
Denmark and
Iceland
*
Henri Désiré Landru begins his serial kills
*
Typhoid Mary isolated
Ongoing events
*
World War I (
1914-
1918)
Disputed Events
*
Assyrian Genocide (1914-1922)
*
Armenian Genocide (1915-
1918)
Births
January
*
January 5 -
Arthur H. Robinson, American geographer and cartographer (d.
2004)
*
January 14 -
Mark Goodson, American television game show producer (d.
1992)
*
January 20 -
Ghulam Ishaq Khan,
President of Pakistan
*
January 23 -
Arthur Lewis (economist) Arthur Lewis, British economist,
Nobel Prize in Economics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1991)
*
January 24 -
Robert Motherwell, American painter (d.
1991)
*
January 30 -
Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d.
1976)
*
January 30 -
John Profumo, British cabinet minister (d.
2006)
*
January 31 -
Alan Lomax, American folklorist and musicologist (d.
2002)
*
January 31 -
Thomas Merton, American monk and author (d.
1968)
February
*
February 1 -
Artur London, Czech statesman (d.
1986)
*
February 1 - Sir
Stanley Matthews, English footballer (d.
2000)
*
February 2 -
Khushwant Singh, Indian writer
*
February 4 - Sir
Norman Wisdom, English comedian, singer, and actor
*
February 5 -
Robert Hofstadter, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1990)
*
February 16 -
Jim O'Hora, American college football coach, (d.
2005)
*
February 28 -
Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1987)
March
*
March 4 -
Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (d.
1997)
*
March 9 -
Johnnie Johnson (pilot) John Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson, English
World War II WW2 pilot (d.
2001)
*
March 10 -
Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (d.
1978)
*
March 11 -
Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer (d.
2004)
*
March 14 -
Alexander Brott, Canadian conductor and composer (d.
2005)
*
March 20 -
Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian born Soviet pianist (d.
1997)
*
March 23 -
Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet sniper, World War II hero (d.
1991).
*
March 30 -
Arsenio Erico, Paraguayan footballer in Argentina (d.
1977)
*
March 31 -
Albert Hourani, English Middle Eastern historian (d.
1993)
April
*
April 4 -
Muddy Waters, American blues musician (d.
1983)
*
April 7 -
Billie Holiday, American jazz and blues singer (d.
1959)
*
April 21 -
Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (d.
2001)
May
*
May 1 -
Krystyna Skarbek, Polish-born heroine of World War II (d.
1952)
*
May 1 -
Archie Williams, American athlete (d.
1993)
*
May 2 -
Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (d.
2003)
*
May 5 -
Alice Faye, American entertainer (d.
1998)
*
May 6 -
Orson Welles, American film director (d.
1985)
*
May 10 -
Denis Thatcher, husband of
Margaret Thatcher (d.
2003)
*
May 15 -
Paul Samuelson, American economist,
Nobel Prize in Economics Nobel Prize laureate
*
May 20 -
Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader and politician (d.
1981)
*
May 26 -
Sam Edwards, American actor (d.
2004)
*
May 29 -
Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d.
1990)
June
*
June 1 -
John Randolph (actor) John Randolph, American actor (d.
2004)
*
June 10 -
Saul Bellow, Canadian-born writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2005)
*
June 15 -
Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*
June 17 -
Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (d.
1996)
*
June 20 -
Paul Castellano, American Gangster (d.
1985)
*
June 24 - Sir
Fred Hoyle, British astronomer (d.
2001)
July-August
*
July 28 -
Charles Townes, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate
*
August 22 -
Hugh Paddick, British actor (d.
2000)
*
August 27 -
Norman F. Ramsey, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate
September-October
*
September 23 -
Clifford Shull, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2001)
*
September 30 -
Lester Maddox, Governor of Georgia (d.
2003)
*
October 13 -
Terry Frost, English artist (d.
2003)
*
October 9 -
Clifford M. Hardin, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
*
October 17 -
Arthur Miller, American playwright (d.
2005)
*
October 24 -
Bob Kane, American comic book creator, Creator of
Batman (d.
1998)
*
October 24 -
Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (d.
1984)
*
October 29 -
William Berenberg, American physician (d.
2005)
November
*
November 9 -
André François, French cartoonist (d.
2005)
*
November 9 -
Sargent Shriver, American politician
*
November 11 -
William Proxmire, U.S. Senator (d.
2005)
*
November 12 -
Roland Barthes, French philosopher and literary critic (d.
1980)
*
November 14 -
Martha Tilton, British actress
*
November 19 -
Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1974)
*
November 25 -
Augusto Pinochet,
President of Chile
*
November 28 -
Evald Okas, Estonian painter
*
November 30 -
Brownie McGhee, American musician (d.
1996)
*
November 30 -
Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2005)
December
*
December 7 -
Eli Wallach, American actor
*
December 8 -
Ernest Lehman American screenwriter (d.
2005)
*
December 9 -
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German soprano
*
December 12 -
Frank Sinatra, American entertainer (d.
1998)
*
December 19 -
Edith Piaf, French singer (d.
1963)
*
December 27 -
Gyula Zsengellér, Hungarian footballer
Deaths
*
January 15 -
Mary Slessor, Scottish Christian missionary (b.
1848)
*
February 5 -
Ross Barnes, baseball player (b.
1850)
*
March 4 -
William Willett, Inventor of
Daylight Saving Time (b.
1856)
*
March 31 -
Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (b.
1882)
*
April 16 -
Nelson W. Aldrich, Senator from Rhode Island (b.
1841)
*
April 23 -
Rupert Brooke, English poet (b.
1887)
*
July 2 -
Porfirio DÃaz ,
President of Mexico (b.
1830)
*
July 16 -
Ellen G. White, American prophetess, co-founder of Seventh-Day Adventism (b.
1827)
*
August 20 -
Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1854)
*
August 26 -
John Bunny American silent film comedian (b.
1863)
*
September 9 -
Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b.
1850)
*
September 13 -
Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b.
1835)
*
October 12 -
Charles Sorley, British poet (b.
1895)
*
October 30 -
Charles Tupper,
Prime Minister of Canada (b.
1821)
*
November 15 -
Booker T. Washington, African-American educator (b.
1856)
*
November 28 -
Mubarak Al-Sabah "The Great", Emir of
Kuwait (b.
1896)
Marriages
*
January 20 -
Richard E. Byrd &
Marie Donaldson
*
April 27 -
Bert Wheeler &
Margaret Grae
*
June 26 -
T.S. Eliot &
Vivienne Haigh-Wood
*
August 11 -
Buck Jones &
Odelle Osborne
*
August 29 -
Julian Reed &
Mrs. Mary Darcey Goodwin
*
September 21 -
Averell Harriman &
Kitty Lawrence
*
September 22 -
Siegfried Wagner &
Winifred Wagner
*
October 21 -
Graciliano Ramos &
Maria Augusta de Barros
*
December 5 -
Kurt Schwitters &
Helma Fischer
*
December 12 -
Mae Busch &
Francis McDonald
*
December 17 -
Benito Mussolini &
Donna Rachele Guidi
*
December 18 -
Paul Hoffman &
Dorothy Brown
*
December 18 -
Woodrow Wilson &
Edith Bolling Galt
Nobel prizes
*
Nobel Prize/Chemistry Chemistry -
Richard Willstätter
*
Nobel Prize in Literature Literature -
Romain Rolland
*
Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine Medicine - not awarded
*
Nobel Prize/Peace Peace - not awarded
*
Nobel Prize/Physics Physics -
William Henry Bragg and
William Lawrence Bragg
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