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1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
Events
January 12 - The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the 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 deadJanuary 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 27 - Chinese president Yuan Shikai declares himself EmperorJanuary 28 - An act of the 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 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 14 - 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: British attack on the Dardanelles fails.March 19 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet .March 25 - US submarine F-4 sinks off Hawaii - 21 deadMarch 28 - The first Roman Catholic Liturgy is celebrated by Archbishop John Ireland at the newly consecrated Cathedral of Saint Paul in Saint Paul .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 machineguns 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 . In Constantinople , Turkish officers round up 300 ethnically Armenian intellectuals and execute themApril 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 3 - John McCrae writes In Flanders Fields 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 purely 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 . Obregon loses his right arm in grenade attack but Villa is decisively defeatedJune 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 29 – Roger Casement is sentenced to be hanged for treasonJuly 24 - The steamer Eastland Chicago, Illinois , with the loss of 845 lives.August 5 – 23 - hurricane over Galveston and New Orleans – 275 deadAugust 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 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 : British nurse h Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium .October 19 - US recognizes Mexican government of Victoriano Carranza de facto de jure ' until 1917 )October 27 - 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 .
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Ongoing events
Births
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April
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 laureateMay 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 )
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Deaths
January 15 - Mary Slessor , Scottish Christian missionary (b. 1848 )February 5 - Ross Barnes , baseball player (b. 1850 )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 16 - Ellen G. White , American prophetess, co-founder of Seventh-Day Adventism (b. 1827 )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 )November 15 - Booker T. Washington , African-American educator (b. 1856 )
Marriages
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