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  • 1915_in_aviation
  • 1915_in_film
  • 1915_in_literature
  • 1915_in_music
  • 1915_in_science
  • 1915_in_sports

    Events

  • January_12 - The Rocky_Mountain_National_Park is formed 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 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
  • 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 founded
  • , the Royal_Navy sinks the German_battleship_Dresden.
  • attack on the Dardanelles fails.
  • March_19 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet.
  • 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.
  • is sunk by a German U-boat killing 1,198.
  • 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.
  • joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
  • June_16 - foundation of the British_Women's_Institute
  • 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.
  • 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

  • World_War_I (1914-1918)
  • Armenian_Genocide (1915-1918)
  • Hellenic_Holocaust (1914-1922)

    Births

  • January_14 - Mark_Goodson, game_show producer and television pioneer (d. 1992)
  • January_20 - Ghulam_Ishaq_Khan, President_of_Pakistan
  • April_4 - Muddy_Waters, blues musician (d. 1983)
  • April_7 - Billie_Holiday, jazz and blues singer
  • 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)
  • November - Chick_Hearn, pro-basketball announcer
  • December_7 - Eli_Wallach, Actor
  • December_12 - Frank_Sinatra, American entertainer
  • December_19 - Edith_Piaf, French singer

    Deaths

  • February_5 - Ross_Barnes, baseball player
  • 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

    Science

  • Albert_Einstein publishes his theory of general_relativity.

    Heads of State

  • China - Yuan_Shikai, President_of_the_Republic_of_China (1913-1916)
  • Denmark - Christian X, King_of_Denmark (1912-1947)
  • France - Raymond_Poincaré, President_of_France (1913-1920)
  • Germany - Wilhelm II, German Kaiser (1888-1918)
  • Holy_See - Pope_Benedict_XV, Bishop of Rome (1914-1922)
  • Japan - Yoshihito, Taisho Emperor (1912-1926)
  • Norway - Haakon VII, King_of_Norway (1905-1957)
  • Ottoman_Empire - Mehmed_V, Sultan_of_the_Ottoman_Empire (1909-1918)
  • Russia - Nicholas II, Tsar_of_Russia (1894-1917)
  • Spain - Alfonso_XIII_of_Spain, King_of_Spain (1886-1931)
  • United_States - Woodrow_Wilson, President_of_the_United_States (1913-1921)
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