1915

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Events of 1915

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January

January - While working as a cook at New York's Sloan Hospital under an assumed name, "Typhoid Mary" infects 25 people, and is placed in quarantine for life.
January 1 - Sinking of the battleship [[HMS Formidable (189Image:Cool.gif|HMS Formidable]], off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by a German U-Boat.
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 - n earthquake (6.8 in Richter scale) in Avezzano, Italy: more than 12,000 dead.
January 19 - Georges 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.

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January 21: Kiwanis founded.

January 21 - Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
January 28 - An act of the U.S. Congress designates the United States Coast Guard, begun in 1790, as a military branch.
January 31 - World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russians.

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January 28: United States Coast Guard military branch.

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February

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.
February 20 - In San Francisco, CA the Panama-Pacific International Exposition is opened.

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March

March 3 - NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
March 14 - World War I: Off the coast of Chile, the Royal Navy forces the German light cruiser SMS Dresden to scuttle.
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 dead.
March 28 - The first Roman Catholic Liturgy is celebrated by Archbishop John Ireland at the newly consecrated Cathedral of Saint Paul in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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March 14: (World War I) Royal Navy forced the German light cruiser SMS Dresden to scuttle.

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April

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 - German troops introduce poison gas at Ypres, Belgium.
April 24 - The Ottoman Empire arrests hundreds of Armenian intellectuals. Armenians mark this as the start of the Armenian Genocide.
April 25 - The ANZAC tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.
April 25 - The Great Fire of Reykjavík, Iceland's capital.
April 30 - Australian submarine AE2 sunk in Sea of Marmara.

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May

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May 7: (World War I) German U-boat sinks RMS Lusitania.

May 3 - John McCrae writes In Flanders Fields.
May 5 - World War I: The Turks begin shelling Anzac Cove from a new position behind their lines.
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.
May 29 - Teófilo Braga becomes president of Portugal.

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June

June 3 - Troops of Obregon and Villa clash at 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 sinking.
June 16 - Foundation of the British Women's Institute

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July

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, with the loss of 845 lives.
July 28 - United States occupation of Haiti begins

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August

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January: Magazine

August 5-August 23 - Hurricane Two of the 1915 Atlantic hurricane season 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 its allied Central Powers, the territories of Baranja, Srem and Slavonia from the Cisleithanian part of the Dual Monarchy; Bosnia and Herzegovina; and eastern ? 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.
August 31 - Jimmy Lavender of the Chicago Cubs pitches a no hitter against the New York Giants.

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September

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.
September 11 - The Pennsylvania Railroad begins electrified commuter rail service between Paoli and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, using overhead AC trolley wires for power. This type of system would later be used in long-distance passenger trains between New York City, Washington, D.C., and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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October

October 12 - World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium.
October 15 - World War I: Austria-Hungary invades Kingdom of Serbia. Bulgaria enters the war, invading Kingdom of Serbia. Retreat of the Serbian First Army towards Greece begins (Serbian campaign (WWI)
October 19 - US recognizes Mexican government of Venustiano Carranza de facto (not de jure until 1917)
October 27 - William Morris Hughes becomes 7th Prime Minister of Australia.

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November

November - Sykes-Picot Agreement, a secret understanding between the governments of Britain and France to overtake Middle-Eastern regions of the Ottoman Empire (mostly Syria and Iraq) and establish their own zone of influence.
November 14 - Vision allegedly encountered by various military personnel in Europe at 22:30 hours, as recounted on the television series One Step Beyond.
November 23 - Triangle Film Corporation opens its new motion picture theater in Massillon, Ohio.
November 25 - The theory of general relativity is formulated.

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December

December 12 - Chinese president Yuan Shikai declares himself Emperor
December 26 - Irish Republican Brotherhood Military Council decides to stage a rising on Easter Sunday 1916.

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