1915

Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

Years: 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 - 1915 - 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920

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
• 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 founded
• March 14 - World War I: Off the coast of Chile, the Royal Navy sinks the German battleship 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 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.
• 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 23 - World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
• June 16 - foundation of the British Women's Institute
• 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.

Ongoing events

• World War I (1914-1918)
• Armenian Genocide (1915-1918)
• Hellenic Holocaust (1914-1922)

Births

• Chick Hearn, pro-basketball announcer

• 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)
• August 22 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
• December 12 - Frank Sinatra, American entertainer
• December 19 - Edith Piaf, French singer

Deaths

• April 23 - Rupert Brooke, poet
• 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.

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