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1915
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
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.
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