1915

Years:
1912 1913 1914 – 1915 – 1916 1917 1918

Decades:
1880s 1890s 1900s – 1910s – 1920s 1930s 1940s

Centuries:
19th century – 20th century – 21st century

1915 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
Science and technology
Aviation - Rail transport - Science
Other topics
Canada – Ireland – South Africa – Sport

Lists of leaders:
State leaders - Religious leaders

1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).

1 Events
- 1.1 Ongoing events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel Prizes

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 dead
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 is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
January 27 – United States Marines occupy Haiti.
January 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 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, 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 28 – The first Roman Catholic Liturgy is celebrated by Archbishop John Ireland at the newly consecrated Cathedral of Saint Paul in Saint Paul.
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 them
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.
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 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 treason
July 24 – The steamer Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, with the loss of 845 lives.
August 5 – 23 – hurricane 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 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.
October 27 – William Morris Hughes becomes 7th Prime Minister of Australia.

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.
Female suffrage in Denmark and Iceland
Henri Désiré Landru begins his serial kills
Typhoid Mary isolated

Ongoing events

Births

January 5 – Arthur H. Robinson, American geographer and cartographer (d. 2004)
January 14 – Mark Goodson, American television game show producer (d. 1992)
January 20 – Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan
January 24 – Robert Motherwell, American painter (d. 1991)
January 30 – Joachim Peiper, German senior Waffen-SS officer (d. 1976)
January 31 – Alan Lomax, American folklorist and musicologist (d. 2002)
January 31 – Thomas Merton, American monk and author (d. 1968)
February 1 – Artur London, Czech statesman (d. 1986)
February 4 – Sir Norman Wisdom, English comedian, singer, and actor
March 10 – Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (d. 1978)
March 11 – Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer (d. 2004)
March 14 – Alexander Brott, Canadian conductor and composer (d. 2005)
March 20 – Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1997)
March 23 – Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet sniper, World War II hero (d. 1991).
March 30 – Arsenio Erico, Paraguayan footballer in Argentina (d. 1977)
March 31 – Albert Hourani, English Middle Eastern historian (d. 1993)
April 4 – Muddy Waters, American blues musician (d. 1983)
April 7 – Billie Holiday, American jazz and blues singer (d. 1959)
May 1 – Krystyna Skarbek, Polish-born heroine of World War II (d. 1952)
May 1 – Archie Williams, American athlete (d. 1993)
May 6 – Orson Welles, American film director (d. 1985)
May 20 – Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader and politician (d. 1981)
May 29 – Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
June 10 – Saul Bellow, Canadian author (d. 2005)
August 22 – Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
October 9 – Clifford M. Hardin, former U.S. secretary of agriculture
October 17 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005)
October 24 – Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (d. 1984)
November 11 – William Proxmire, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin
November 25 – Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile
December 7 – Eli Wallach, American actor
December 9 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German soprano
December 12 – Frank Sinatra, American entertainer (d. 1998)
December 19 – Edith Piaf, French singer (d. 1963)
December 27 – Gyula Zsengellér, Hungarian footballer

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)

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry – Richard Willstätter
Literature – Romain Rolland
Medicine – No prize awarded
Peace – No prize awarded
Physics – William Bragg

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