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

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Table of contents

1 Events

1.1 Ongoing events

2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Science
5 Heads of State

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.
The first stop sign appears in Detroit, Michigan

Ongoing events

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)
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)
Germany - Wilhelm II, German Kaiser (1888-1918)
Holy See - Pope Benedict XV, [[Pope|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)