
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1912 1913 1914 - 1915 - 1916 1917 1918 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ==Events== *January 12 - The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the Congress of the United States. * 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 Marine Corps occupy Haiti. *January 28 - An act of the Congress of the United States 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 - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 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 - United Kingdom, 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: United Kingdom attack on the Dardanelles fails. * March 19 - Pluto (planet) 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 - Germany troops introduce poison gas at Ypres, Belgium. * April 24 - Ottoman Empire troops attack the Armenia 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 Turkey 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 Germany U-boat killing 1,198. * May 9 - World War I: Second Battle of Artois - Germany and France forces fight. * May 17 - The last purely Liberal Party (UK) 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 – August 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 lynching 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: United Kingdom nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a Germany firing squad for helping Allies soldiers escape from Belgium. * October 27 - Billy 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, Georgia. * United States recognizes government of President Venustiano Carranza of Mexico. * William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron 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=== * World War I (1914-1918) * Armenian Genocide (1915-1918) * Hellenic Holocaust (1914-1922) ==Births== ===January=== * 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) **Thomas Merton, American monk and author (d. 1968) ===February=== * February 1 - Artur London, Czech statesman (d. 1986) **Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer (d. 2000) * February 4 - Sir Norman Wisdom, English comedian, singer, and actor ===March=== * March 9 - Johnnie Johnson (pilot), English WW2 pilot (d. 2001) * 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 born Soviet pianist (d. 1997) * March 23 - Vasily Grigoryevich 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=== * April 4 - Muddy Waters, American blues musician (d. 1983) * April 7 - Billie Holiday, American jazz and blues singer (d. 1959) * April 21 - Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (d. 2001) ===May=== * May 1 - Krystyna Skarbek, Polish-born heroine of World War II (d. 1952) **Archie Williams, American athlete (d. 1993) * May 5 - Alice Faye, American entertainer (d. 1998) * 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=== * June 10 - Saul Bellow, Canadian author (d. 2005) * June 17 - Karl Targownik, Hungarian Psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (d. 1996) *June 24 - Sir Fred Hoyle, British astronomer (d. 2001) ===August=== * August 22 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000) ===October=== * 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=== * November 11 - William Proxmire, U.S. American politician * November 25 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean President of Chile * November 30 - Brownie McGhee, American musician (d. 1996) ===December=== * 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 Prize == * Nobel Prize/Chemistry - Richard Willstätter * Nobel Prize in Literature - Romain Rolland * Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine - No prize awarded * Nobel Prize/Peace - No prize awarded * Nobel Prize/Physics - William Bragg 1915 la:1915 os:1915 se:1915 sq:1915 scn:1915
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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1912 1913 1914 - 1915 - 1916 1917 1918 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ==Events== *January 12 - The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the Congress of the United States. * 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 Marine Corps occupy Haiti. *January 28 - An act of the Congress of the United States 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 - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 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 - United Kingdom, 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: United Kingdom attack on the Dardanelles fails. * March 19 - Pluto (planet) 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 - Germany troops introduce poison gas at Ypres, Belgium. * April 24 - Ottoman Empire troops attack the Armenia 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 Turkey 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 Germany U-boat killing 1,198. * May 9 - World War I: Second Battle of Artois - Germany and France forces fight. * May 17 - The last purely Liberal Party (UK) 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 – August 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 lynching 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: United Kingdom nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a Germany firing squad for helping Allies soldiers escape from Belgium. * October 27 - Billy 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, Georgia. * United States recognizes government of President Venustiano Carranza of Mexico. * William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron 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=== * World War I (1914-1918) * Armenian Genocide (1915-1918) * Hellenic Holocaust (1914-1922) ==Births== ===January=== * 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) **Thomas Merton, American monk and author (d. 1968) ===February=== * February 1 - Artur London, Czech statesman (d. 1986) **Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer (d. 2000) * February 4 - Sir Norman Wisdom, English comedian, singer, and actor ===March=== * March 9 - Johnnie Johnson (pilot), English WW2 pilot (d. 2001) * 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 born Soviet pianist (d. 1997) * March 23 - Vasily Grigoryevich 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=== * April 4 - Muddy Waters, American blues musician (d. 1983) * April 7 - Billie Holiday, American jazz and blues singer (d. 1959) * April 21 - Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (d. 2001) ===May=== * May 1 - Krystyna Skarbek, Polish-born heroine of World War II (d. 1952) **Archie Williams, American athlete (d. 1993) * May 5 - Alice Faye, American entertainer (d. 1998) * 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=== * June 10 - Saul Bellow, Canadian author (d. 2005) * June 17 - Karl Targownik, Hungarian Psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (d. 1996) *June 24 - Sir Fred Hoyle, British astronomer (d. 2001) ===August=== * August 22 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000) ===October=== * 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=== * November 11 - William Proxmire, U.S. American politician * November 25 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean President of Chile * November 30 - Brownie McGhee, American musician (d. 1996) ===December=== * 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 Prize == * Nobel Prize/Chemistry - Richard Willstätter * Nobel Prize in Literature - Romain Rolland * Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine - No prize awarded * Nobel Prize/Peace - No prize awarded * Nobel Prize/Physics - William Bragg 1915 la:1915 os:1915 se:1915 sq:1915 scn:1915
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