1915 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1915?
- January 13, 1915 – An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
- January 18, 1915 – Japan issues the “Twenty-One Demands” to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
- January 19, 1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
- January 25, 1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
- January 28, 1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
- February 14, 1915 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- April 22, 1915 – The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
- May 1, 1915 – The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany.
- May 22, 1915 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the continental US during the 20th century.
- June 16, 1915 – Foundation of the British Women’s Institute.
- July 7, 1915 – An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
- July 24, 1915 – The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
- July 25, 1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.
- August 29, 1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
- October 5, 1915 – Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
- October 13, 1915 – The Battle for the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos in northern France, World War I.
- October 23, 1915 – Woman’s suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.
- November 1, 1915 – Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
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