1915 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1915?
- January 12, 1915 – The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.
- January 21, 1915 – Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
- February 14, 1915 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- March 3, 1915 – NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
- March 18, 1915 – World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
- 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 3, 1915 – The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
- May 9, 1915 – World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
- May 17, 1915 – The last British Liberal Party government (led by Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
- May 22, 1915 – Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail crash near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.
- June 21, 1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
- 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.
- August 6, 1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair – the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
- October 12, 1915 – World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
- October 13, 1915 – The Battle for the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos in northern France, World War I.
- November 1, 1915 – Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
- December 18, 1915 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt Wilson while president of the United States.
- December 20, 1915 – World War I: Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli.
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