1915 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1915?
- January 13, 1915 – An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
- January 19, 1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
- January 21, 1915 – Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
- January 25, 1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
- January 31, 1915 – World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russia
- February 14, 1915 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- February 19, 1915 – World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
- March 14, 1915 – World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
- 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.
- March 27, 1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
- April 24, 1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
- 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.
- July 7, 1915 – An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
- 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.
- December 12, 1915 – President of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai, announces his intention to reinstate the monarchy and proclaim himself Emperor of China.
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