Today in History for Year 1915

Months in Year 1915: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 257

Jan 1st - DW Griffith shows "Clansman" at a sneak preview
Jan 1st - Jews of Laibach Austria expelled
Jan 4th - 1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho
Jan 4th - Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops
Jan 9th - Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, SF
Jan 11th - Col Jacob Ruppert & Col Tillinghast Huston purchase Yanks for $460,000
Jan 12th - House of Reps rejects proposal to give women right to vote
Jan 13th - Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 29,800
Jan 13th - W Churchill presents plan for assault on Dardanelles
Jan 15th - Japan claims economic control of China
Jan 15th - Sydney, Kern & Smith's musical "Love o' Mike," premieres in NYC
Jan 16th - Congress authorizes $1 & $50 Panama-Pacific Intl Expo gold coin
Jan 17th - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's Hospital in Amsterdam opens
Jan 17th - Russia occupies Bukovina & Western Ukraine
Jan 18th - Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die
Jan 18th - Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
Jan 19th - 1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die
Jan 19th - Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude
Jan 21st - Kiwanis International founded in Detroit
Jan 24th - German-British sea battle at Doggersbank & Helgoland
Inventor Alexander Graham Bell Jan 25th - Alexander Graham Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF
Jan 25th - Giordano, Sardou & Moreau's opera "Madame Sans Gêne" premieres in NYC
Jan 25th - Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (NY to SF)
Jan 26th - Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo established
Jan 27th - US Marines occupy Haiti
Jan 28th - 1st US ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)
Jan 28th - US Coast Guard created from Life Saving & Revenue Cutter services
Jan 28th - US Pres Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates
Jan 30th - German submarine attack on Le Havre
Jan 30th - No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Vic v Tas
Jan 31st - 1st (German) poison gas attack, against Russians
Feb 3rd - Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal
Feb 4th - Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Miss Penitentiary
Feb 7th - 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received
Feb 7th - 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army
Feb 8th - "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA
Feb 12th - Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Wash DC
Feb 16th - Frank Home Run Baker, 28, announces retirement following a contract dispute with Connie Mack. He sits out 1915 season
Feb 17th - Edward Stone, 1st US combatant to die in WW I, is mortally wounded
Feb 18th - Germany begins a blockade of Britain
Feb 19th - British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast
Feb 20th - Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF
Feb 21st - 20th Russian Army corps surrenders
Feb 21st - World's Fair in SF opens
Feb 22nd - Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war
Feb 23rd - Germany sinks US ships Carib & Evelyn & torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin
Feb 23rd - Nevada enforces convenient divorce law
Feb 26th - Malancourt, Argonnen (1st (German) flame-thrower
Mar 2nd - British vice adm Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts
Mar 2nd - Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine
Mar 3rd - Natl Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created
Mar 3rd - NACA, the predecessor of NASA founded.
Mar 5th - World War I: The LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.
Mar 6th - Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos
Mar 8th - 1st US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned
Mar 10th - British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle
Mar 13th - Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit
Mar 14th - German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile
Mar 15th - Neth merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed & sinks in North Sea
Mar 16th - Brit battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle
Mar 16th - Federal Trade Commission organizes
Mar 18th - Failed British attack in Dardanelles
Mar 18th - French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed
Mar 19th - Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time)
Mar 23rd - Zion Mule Corp forms
Mar 25th - 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21
Mar 25th - German U boat torpedoes Neth merchant ship Medea
Mar 26th - Stanley Cup: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Ottawa Senators
Apr 5th - French begin Woëvre-offensive
Apr 5th - Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title
Apr 14th - A's Herb Pennock is within 1 out of pitching 1st Opening Day no-hitter
Apr 14th - Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo
Apr 14th - The Turks invade Armenia.
Apr 15th - Manuel de Falla's ballet "El Amor Brujo," premieres in Madrid
Apr 15th - NY Giant Rube Marquard no-hits Bkln, 2-0
Apr 18th - French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
Apr 19th - 19th Boston Marathon won by Edouard Fabre of Canada in 2:31:41.2
Apr 22nd - 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I
Apr 22nd - 2nd Battle of Ypres begins
Apr 22nd - NY Yankees don pinstripes & hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time
Apr 23rd - ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA)
Apr 24th - German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper
Apr 24th - Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day)
Apr 24th - Pitts' Frank Allen no-hits St Louis (Federal League), 2-0
Apr 25th - 78,000 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli
Apr 26th - Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France & Russia
May 1st - British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool
May 1st - German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight
May 2nd - Old Fordham Road in Bronx renamed Landing Road
May 4th - Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungary & Germany
May 5th - German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom
May 6th - Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont
May 6th - German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland
Baseball Great Babe Ruth May 6th - Red Sox Babe Ruth pitching debut & 1st HR, loses to Yanks 4-3 in 15
May 7th - Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost
May 8th - 41st Kentucky Derby: Joe Notter aboard Regret wins in 2:05.4
May 9th - German & French fight Battle of Artois
May 10th - Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea
May 12th - Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250
May 12th - Franklin K Mathiews, presents idea of "Book Week"

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 501

Jan 1st - Francois Bondy, writer
Jan 1st - Lewis Bingham Keeble, town planner
Jan 2nd - John Hope Franklin, historian
Jan 5th - Mabel Leigh, potter
Jan 5th - Uta Graf, singer/teacher
Jan 5th - Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian-born cartographer (d. 2004)
Jan 6th - Alan Watts, Kent England, writer (Book on the Taboo)
Jan 6th - Don Edwards, (Rep-D-CA, 1963- )
Jan 6th - John C. Lilly, U.S. psychoanalyst, writer (d. 2001)
Jan 7th - Herman Musaph, Dutch psychiatrist/sexologist/founder (NVSH)
Jan 8th - Walker Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1991)
Jan 9th - Anita Louise, NYC, actress (My Friend Flicka)
Jan 9th - Fernando Lamas, Buenos Aires Argentina, actor ("You look marvelous")
Jan 10th - Dean Dixon, Zug Switzerland, conductor
Jan 11th - Robert Blair Mayne, British soldier, co-founder Special Air Service (d. 1955)
Jan 12th - Ernest Armstrong, miner/politician
Jan 12th - Frank Annunzio, (Rep-D-IL, 1965- )
Jan 12th - Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot
Jan 12th - Martin Agronsky, journalist (1952 Peabody, 1961 DuPont-Columbia)
Jan 12th - Paul Jarrico, American writer (d. 1997)
Jan 12th - Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, Catholic archbishop of Ottawa
Jan 13th - Edward Frederick Weston Goodman, property developer
Jan 14th - Andre Frossard, Catholic columnist
Jan 14th - Mark Goodson, American game show producer (d. 1992)
Jan 18th - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
Jan 19th - Alvy West, Bkln NY, orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show)
Jan 20th - C W Ceram, [Kurt W Marek], German/US writer (March of Archaeology)
Jan 20th - Joe Hitchcock, darts player (leader of St Dunstan's Four)
Jan 20th - Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
Jan 21st - Alan Hewitt, NYC, actor (Det Brennan-My Favorite Martian)
Jan 22nd - Tom Burtt, cricketer (slow left-armer took 33 wickets for NZ)
Jan 23rd - Herma Bauma, Austria, javelin thrower (Oly-gold-1948)
Jan 23rd - Potter Stewart, Mich, 94th Supreme Court justice (1958-81)
Jan 24th - Robert B Motherwell, US, painter (Elegies to the Spanish Republic)
Jan 24th - Vitezslava Kapralova, composer
Jan 25th - Michael Duane, educationalist
Jan 26th - William Hopper, NYC, actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason)
Jan 27th - Jack Brymer, clarinettist
Jan 29th - Frederic Ramsey Jr, folklorist/author
Jan 29th - Halfdan Rasmussen, Danish poet/WWII resistance fighter (Skoven)
Jan 29th - John Serry, Sr., American musician and arranger (d. 2003)
Jan 30th - Dorothy Dell, actor (Little Miss Marker, Wharf Angel)
Jan 30th - John D Profumo, England, politician (C)
Jan 30th - Pierre Wissmer, Swiss composer/theory (Capitaine Bruno)
Jan 30th - Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976, by assassination)
Jan 31st - Bobby Hackett, Providence RI, trumpeteer/orchestra leader (Air Time '57)
Jan 31st - Garry Moore, [Thomas Garrison Morfit], Balt, host (I've Got a Secret)
Jan 31st - John Profumo, president (Toynbee Hall)
Jan 31st - Thomas Merton, France, Trappist monk/poet/essayist (7 Storey Mt)
Jan 31st - William Crosbie, artist
Jan 31st - Alan Lomax, American musicologist (d. 2002)
Feb 1st - Stanley Matthews, 1st British soccer player to be knighted
Feb 2nd - Evert Werkman, Dutch journalist (Het Parool)
Feb 2nd - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (d. 2002)
Feb 2nd - Stan Leonard, Canadian professional golfer (d. 2005)
Feb 3rd - Jann Willem Holsbergen, author (Zakenmensen Fair as Gold)
Feb 3rd - Richard Bales, composer
Feb 4th - William Talman, Detroit Mich, actor (Crashout, Hamilton-Perry Mason)
Feb 4th - Ray Evans, American songwriter with Jay Livingston (d. 2007)
Physicist Robert Hofstadter (Feb 5th) Feb 5th - Robert Hofstadter, US atomic physicist
Feb 6th - Derk Roemers, Dutch politician (Soc-Dem)
Feb 7th - Eddie Bracken, American actor (d. 2002)
Feb 8th - Lambros Georges Guetary Worloou, singer
Feb 9th - Lennard Pearce, English actor (d. 1984)
Feb 11th - Haakon Stotijn, Dutch oboist (VARA Orch, Orkestgebouw Orch)
Feb 11th - Mervyn Levy, artist/critic
Feb 11th - Patrick Leigh Fermor, author
Feb 12th - Andrew J Goodpaster, US, general/supreme commander (NATO-Europe)
Feb 12th - Lorne Greene, Ottawa Canada, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica)
Feb 13th - Lyle Betther, Phila, actor (Harry-Grand Jury, Lone Ranger)
Feb 13th - Aung San, Burmese general and politician (d. 1947)
Feb 14th - A W H Stewart-Moore, CEO (Gallaher)
Feb 14th - Irving Gordon, songwriter
Feb 15th - Paul Ferris, British author
Feb 16th - Michael Relph, British film producer and director (d. 2004)
Feb 17th - Homer Keller, composer
Feb 18th - Marcel Landowsky, composer
Feb 18th - Phyllis Calvert, British actress (d. 2002)
Feb 19th - John Freeman, British politician (Labour)/ambassador/TV host
Feb 20th - Philip Friend, Horsham England, actor (Vulture, Fur Collar)
Feb 21st - Ann Sheridan, Denton Texas, actress (Dodge City, Another World)
Feb 21st - Godfrey Brown, England, 4 X 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
Feb 22nd - Dan Seymour, Chicago Ill, actor (We the People, Sing It Again)
Feb 22nd - Gus Lesnevich, light heavyweight boxing champ (1947 fight of year)
Feb 23rd - Heinrich Schirmbeck, German author (Das Spiegellabyrinth)
Feb 23rd - Jon Hall, Fresno California, actor (Ramor of the Jungle) (d. 1979)
Feb 23rd - Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General and Pilot of B-29 "Enola Gay" over Hiroshima (d. 2007)
Feb 24th - Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin, trade unionist
Feb 26th - Elisabeth Eybers, South Afr/Dutch poetess (That Woman & Other Verses)
Feb 26th - Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher
Feb 27th - Arthur Gilson, Belgian attorney/minister of Defense (1958-..)
Feb 28th - Peter Medawar, England, zoologist, immunologist (Nobel 1953)
Feb 28th - Zero "Samuel" Mostel, Brooklyn, actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
Mar 2nd - Lona Andre, actress (Case of Baby Sitter)
Mar 3rd - George Brian Snape, businessman/rugby league entrepreneur
Mar 4th - Carlos Surinach, Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo) [OS]
Mar 4th - Eunice Catunda, composer
Mar 4th - Petrus de Jong, Dutch premier (KVP, 1967-71)
Mar 5th - Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002)
Mar 6th - Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, 52nd Da'i al Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 3 of 3

Oct 17th - American born poet (The Waste Land) T. S (Thomas Sterns) Eliot (27) marries 1st wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood (27)
Dec 10th - 28th US President Woodrow Wilson marries 2nd wife Edith Galt, a descendant of native American Pocahontas
Dec 18th - Pres Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 99 of 99

Jan 2nd - Karl Goldmark, Austria-Hungarian composer (Queen of Saba), dies at 84
Jan 3rd - James E Flecker, British diplomat/novelist (Hassan), dies at 30
Jan 6th - Reginald Wood, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1886), dies
Jan 13th - Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
Jan 14th - Richard Meux Benson, founder of Anglican religious order (b. 1824)
Jan 15th - Guillaume Couture, composer, dies at 63
Jan 28th - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846)
Feb 5th - Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850)
Feb 7th - Wladyslaw Gorski, composer, dies at 68
Feb 10th - Albert J-BJ Thijs, Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo), dies at 65
Feb 12th - Charles Emile Waldteufel, composer, dies at 77
Feb 16th - Emil Waldteufel, [Charles Levy], French composer (Estudiantina), dies
Feb 19th - Gopal Krishna Gokhale, India's social reformer/politician, dies
Feb 23rd - Robert Smalls, Reconstruction congressman, dies at 75 in SC
Feb 25th - George Mimot, physician (Nobel-1934), dies
Mar 4th - William Willett, inventor of Daylight Saving Time (b. 1856)
Mar 11th - Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (b. 1826)
Mar 13th - Sergei J Witte, Dutch count/premier of Russia, dies at 65
Mar 17th - Walter Crane, English painter/cartoonist/illustrator, dies at 69
Mar 21st - Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor (b. 1856)
Mar 24th - Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
Mar 31st - Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish athlete (b. 1882)
Apr 1st - Johann Joseph Abert, composer, dies at 82
Apr 3rd - Andrew Stoddart, cricketer (England capt at turn of century), suicide
Apr 14th - James Hutton Brew, Pioneer of West African Journalism, dies
Apr 16th - Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (b. 1841)
Apr 17th - Johannes P Kelly, [Kellij], Dutch actor/operetta writer, dies at 60
Apr 23rd - Rupert Chawner Brooke, English poet (Lithuania), dies at 27
Apr 25th - Nicola d' Arienzo, composer, dies at 72
Apr 25th - Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1830)
Apr 27th - Alexander N Skriabin, Russ pianist/composer (Prometheus), dies at 43
Apr 27th - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (b. 1872)
May 7th - Alfred G Vanderbilt, US millionaire, dies aboard Lusitania
May 7th - Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr, US Lusitania officer, dies
May 7th - Charles Frohman, dies aboard Lusitania
May 8th - Henry McNeal Turner, 1 US black army chaplain, dies at 82
May 9th - François Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1887)
May 10th - Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist, dies in battle
May 19th - John Simpson Kirkpatrick stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I (b. 1892)
May 21st - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (b. 1875)
Jun 4th - William Charles Denis Browne, composer, dies at 26
Jun 5th - Brzeska, sculptor, dies
Jun 7th - Benjamin Lambord, composer, dies at 35
Jun 18th - Eufemio Zapata, brother to Mexican revolutionist Emiliano Zapata, killed by Sidronio Comancho
Jun 19th - Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev, Russian composer (Oresteia), dies at 58
Jun 20th - Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG), dies
Jun 28th - Victor Trumper, cricketer (48 Tests for Australia, 3163 runs), dies
Jul 2nd - Gen Porfirio [Jose de la Cruz] Diaz, president Mexico, dies
Jul 10th - Hendrik W Mesdag, painter (Panorama Mesdag), dies
Jul 15th - Ludwik Grossman, composer, dies at 80
Jul 16th - Ellen White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1827)
Jul 17th - Francesco Fanciulli, composer, dies on 62nd birthday
Jul 18th - George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer, dies at 53
Jul 22nd - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer and inventor (b. 1827)
Jul 26th - James Murray, philologist, dies
Jul 28th - Vilbrun G Sam, rebellion leader/president of Haiti, lynched
Aug 4th - Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa), dies at 68
Aug 9th - Henry Longbottom, English lieutenant, dies in battle
Aug 10th - Henry Moseley, English physicist (b. 1887)
Aug 15th - Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, Jew convicted of murder, lynched
Aug 17th - Leo Frank, lynched for raping 12 year old in Georgia
Aug 20th - Paul Ehrlich, Germ geneologist (Chemotherapy, Nobel 1908), dies in 61
Aug 26th - John Bunny American comedian (b. 1863)
Sep 2nd - August Stramm, writer, dies at 41
Sep 9th - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
Sep 10th - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
Sep 11th - William Sprague IV, American politician (b. 1830)
Sep 11th - William Cornelius Van Horne, American railway executive (b. 1843)
Sep 13th - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
Sep 21st - Anthony Comstock, anti-vice crusader, dies at 71 in NYC
Sep 27th - Conrad T van Deventer, Dutch jurist/MP (liberal), dies at 57
Sep 27th - Kaspar C E Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austrian sculptor, dies at 84
Sep 27th - Remy de Gourmont, French poet (b. 1858)
Sep 28th - Saitou Hajime, 3rd squad leader of the Shinsengumi died under name of Goro Fujita (b. 1844)
Sep 29th - Luther Orlando Emerson, composer, dies at 95
Sep 29th - Rudi Stephan, composer, dies at 28
Oct 2nd - Russell Alexander, composer, dies at 38
Oct 5th - Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer, dies at 28
Oct 5th - Otto Valdemar Malling, composer, dies at 67
Oct 7th - Samuel Prowse Warren, composer, dies at 74
Oct 9th - Constant A M Cap, Flemish poet/etcher, dies at 73
Oct 12th - Edith L Cavell, British nurse, executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II)
Oct 23rd - W G Grace, British cricketer, dies
Oct 24th - Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (b. 1828)
Oct 30th - Gervys Rignold Hazlitt, cricketer (9 Tests for Aust 1907-12), dies
Oct 30th - Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
Education Pioneer Booker Taliaferro Washington (Nov 14th) Nov 14th - Booker T Washington, educator/organizier, dies at 59 in Tuskegee Ala
Nov 14th - Theodor Leschetizky, composer, dies at 85
Nov 19th - Joe Hill, Labor leader/songwriter, executed for murder
Nov 19th - Solomon Schechter, theologist, dies at about 64
Nov 27th - Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 54
Nov 28th - Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic (C'era una Volta), dies at 76
Nov 28th - Mubarak Al-Sabah "The Great", Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
Dec 2nd - Jan Malat, composer, dies at 72
Dec 4th - Gustav Hollaender, composer, dies at 60
Dec 19th - Alvis Alzheimer, German neurologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51
Dec 23rd - Roland Leighton, dies at 20
Dec 28th - Gerrit Jan van Heek, Dutch textile manufacturer/politician, dies at 78
Dec 29th - Charles Beach Hawley, composer, dies at 57