1915

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1912 1913 1914 - 1915 - 1916 1917 1918\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

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\n1915 in Canada\n----\nList of state leaders in 1915
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Table of contents

1 Events 1.1 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n*January 12 - The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of Congress.\n* January 12 - United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote.\n* January 13 – An earthquake (6.8 in Richter scale) in Avezzano, Italy - 32.610 dead\n*January 19 - George Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.\n* 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.\n*January 21 - Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.\n*January 27 - United States Marines occupy Haiti.\n*January 28 - An act of the United States Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.\n*January 31 - World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russians.\n*February 8 - The controversial film The Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith premieres (Los Angeles, California).\n* February 12 - In Washington, DC the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.\n*March 3 - NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.\n* March 14 - World War I: Off the coast of Chile, the Royal Navy sinks the German battleship SMS Dresden.\n* March 14 - Britain, 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)\n* March 18 - World War I: British attack on the Dardanelles fails.\n* March 19 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet.\n* April 22 - World War I: Second Battle of Ypres - German troops introduce poison gas at Ypres, Belgium.\n* April 24 - Turkish troops attack the Armenian region of Van, starting the Armenian Genocide. In Constantinople, Turkish officers round up 300 ethnically Armenian intellectuals and execute them\n* April 25 - The Anzac tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.\n* April 30 - Australian submarine AE2 sunk in Sea of Marmora.\n* May 7 - World War I: The RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat killing 1,198.\n* May 9 - World War I: Second Battle of Artois - German and French forces fight. \n* May 17 - The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.\n* May 22 - Quintinshill railway disaster, Scotland, UK. 200 killed.\n* May 23 - World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.\n* June 9 - U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking.\n* June 16 - Foundation of the British Women's Institute\n* June 24 - The steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago, and over 800 people die.\n* June 29 – Roger Casement is sentenced to be hanged for treason\n* August 5 – 23 - hurricane over Galveston and New Orleans – 275 dead\n* 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.\n* August 17 - Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia.\n* September 6 - The first prototype tank is tested for the British Army for the first time.\n* October 12 - World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium.

• Alfred Wegener proposes the theory of Pangea.\n* Emory College is rechartered as Emory University, and plans to move its main campus from Oxford, Georgia to Atlanta.\n* U.S recognizes government of President Venustiano Carranza of Mexico.\n* Lord Beaverbrook buys the London Daily Express.\n* Automobile speed record of 102.6 m.p.h set at Sheepshead Bay, N.Y. by Gil Anderson driving a Stutz.\n* The first stop sign appears in Detroit, Michigan.\n* Female suffrage in Denmark and Iceland\n* Henri Desiré Landru begins his serial kills\n* Typhoid Mary isolated

Ongoing events

\n* World War I (1914-1918)\n* Armenian Genocide (1915-1918)\n* Hellenic Holocaust (1914-1922)

Births

• January 14 - Mark Goodson, game show producer and television pioneer (d. 1992)\n* January 20 - Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan\n* January 24 – Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 1991)\n* February 1 – Artur London, Czech statesman (d. 1986)\n* April 4 - Muddy Waters, blues musician (d. 1983)\n* April 7 - Billie Holiday, jazz and blues singer\n* May 1 - Archie Williams, American athlete\n* May 6 - Orson Welles, American director (Citizen Kane)\n* May 20 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader, politician (d. 1981)\n* August 22 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)\n* December 7 - Eli Wallach, actor\n* December 12 - Frank Sinatra, American entertainer\n* December 19 - Edith Piaf, French singer

Deaths

\n* January 15 - Mary Slessor, Scottish Christian missionary to West Africa (b. 1848)\n* February 5 - Ross Barnes, baseball player\n* March 31 - Wyndham Halswelle, British runner\n* April 23 - Rupert Brooke, poet\n* July 16 - Ellen G. White, prophetess, co-founder of Seventh-Day Adventism\n* September 9 - Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer\n* October 12 - Charles Sorley, poet\n* November 15 - Booker T. Washington, African-American educator \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n