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 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 21, 1915 – Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
- January 22, 1915 – Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
- January 31, 1915 – World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russia
- February 8, 1915 – D.W. Griffith’s controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
- 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.
- 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 9, 1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson‘s Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States’handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
- 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.
- August 17, 1915 – A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 mph.
- 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.
- December 20, 1915 – World War I: Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli.
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