1915 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1915?
- January 21, 1915 – Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
- 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.
- February 22, 1915 – World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
- 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.
- March 19, 1915 – Pluto is photographed for the first time but is not recognized as a planet.
- April 18, 1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
- 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 7, 1915 – World War I: German submarine SMU U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
- May 9, 1915 – World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
- May 23, 1915 – World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
- May 24, 1915 – World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
- June 16, 1915 – Foundation of the British Women’s Institute.
- 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.
- September 5, 1915 – The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
- October 12, 1915 – World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
- November 1, 1915 – Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
- December 20, 1915 – World War I: Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli.
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