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Events on the year of 1915 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1915 DW Griffith shows "Clansman" at a sneak preview
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01 Jan 1915 Jews of Laibach Austria expelled
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04 Jan 1915 1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho
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04 Jan 1915 Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops
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09 Jan 1915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, San Francisco
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11 Jan 1915 Colonel Jacob Ruppert & Colonel Tillinghast Huston purchase Yankees for $460,000
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12 Jan 1915 The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
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13 Jan 1915 An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
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13 Jan 1915 W Churchill presents plan for assault on Dardanelles
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15 Jan 1915 Sydney, Kern & Smith's musical "Love o' Mike" premieres in New York City NY
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15 Jan 1915 Japan claims economic control of China
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16 Jan 1915 Congress authorizes $1 and $50 Panama-Pacific International Expo gold coin
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16 Jan 1915 Congress authorizes $1 & $50 Panam
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17 Jan 1915 Russia occupies Bukovina & Western Ukraine
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17 Jan 1915 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's Hospital in Amsterdam opens
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18 Jan 1915 Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
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18 Jan 1915 Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die
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19 Jan 1915 World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
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19 Jan 1915 Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
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19 Jan 1915 Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude
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19 Jan 1915 1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die
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21 Jan 1915 Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
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22 Jan 1915 Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
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24 Jan 1915 World War One: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
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24 Jan 1915 German-British sea battle at Doggersbank & Helgoland
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25 Jan 1915 Alexander Graham Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco
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25 Jan 1915 Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
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25 Jan 1915 Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (New York to San Francisco)
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25 Jan 1915 Giordano, Sardou & Moreau's opera "Madame Sans G
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26 Jan 1915 The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
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26 Jan 1915 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado established
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27 Jan 1915 US Marines occupy Haiti
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28 Jan 1915 An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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28 Jan 1915 1st US ship lost in WWI, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)
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28 Jan 1915 US Coast Guard created from Life Saving & Revenue Cutter services
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28 Jan 1915 US President Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates
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30 Jan 1915 German submarine attack on Le Havre
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30 Jan 1915 No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Victoria vs Tasmania
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31 Jan 1915 World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
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31 Jan 1915 1st (German) poison gas attack, against Russians
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03 Feb 1915 Turkish and German army reach Suez Canal
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04 Feb 1915 Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Miss Penitentiary
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07 Feb 1915 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received
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07 Feb 1915 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army
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08 Feb 1915 D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
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12 Feb 1915 Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC
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16 Feb 1915 Frank Home Run Baker, 28, announces retirement following a contract dispute with Connie Mack; He sits out 1915 season
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17 Feb 1915 Edward Stone, 1st US combatant to die in WWI, is mortally wounded
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18 Feb 1915 Germany begins a blockade of England
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19 Feb 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.
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19 Feb 1915 British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast
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20 Feb 1915 Panam
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21 Feb 1915 20th Russian Army corps surrenders
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22 Feb 1915 Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war
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22 Feb 1915 World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
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23 Feb 1915 Germany sinks US ships Carib and Evelyn and torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin
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23 Feb 1915 Nevada enforces convenient divorce law
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26 Feb 1915 Malancourt, Argonnen - 1st (German) flame-thrower
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02 Mar 1915 British vice Admiral Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts
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02 Mar 1915 Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine
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03 Mar 1915 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created
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03 Mar 1915 NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
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06 Mar 1915 Greek King Constantine I fires Premier Venizelos
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08 Mar 1915 1st US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned
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10 Mar 1915 The Battle of Neuve Chapelle begins. This is the first large-scale operation by the British Army.
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10 Mar 1915 British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle
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13 Mar 1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit
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14 Mar 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.
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14 Mar 1915 German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile
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15 Mar 1915 Netherlands merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed & sinks in North Sea
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16 Mar 1915 British battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle
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16 Mar 1915 Federal Trade Commission organizes
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18 Mar 1915 World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
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18 Mar 1915 Failed British attack in Dardanelles
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18 Mar 1915 French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed
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18 Mar 1915 Turkey's Canakkale (Trojan) Sea Victory against allied powers(USA, Australia, England, Italy) during First World War
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19 Mar 1915 Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time)
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23 Mar 1915 Zion Mule Corp forms
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25 Mar 1915 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21
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25 Mar 1915 German U boat torpedoes Netherlands merchant ship Medea
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26 Mar 1915 Ice hockey: The Vancouver Millionaires sweep the Ottawa Senators three-games-to-none to win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
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26 Mar 1915 Stanley Cup: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Ottawa Senators in 3
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27 Mar 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.
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05 Apr 1915 Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title
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14 Apr 1915 A's Herb Pennock is within 1 out of pitching 1st Opening Day no-hitter
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14 Apr 1915 Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo
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15 Apr 1915 New York Giant Rube Marquard no-hits Brooklyn, 2-0
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15 Apr 1915 Manuel de Falla's ballet "El Amor Brujo", premieres in Madrid
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18 Apr 1915 French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
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19 Apr 1915 19th Boston Marathon won by Edouard Fabre of Canada in 2:31:41.2
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22 Apr 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.
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22 Apr 1915 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WWI
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22 Apr 1915 2nd Battle of Ypres begins
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22 Apr 1915 New York Yankees don pinstripes & hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time
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23 Apr 1915 ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA)
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24 Apr 1915 Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day)
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24 Apr 1915 The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
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24 Apr 1915 Pittsburgh's Frank Allen no-hits St Louis (Federal League), 2-0
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24 Apr 1915 German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper
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25 Apr 1915 World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
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25 Apr 1915 78,000 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli
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26 Apr 1915 Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France & Russia
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01 May 1915 British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool
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01 May 1915 German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight
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01 May 1915 The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
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02 May 1915 Old Fordham Road in Bronx renamed Landing Road
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03 May 1915 The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
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04 May 1915 Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb and Germany
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05 May 1915 German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom
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06 May 1915 Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont
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06 May 1915 German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland
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06 May 1915 Red Sox Babe Ruth pitching debut and 1st HR, loses to Yanks 4-3 in 15
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06 May 1915 Babe Ruth hits his first major league home run while pitching for the Boston Red Sox.
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07 May 1915 Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost
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07 May 1915 Japanese 21 Demands Ultimatum to China (Commemorated as National Day of Humiliation)
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07 May 1915 World War I: German submarine 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
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08 May 1915 41st Kentucky Derby: Joe Notter aboard Regret wins in 2:05.4
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09 May 1915 German and French fight Battle of Artois
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09 May 1915 World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
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10 May 1915 Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea
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12 May 1915 Franklin K Mathiews, presents idea of "Book Week"
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12 May 1915 Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250
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12 May 1915 Franklin K Mathiews, presents the idea of "Book Week"
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17 May 1915 Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st andwinds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever
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17 May 1915 The last British Liberal Party government (led by Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
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17 May 1915 40th Preakness: Douglas Hoffman aboard Rhine Maiden wins in 1:58
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17 May 1915 Last liberal British Government of Asquith falls
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17 May 1915 National Baptist Convention chartered
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20 May 1915 Bataafsche Petroleum Me begins oil extraction of Maracaibo
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22 May 1915 Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous US during the 20th century.
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22 May 1915 Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster 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.
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22 May 1915 Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland)
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23 May 1915 World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
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23 May 1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary & Germany during WWI
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24 May 1915 World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
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24 May 1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary
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24 May 1915 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations
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25 May 1915 2nd Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties
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25 May 1915 Chicago Claude Hendrix no-hits Pittsburgh (Federal League), 10-0
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26 May 1915 H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England
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28 May 1915 John B Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll
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31 May 1915 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London
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01 Jun 1915 1st Zeppelin air raid over England
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05 Jun 1915 47th Belmont: George Byrne aboard The Finn wins in 2:18.6
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05 Jun 1915 Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
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08 Jun 1915 William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State
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09 Jun 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.
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10 Jun 1915 British / French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon
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10 Jun 1915 Girl Scouts founded
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12 Jun 1915 29th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Hazel Wightman (46 62 60)
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15 Jun 1915 US government mints 1st $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo
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16 Jun 1915 Foundation of the British Women's Institute.
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17 Jun 1915 League to Enforce Peace forms in Philadelphia
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18 Jun 1915 21st US Golf Open: John Travers shoots a 297 at Baltusrol Golf Club - New Jersey
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18 Jun 1915 Jerome Travers becomes the 2nd amateur to win golf's US Open
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20 Jun 1915 German offensive in Argonnes
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21 Jun 1915 Anti-British revolt in South-Africa ends with arrest of General De Law
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21 Jun 1915 The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
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22 Jun 1915 BMT, then Brooklyn Rapid Transit, begins subway service
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23 Jun 1915 Zeb Turner, country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag)
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23 Jun 1915 Yanks get record 16 walks & 3 wild pitches beat A's Bruno Hass, 15-0
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24 Jun 1915 800 die as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago
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26 Jun 1915 Germany suppresses its "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace
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27 Jun 1915 Dutch SDAP demonstrates against conscription
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27 Jun 1915 100
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29 Jun 1915 The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
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01 Jul 1915 Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service
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01 Jul 1915 Australian Survey Corps becomes part of Military Forces
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01 Jul 1915 Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Fliegertruppe air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
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03 Jul 1915 US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934
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05 Jul 1915 The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. This is the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.
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07 Jul 1915 World War I: end of First Battle of the Isonzo.
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07 Jul 1915 An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
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07 Jul 1915 Militia officer Henry Pedris executed by firing squad at Colombo, Ceylon - an act widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice by the British colonial authorities.
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09 Jul 1915 Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa
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10 Jul 1915 British / South African troops march into German SW-Africa
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16 Jul 1915 Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
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16 Jul 1915 First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded.
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17 Jul 1915 Italian offensive at Isonzo
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18 Jul 1915 2nd Battle of Isonzo begins and ends with loss of 280,000 men
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18 Jul 1915 Boston Braves start move from last place to become world series champs
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19 Jul 1915 Dutch accidents at sea law enforced
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19 Jul 1915 Naval accident
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19 Jul 1915 Washington Nationals steal record 8 bases vs. Cleveland Indians in the 1st inning
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24 Jul 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.
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24 Jul 1915 Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die
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25 Jul 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.
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26 Jul 1915 International School for Wijsbegeerte forms
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28 Jul 1915 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (NYC) protesting lynchings
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28 Jul 1915 US forces invade Haiti, stays until 1924
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29 Jul 1915 Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam HR
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29 Jul 1915 US marines land in Haiti, stay until 1924
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04 Aug 1915 World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
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05 Aug 1915 German troops over run Warsaw
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05 Aug 1915 Warsaw, evacuated by the Russians, is occupied by Germans
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06 Aug 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.
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07 Aug 1915 St. Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Brooklyn rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, and Card runner scores
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09 Aug 1915 British attack at Chanak Bair at Gallipolis
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12 Aug 1915 "Of Human Bondage, " by William Somerset Maugham, published
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14 Aug 1915 British transport Royal Edward sank by German U-boat kills 1000
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15 Aug 1915 Journalist Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, convicted of murder in Georgia
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15 Aug 1915 A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
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16 Aug 1915 KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0
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17 Aug 1915 German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana
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17 Aug 1915 Hurricane strikes Galveston, TX (275 killed)
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17 Aug 1915 Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life
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18 Aug 1915 Braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1
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19 Aug 1915 Rationing laws go into effect in the Netherlands
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20 Aug 1915 Italy declares war on Turkey
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20 Aug 1915 White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from Cleveland in exchange for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, and $31,500
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23 Aug 1915 Czar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army
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25 Aug 1915 Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage
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26 Aug 1915 German troops over run Brest-Litovsk, Russia
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29 Aug 1915 US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
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31 Aug 1915 Chicago White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits New York Giants, 2-0
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05 Sep 1915 35th US Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats McLoughlin (16 60 75 108)
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05 Sep 1915 Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland
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05 Sep 1915 The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
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07 Sep 1915 35th US Mens Tennis: Wm Johnston beats M E McLoughlin (16 60 75 108)
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07 Sep 1915 John Gruelle patents his Raggedy Ann doll
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07 Sep 1915 St. Louis Dave Davenport no-hits Chicago (Federal League), 3-0
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15 Sep 1915 Boston Braves beat St. Louis Cardinals 20-1
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16 Sep 1915 Czar Nicolas II adjourns 4th Duma
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16 Sep 1915 US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years
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18 Sep 1915 Boston Braves trounce St Louis Cardinals 20-1
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21 Sep 1915 Emanuel Querido ("Kerido") begins publishing Querido
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21 Sep 1915 Stones at Stonehenge, England, sold at auction for
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22 Sep 1915 Red Sox ask Braves for use of their larger park for World Series
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22 Sep 1915 Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic College in US opens in New Orleans, Louisiana
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22 Sep 1915 Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas) holds its 1st class
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25 Sep 1915 World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
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28 Sep 1915 Battle of Kut-el-Amara: Brits defeat Turks in Mesopotamia
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29 Sep 1915 1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent
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29 Sep 1915 Herbert / Blossoms musical "Princess Pat, " premieres in New York City
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29 Sep 1915 Philadelphia Phillies clinch their 1st pennant
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29 Sep 1915 A hurricane claims 275 in the Mississippi Delta
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30 Sep 1915 Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit
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03 Oct 1915 7.8 earthquake shakes Pleasant Valley, Nevada
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04 Oct 1915 Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah is established
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05 Oct 1915 Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
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07 Oct 1915 Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record)
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08 Oct 1915 Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British and Germans killed
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08 Oct 1915 Phillies win their 1st and only World Series game before 1980, beating
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08 Oct 1915 Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally
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09 Oct 1915 Belgrade Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders
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09 Oct 1915 Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, New York
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09 Oct 1915 Louis Kaufmans "Unchastened Woman, " premieres in New York City
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09 Oct 1915 Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st President to attend a World Series game
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11 Oct 1915 Bulgarian anti Serbian offensive begins
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12 Oct 1915 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile
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12 Oct 1915 Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citzens who identify themselves, with dual nationalities
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12 Oct 1915 World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
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12 Oct 1915 English nurse Edith Cavell executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II)
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12 Oct 1915 Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citzens with dual nationalities
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13 Oct 1915 Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 1 in 12th World Series
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13 Oct 1915 The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos in northern France, World War I.
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14 Oct 1915 World War I: The Kingdom of Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
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16 Oct 1915 Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria
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18 Oct 1915 3rd Italians offensive at Isonzo
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19 Oct 1915 Russia / Italy declares war on Bulgaria
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21 Oct 1915 1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris
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23 Oct 1915 Women's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.
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23 Oct 1915 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
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23 Oct 1915 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote
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25 Oct 1915 Atty James L Curtis named minister of Liberia
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28 Oct 1915 Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin.
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29 Oct 1915 Aristide Briand becomes Premier of France
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29 Oct 1915 Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia
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01 Nov 1915 Parris Island is officially designated a United States Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
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02 Nov 1915 1st US election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio
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06 Nov 1915 1st military flight in the Netherlands East Indies (Tandjong Priok)
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06 Nov 1915 Sophokles Skouloudis forms Greek government
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07 Nov 1915 Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 kill)
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09 Nov 1915 Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedos, killing 272
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12 Nov 1915 Britain annexes Gilbert and Ellice archipelago
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12 Nov 1915 Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry
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12 Nov 1915 Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice Islands
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14 Nov 1915 Thomas Masaryk demands independence for Czechoslovakia
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20 Nov 1915 7th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Rowing, 13-7
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24 Nov 1915 Serbian leader flees to Albania
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04 Dec 1915 F F Fletcher is 1st Admiral to receive Congressional Medal of Honor
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04 Dec 1915 Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County, Georgia
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04 Dec 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens
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10 Dec 1915 President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt
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10 Dec 1915 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled
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12 Dec 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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12 Dec 1915 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J.1) test flown at Dessau Germany
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12 Dec 1915 Aristide Briand forms French war government
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12 Dec 1915 Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia
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14 Dec 1915 Jack Johnson is 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion
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16 Dec 1915 Albert Einstein publishes his "General Theory of Relativity"
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18 Dec 1915 President Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt
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20 Dec 1915 World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.
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20 Dec 1915 Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia
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21 Dec 1915 10.17" (25.83 cm) of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record)
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21 Dec 1915 25.83 cm (10.17") of rainfall, Glenora OR (state record)
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22 Dec 1915 Federal Baseball League is dissolved
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22 Dec 1915 Organized baseball & Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati OH
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23 Dec 1915 J Kern/S Greene's musical "Very Good Eddie" premieres in New York NY
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28 Dec 1915 San Francisco City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
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30 Dec 1915 Cromarty Harbour, Scottish-British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die
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