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History on the year of 1915

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01 Jan 1970 WW1 Begin of Battles of the Isonzo
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01 Jan 1915 WW2 Giulio Cesare was commissioned into service. 
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01 Jan 1915 WW2 Conte di Cavour was commissioned into service. 
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08 Jan 1915 WW2 Georg von Küchler was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class. 
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17 Jan 1915 WW2 Henry Arnold's daughter Lois Elizabeth Arnold was born at Fort William McKinley in Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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19 Jan 1915 WW2 Two German Navy Zeppelins made the first airship attack on the United Kingdom. 
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24 Jan 1915 WW1 Begin of Battle of Dogger Bank
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25 Jan 1915 WW2 General Seigo Inokuchi was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea, relieving Sadayoshi Ando. 
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29 Jan 1915 WW2 Erwin Rommel led the German 9.Kompanie in an attack that broke through French lines, but he soon found his unit surrounded. He broke out and returned to German lines. He would later be awarded the Iron Cross Second Class for this action. 
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31 Jan 1915 WW1 Begin of Battle of Bolimov
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01 Feb 1915 WW2 Queen Elizabeth was commissioned into service. 
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03 Feb 1915 WW1 Begin of Defence of the Suez Canal
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07 Feb 1915 WW1 Begin of Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes
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13 Feb 1915 WW2 Aung San was born. 
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15 Feb 1915 WW2 Russian Sikorsky reconnaissance bombers attacked targets in the Vistula-Dobrzhani area of Poland. 
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17 Feb 1915 WW2 Richard O'Connor was Mentioned in Despatches. 
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18 Feb 1915 WW2 Richard O'Connor was awarded the Military Cross. 
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19 Feb 1915 WW2 British Vice-Admiral Sackville Carden commenced the naval attack on the Dardanelles, which all hoped would be sufficient to quell the Turks without recourse to an extensive landing by the army. Twelve capital ships in three divisions shelled the forts at the mouth of the channel, Sedd-al-Bahr on the European side and Kum Kale on the Asiatic side. Bad weather rendered the attack ineffective, and it was not resumed until 25 Feb 1915, when the fortifications were battered into submission and occupied. 
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19 Feb 1915 WW1 Begin of Initial Dardanelles Bombardment
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21 Feb 1915 WW2 The French army decided to introduce a steel helmet in place of the steel skull cap worn under the kepi. The first design by Georges Scott proved too costly to manufacture, and a simplified pattern, the Adrian helmet, was produced on the orders of a Supply Department official of that name. 
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23 Feb 1915 WW2 Paul Tibbets was born. 
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25 Feb 1915 WW2 Erwin Rommel received the Württembergische Goldene Verdienstmedaille award. 
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08 Mar 1915 WW2 Warspite was commissioned into service. 
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09 Mar 1915 WW2 James Johnson was born in Barrow-upon-Soar, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. 
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10 Mar 1915 WW2 The first British bombing raids in tactical support of ground operations were carried out against railway installations in the Menin and Courtrai area in Belgium. 
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10 Mar 1915 WW1 Begin of Battle of Neuve-Chapelle
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12 Mar 1915 WW2 The British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, signed a secret pact with the Russian Ambassador in London, England, United Kingdom giving Russia the right to post-war control of Constantinople and the Turkish Straits, in return for recognition of British and French aspirations in the remainder of the Ottoman Empire. 
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16 Mar 1915 RELIGIOUS Birth of Dr. Robert H. Bowman, missions pioneer. In 1945, along with John Broger and William J. Roberts, Bowman helped found the Far East Broadcasting Company. Today FEBC reaches thousands of Pacific island clusters with the Gospel through Christian radio.
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18 Mar 1915 WW1 Begin of Attempt to Force the Narrows
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22 Mar 1915 WW2 Erwin Rommel was awarded the Iron Cross Second Class medal for his actions of 29 Jan 1915. He became the first Leutnant in his regiment to win this award. 
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28 Mar 1915 RELIGIOUS Birth of Kurt Aland, New Testament textual scholar. He co-edited the two most definitive modern critical editions of the Greek Scriptures: the United Bible Society's "Greek New Testament" and Eberhard Nestle's "Novum Testamentum Graece."
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01 Apr 1915 WW2 Zivony Peshkov was made a corporal in the French Foreign Legion at Nice, France. 
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08 Apr 1915 WW2 Erwin Rommel received the Military Merit Order award. 
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11 Apr 1915 WW1 Begin of Battle of Shaiba
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19 Apr 1915 WW2 Kirishima was commissioned into service. 
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19 Apr 1915 WW2 Haruna was commissioned into service. 
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21 Apr 1915 WW2 The French Army decided to issue an order that all men serving at the front should wear the new light blue (bleu clair) uniform. 
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22 Apr 1915 WW2 The Germans made the first gas (initially chlorine) attack on French troops, on the front between Bixschoote and Langemaerck, in Belgium. 
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22 Apr 1915 WW1 Begin of Second Battle of Ypres
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25 Apr 1915 WW1 Begin of Landings at Helles & Anzac Cove
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26 Apr 1915 WW2 British Second Lieutenant W. B. Moorhouse RFC was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross after his B.E.2c was shot down during a raid over Courtrai, Belgium. 
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26 Apr 1915 WW2 Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary but not Germany. 
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28 Apr 1915 WW1 Begin of First Battle of Krithia
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01 May 1915 WW2 General Baron Teibi Ando was named the governor-general of Taiwan. 
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01 May 1915 WW1 Begin of Counter-attack at Eski Hissarlik
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06 May 1915 WW1 Begin of Second Battle of Krithia
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09 May 1915 WW2 Donald Bennett was born. 
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15 May 1915 WW2 Oliver Leese joined the Colstream Guards regiment of the British Army. 
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15 May 1915 WW1 Begin of Battle of Festubert
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19 May 1915 WW1 Begin of Turkish attack at Anzac Cove
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21 May 1915 WW2 The French army officially adopted the Adrian helmet. 
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22 May 1915 WW2 The Council of Ministers of the Ottoman Empire told its senior army commanders that they were authorised to crush without mercy any armed resistance they encounter from the local population in the war zone. 
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25 May 1915 WW2 The Ottoman Minister of the Interior, Mehmed Talât, announced that Armenians living near the war zones would be deported to Syria and Mosul. 
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31 May 1915 WW2 The first airship raid was made on London, England, United Kingdom by German Army Zeppelin LZ 38. Bombs fell on the East End of the capital, killing seven civilians and injuring at least fourteen more. 
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31 May 1915 WW1 Begin of Capture of Amara
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01 Jun 1915 WW2 Provence was commissioned into service. 
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04 Jun 1915 WW1 Begin of Third Battle of Krithia
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06 Jun 1915 WW2 The first airship to be destroyed in air combat was the Zeppelin LZ 37 which was attacked by British Flight Sub-Lietenant R. A. J. Warneford (No. 1 Squadron RNAS) in a Morane-Saulnier monoplane. Warneford, flying above the airship, dropped six 20-lb Hales bombs, the last of which exploded on the Zeppelin, causing it to crash near Ghent, Belgium. 
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12 Jun 1915 WW2 Omar Bradley was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant. 
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19 Jun 1915 WW2 Battleship Arizona was launched from Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, United States. 
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23 Jun 1915 WW1 Begin of First Battle of the Isonzo
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27 Jun 1915 WW1 Begin of Battle of Nasiriyeh
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28 Jun 1915 WW1 Begin of Battle of Gully Ravine
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11 Jul 1915 WW2 The German cruiser, SMS Königsberg, which had been blockaded in the Rufiji delta in East Africa by a squadron on twenty-five Allied vessels for half a year, was finally sunk by two shallow-draught monitors. Her crew and guns, dismounted from the ship, joined the forces of Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. 
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12 Jul 1915 WW1 Begin of Attack on Achi Baba
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18 Jul 1915 WW1 Begin of Second Battle of the Isonzo
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06 Aug 1915 WW1 Begin of Landings at Suvla Bay
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06 Aug 1915 WW1 Begin of Battle of Lone Pine
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06 Aug 1915 WW1 Begin of Battle of Sari Bair
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06 Aug 1915 WW1 Begin of Battle of the Nek
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12 Aug 1915 WW2 British Flight Commander C. H. K. Edmonds RNAS became the first pilot to attack a ship with an air-launched torpedo. 
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13 Aug 1915 WW2 Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg agreed to support an Austro-Hungarian plan to establish a new Habsburg dominated state, after the war, on captured Polish territory, but only on condition that Austria also agreed to become politically subordinated to Berlin. 
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14 Aug 1915 WW2 Remy Van Lierde was born in Overboelare, Belgium. 
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21 Aug 1915 WW2 Robert Furman was born. 
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21 Aug 1915 WW1 Begin of Battle of Hill 60
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21 Aug 1915 WW1 Begin of Battle of Scimitar Hill
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23 Aug 1915 WW2 British Captain A. J. Liddell RFC was awarded the Victoria Cross for valour while flying a RE- 5 aircraft. 
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01 Sep 1915 WW2 Bretagne was commissioned into service. 
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01 Sep 1915 WW2 Rear Admiral Moshiro Iwasaki was named the Chief of Staff of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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05 Sep 1915 WW2 Tsar Nicholas II, a notoriously inept military leader and tactician, assumed personal command of the Russian Armies. 
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16 Sep 1915 WW2 Ivan Bagramyan volunteered for the Russian Army. 
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18 Sep 1915 WW2 Erwin Rommel was promoted to the rank of Oberleutnant. 
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25 Sep 1915 WW1 Begin of Battle of Loos
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28 Sep 1915 WW1 Begin of Capture of Kut-al-Amara
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28 Sep 1915 WW1 Begin of Battle of Es Sinn
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10 Oct 1915 WW2 Robert Greim achieved his first kill as an observation plane pilot over France and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class medal. 
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18 Oct 1915 WW1 Begin of Third Battle of the Isonzo
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19 Oct 1915 WW2 Barham was commissioned into service. 
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02 Nov 1915 WW1 Begin of Battle of Ctesiphon
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06 Nov 1915 WW2 Piloted by Lieutenant Commander Henry Mustin, a Curtiss AB-2 aircraft made the first US catapult launch from USS North Carolina whilst the vessel was underway. 
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10 Nov 1915 WW1 Begin of Fourth Battle of the Isonzo
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18 Nov 1915 WW2 Fuso was commissioned into service. 
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02 Dec 1915 WW2 Josef Stroop was awarded the Iron Cross. 
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02 Dec 1915 WW2 Prince Takahito was born in the Imperial Palace at Tokyo, Japan. 
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03 Dec 1915 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was assigned to destroyer Sugi. 
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05 Dec 1915 WW2 Some members of the crew of Yingrui mutinied in support of Yuan Shikai's faction; the mutiny was suppressed and Yingrui remained under Nationalist control. 
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07 Dec 1915 WW1 Begin of Siege of Kut-al-Amara
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11 Dec 1915 WW2 Douglas MacArthur was promoted to the rank of major. 
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13 Dec 1915 WW2 Isoroku Yamamoto was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander. 
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13 Dec 1915 WW2 Tamon Yamaguchi was promoted to the rank of sub-lieutenant. 
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13 Dec 1915 WW2 Vice Admiral Takeshi Takarabe succeeded Vice Admiral Reijiro Kawashima as the commanding officer of the Ryojun Military Port (previously known as Port Arthur; now Lushunkou, Liaoning Province, China), Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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13 Dec 1915 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu was named the commanding officer of the 2nd Squadron. 
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13 Dec 1915 WW2 Captain Kesataro Kawahara was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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13 Dec 1915 WW2 Admiral Teijiro Kuroi was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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15 Dec 1915 WW2 Yoshimi Minami was born. 
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16 Dec 1915 WW2 Masafumi Arima was promoted to the rank of midshipman. 
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18 Dec 1915 WW1 Begin of Evacuation of Gallipoli
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19 Dec 1915 WW2 Sir Douglas Haig assumed command of the British forces in France. 
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22 Dec 1915 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was married. 
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23 Dec 1915 WW2 Lieutenant G. S. M. Insall of the British Royal Flying Corps was awarded the Victoria Cross for valour whilst flying his Vickers F.B.5 aircraft. 
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