1915 Calendar
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1915 Historical Event(s)
January 19, 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.
January 25, 1915
– Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
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.
March 27, 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.
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 25, 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.
June 5, 1915
– Denmark amends its constitution to allow women’s suffrage.
October 23, 1915
– Woman’s suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.
December 20, 1915
– World War I: Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli.
Who Were Born On 1915?
January 30, 1915
– John Profumo, British cabinet minister (d. 2006)
January 31, 1915
– Thomas Merton, American author and monk (d. 1968)
February 5, 1915
– Robert Hofstadter, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1990)
March 31, 1915
– Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese military man (d. 1997)
August 29, 1915
– Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist (d. 1985)
September 12, 1915
– Frank McGee, American journalist (d. 1974)
October 24, 1915
– Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998)
November 2, 1915
– Sidney Luft, American movie director (d. 2005)
November 28, 1915
– Evald Okas, Estonian painter (d. 2011)