1915

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

Years: 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 - 1915 - 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920

• January 12 - The Rocky Mountain National Park[?] is formed by an act of Congress
• January 12 - United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote
• January 19 - George Claude[?] patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
• January 19 - German zeppelins bomb the cities of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom for the first time, killing more than 20.
• January 21 - Kiwanis International[?] founded in Detroit, Michigan
• January 27 - United States Marines occupy Haiti
• January 28 - An act of the United States Congress creates the United States Coast Guard
• January 31 - World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russians
• February 8 - The controversial film The Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith premieres (Los Angeles, California).
• February 12 - In Washington, DC the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
• March 3 - NACA, the predecessor of NASA founded
• March 14 - World War I: Off the coast of Chile, the Royal Navy sinks the German battleship Dresden[?].
• March 18 - World War I: British attack on the Dardanelles fails.
• March 19 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet.
• April 22 - World War I: Second Battle Ypres[?] - German troops introduce poison gas at Ypres, Belgium.
• April 25 - The Anzac tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.
• May 7 - World War I: The RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat killing 1,198.
• May 9 - World War I: Second Battle of Artois[?] - German and French forces fight.
• May 17 - The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
• May 23 - World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.

• Alfred Wegener proposes the theory of Pangea

Art, Culture & Fashion

• 1915 in film
• 1915 in literature
• 1915 in music
• 1915 in sports[?]

Births:

• Chick Hearn, pro-basketball announcer
• January 7 - Erwin Wickert[?], narrator
• January 12 - Paul Jarrico[?], writer (+ 1997)
• January 14 - Mark Goodson[?], game show producer and television pioneer (+ 1992)
• January 20 - C. W. Ceram[?], author († 1972)
• January 22 - Heinrich Albertz[?], theologian and politician (+ 1993)
• January 29 - Victor Mature[?], actor (+ 1999)
• February 2 - Abba Eban, diplomat (+ 2002)
• February 11 - Haakon Stotijn[?], Dutch oboist.
• February 11 - Mervyn Levy[?], American artist/critic.
• February 11 - Patrick Leigh Fermor, American author.
• February 12 - Lorne Greene, actor (+ 1987)
• February 23 - Paul Tibbets, pilot of the "Enola Gay", dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
• February 28 - Zero Mostel[?], actor (+ 1977)
• March 8 - Tapio Rautavaara, athlete, actor, singer
• March 11 - Hans Peter Keller[?], writer (+ 1989)
• March 11 - Karl Krolow[?], lyricist and essayist (+ 1999)
• March 20 - Rudolf Kirchschläger[?], Austrian President (+ 2000)
• April 1 - Otto Wilhelm Fischer[?], actor
• April 4 - Muddy Waters, blues musician (+ 1983)
• April 7 - Billie Holiday, jazz and blues singer
• April 7 - Henry Kuttner[?], science fiction writer (+ 1958)
• May 6 - Orson Welles, American director (Citizen Kane)
• May 6 - Theodore H. White, writer (+ 1986)
• May 15 - Paul Samuelson, economist, recipient of the 1970 Nobel Prize in economics
• May 20 - Moshe Dayan, Israelian general
• May 27 - Herman Wouk[?] American writer
• May 28 - Joseph H. Greenberg, linguist (+ 2001)
• June 13 - Don Budge, tennis player (+ 2000)
• August 22 - Hugh Paddick, British actor
• December 12 - Frank Sinatra, American entertainer
• December 19 - Edith Piaf, French singer
• Thomas Merton, author (+ 1968)

Deaths:

• April 27 - Alexander Scriabin, composer
• September 9 - Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer

Science:

• Albert Einstein publishes his theory of general relativity.

Nobel Prizes:

• Physics - Sir William Henry Bragg[?], William Lawrence Bragg[?]
• Chemistry- Richard Martin Willstätter[?]
• Medicine - not awarded
• Literature - Romain Rolland
• Peace - not awarded