Major Events
- Feb 28 WWI: After the French try to drive the Germans forces back into the Champagne region, they gain a few hundred yards - at the cost of 50,000 casualties
- Apr 22 First military use of poison gas occurs when Germany uses chlorine gas against the Allies at Ypres in World War I [1]
- Apr 25 First landings at Gaba Tepe and Cape Helles on the Gallipoli Peninsula by ANZAC forces during WWI
- May 7 RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost
- Sep 21 Cecil Chubb buys English prehistoric monument Stonehenge for £6,600
- Oct 8 Battle of Loos on WWI Western Front ends, German forces contain British attack (85,000 casualties)
- Oct 12 Ford Motor Company under Henry Ford manufactures its 1 millionth automobile at the River Rouge plant in Detroit
- Dec 15 WWI: ANZAC forces begin their withdrawal from the Gallipoli Peninsula after Ottoman forces successfully defend access to Constantinople
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1915 in Film & TV
- Feb 8 "The Birth of a Nation" the first 12-reel film in America, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish and Mae Marsh, premieres at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles
Aung San
Moshe Dayan
Ethel Rosenberg
Arthur Miller
Hu Yaobang
Augusto Pinochet
Harry Morgan
Anthony Quinn
Orson Welles
Ingrid Bergman
Frank Sinatra
Billie Holiday
Edith PiafMore People Born in 1915
Fun Fact About 1915
Brooklyn Robins manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substitutes a grapefruit
Frank James
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Ellen G. White
Edith Cavell
Booker T. Washington
Alois Alzheimer
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
François Faber
Anthony Wilding
Victor Trumper
W. G. GraceMore 1915 Deaths
Articles About 1915
War Victim Goes to Bottom of the Pile
One of the first to die in World War I fell not in the trenches of France but in a leafy lane in rural England. So should he be ranked alongside battle heroes?January 19
First Air Raid on Britain
British wartime recruitment poster from 1915 referencing the air raids that started that yearJanuary 19
Hero Millionaire Saves Lusitania Children
American millionaire Alfred Vanderbilt died a hero on this day trying to save women and children aboard the liner Lusitania, which was sunk by a German U-boat.May 7
Fighter Pilot Shows Mercy
Compassion was not expected of a fighter pilot in the Second World War but it was just that quality that saved the lives of a struggling American bomber crew.August 21
Stonehenge
Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, EnglandSeptember 21
Edith Cavell – England’s Heroine Nurse
Without fear or favour nurse Edith Cavell tended the wounded in war-torn Europe. She also helped soldiers escape and sadly paid the ultimate price on this day.October 12
Women's Suffrage March on Fifth Ave, New York
25,000 women march in New York City demanding right to voteOctober 23
'Good Sport' in The Trenches
Prime Minister's son, Raymond Asquith tells his wife of life and death on the battlefront in World War I on this day in 1915.December 21
Famous Weddings in 1915
- Jun 4 Canadian diplomat Vincent Massey (28) weds Alice Parkin
- Jun 26 American poet T. S. Eliot (26) weds British governess Vivienne Haigh-Wood (27) at Hampstead Register Office in London, England; formally separate in 1933
- Oct 25 Leader of China's 1911 revolution Sun Yat-sen (48) weds second wife Soong Ching-ling
Famous Divorces in 1915
- Sep 23 Film producer Samuel Goldwyn (33) divorces first wife Blanche Lasky after 5 years of marriage
More 1915 Weddings
H. H. Asquith
Nicholas II
Wilhelm II
Woodrow Wilson