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1915




Events:

   * 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.
   * August 6 - World War I: Battle of Sari Bair begins - The Allies mount a
     diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of
     reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
   * August 17 - Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder
     of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia.

   * Alfred Wegener proposes the theory of Pangea

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 KirchschlŠger, 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 WillstŠtter
   * Medicine - not awarded
   * Literature - Romain Rolland
   * Peace - not awarded

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