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(''' MCMXV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Friday (see link for calendar).
- January 12 - The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress .
- January 12 - United States House Of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote.
- January 13 – An earthquake (6.8 in Richter scale) in Avezzano , Italy - 32.610 dead
- January 19 - George Claude patents the Neon discharge tube for use in Advertising .
- January 19 - German Zeppelin s 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 is founded in Detroit, Michigan .
- January 27 - Chinese president Yuan Shikai declares himself Emperor
- January 28 - An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard .
- uses Poison Gas against Russia ns.
- 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 , is founded.
- , the Royal Navy sinks the German battleship SMS ''Dresden'' .
- March 14 - Britain , France and Russia agree to give Constantinople and the Bosporus to Russia in case of victory (the treaty is later nullified by the Bolshevik revolution)
- attack on the Dardanelles fails.
- March 19 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a Planet .
- March 25 - US Submarine F-4 sinks off Hawaii - 21 dead
- March 28 - The first Roman Catholic Liturgy is celebrated by Archbishop John Ireland at the newly consecrated Cathedral Of Saint Paul in Saint Paul , Minnesota .
- April 13 - Mexican Revolution - Pancho Villa 's attack against Alvaro Obregon 's troops in Celaya . Charge of Villa's troops is no match against Obregon's Barbed Wire and Machine Gun s
- - German troops introduce Poison Gas at Ypres , Belgium .
- April 24 - The Ottoman Empire arrests hundreds of Armenian intellectuals, executing most. Armenians mark this as the start of the Armenian Genocide and commemorate the anniversary.
- April 25 - The Anzac tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.
- April 30 - Australia n Submarine AE2 sunk in Sea Of Marmora .
- May 3 - John McCrae writes In Flanders Fields
- is sunk by a German U-boat killing 1,198.
- - German and French forces fight.
- May 17 - The last purely Liberal government in the United Kingdom ends when Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith forms an all party coalition.
- May 22 - Quintinshill railway disaster, Scotland , UK. 200 killed.
- joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary .
- June 3 - Troops of Obregon and Villa clash at León . Obregon loses his right arm in grenade attack but Villa is decisively defeated
- June 9 - U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the RMS ''Lusitania'' sinking.
- June 16 - Foundation of the British Women's Institute
- July 7 - An extremely overloaded Great Gorge And International Railway Trolley with 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario resulting in 15 casualties.
- July 24 - The steamer '' Eastland '' capsizes in central Chicago, Illinois , with the loss of 845 lives.
- July 28 - United States Occupation Of Haiti begins
- August 5 – 23 - Hurricane Two of the 1915 Atlantic Hurricane Season over Galveston and New Orleans – 275 dead
- begins - The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay .
- August 16 - The Entente promises the Kingdom Of Serbia , should victory be achieved over Austro-Hungary and it's allied Central Powers , the territories of Baranja, Srem and Slavonia from the Cisleithanian part of the Dual Monarchy; Bosnia and Herzegovina; and eastern 2/3 of Dalmatia (from the river of Krka to Bar).
- August 17 - Jew ish American Leo Frank is Lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia .
- September 6 - The first prototype Tank is tested for the British Army for the first time.
- September 7 - Former cartoonist John B. Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.
- nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium .
- October 19 - US recognizes Mexican government of Victoriano Carranza '' De Facto '' (not '' De Jure '' until 1917 )
- October 27 - William Morris Hughes becomes 7th Prime Minister Of Australia .
- November 25 - The theory of General Relativity is formulated.
- December 26 - Irish Republican Brotherhood Military Council decides to stage a rising on Easter Sunday 1916 .
- January 5 - Arthur H. Robinson , American geographer and cartographer (d. 2004 )
- January 14 - Mark Goodson , American television game show producer (d. 1992 )
- January 20 - Ghulam Ishaq Khan , President Of Pakistan
- January 23 - Arthur Lewis , British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991 )
- January 24 - Robert Motherwell , American painter (d. 1991 )
- January 30 - Joachim Peiper , German SS officer (d. 1976 )
- January 30 - John Profumo , British cabinet minister (d. 2006 )
- January 31 - Alan Lomax , American folklorist and musicologist (d. 2002 )
- January 31 - Thomas Merton , American monk and author (d. 1968 )
- February 1 - Artur London , Czech statesman (d. 1986 )
- February 1 - Sir Stanley Matthews , English footballer (d. 2000 )
- February 2 - Khushwant Singh , Indian writer
- February 4 - Sir Norman Wisdom , English comedian, singer, and actor
- February 5 - Robert Hofstadter , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990 )
- February 16 - Jim O'Hora , American college football coach, (d. 2005 )
- February 28 - Peter Medawar , Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1987 )
- March 4 - Carlos Surinach , Spanish composer (d. 1997 )
- March 9 - John Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson , English WW2 pilot (d. 2001 )
- March 10 - Harry Bertoia , Italian artist and designer (d. 1978 )
- March 11 - Vijay Hazare , Indian cricketer (d. 2004 )
- March 14 - Alexander Brott , Canadian conductor and composer (d. 2005 )
- March 20 - Sviatoslav Richter , Ukrainian born Soviet pianist (d. 1997 )
- March 23 - Vasily Zaitsev , Soviet sniper, World War II hero (d. 1991 ).
- March 30 - Arsenio Erico , Paraguayan footballer in Argentina (d. 1977 )
- March 31 - Albert Hourani , English Middle Eastern historian (d. 1993 )
- May 1 - Krystyna Skarbek , Polish-born heroine of World War II (d. 1952 )
- May 1 - Archie Williams , American athlete (d. 1993 )
- May 2 - Doris Fisher , American singer and songwriter (d. 2003 )
- May 5 - Alice Faye , American entertainer (d. 1998 )
- May 6 - Orson Welles , American film director (d. 1985 )
- May 10 - Denis Thatcher , husband of Margaret Thatcher (d. 2003 )
- May 15 - Paul Samuelson , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- May 20 - Moshe Dayan , Israeli military leader and politician (d. 1981 )
- May 26 - Sam Edwards , American actor (d. 2004 )
- May 29 - Karl Münchinger , German conductor (d. 1990 )
- November 9 - André François , French cartoonist (d. 2005 )
- November 9 - Sargent Shriver , American politician
- November 11 - William Proxmire , U.S. Senator (d. 2005 )
- November 12 - Roland Barthes , French philosopher and literary critic (d. 1980 )
- November 14 - Martha Tilton , British actress
- November 19 - Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. , American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974 )
- November 25 - Augusto Pinochet , President Of Chile
- November 28 - Evald Okas , Estonian painter
- November 30 - Brownie McGhee , American musician (d. 1996 )
- November 30 - Henry Taube , Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005 )
- January 15 - Mary Slessor , Scottish Christian missionary (b. 1848 )
- February 5 - Ross Barnes , baseball player (b. 1850 )
- March 4 - William Willett , English inventor of Daylight Saving Time (b. 1856 )
- March 31 - Wyndham Halswelle , Scottish runner (b. 1882 )
- April 16 - Nelson W. Aldrich , U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (b. 1841 )
- April 23 - Rupert Brooke , English poet (b. 1887 )
- July 2 - Porfirio Díaz , President Of Mexico (b. 1830 )
- July 16 - Ellen G. White , American prophetess, co-founder of Seventh-Day Adventism (b. 1827 )
- August 20 - Paul Ehrlich , German scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1854 )
- August 26 - John Bunny American silent film comedian (b. 1863 )
- September 9 - Albert Spalding , baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850 )
- September 13 - Andrew L. Harris , American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835 )
- October 12 - Charles Sorley , British poet (b. 1895 )
- October 30 - Charles Tupper , Prime Minister Of Canada (b. 1821 )
- November 15 - Booker T. Washington , American educator (b. 1856 )
- November 28 - Mubarak Al-Sabah , Emir Of Kuwait (b. 1896 )
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