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1915 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1915th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 915th year of the 2nd millennium, the 15th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1915, the ...
Woodrow Wilson House (Washington, D.C.), built in 1915. Emory College is rechartered as Emory University, and plans to move its main campus from Oxford, Georgia to Atlanta. The first stop sign appears in Detroit, Michigan. Colonel Francis G. Ward Pumping Station in Buffalo, New York, the largest in the US at this time, begins operation.
However, both France and Germany consolidated forces as France intended to retake the peak, leading to more battles for the summit later in 1915. [94] Siege of Mora – The Allies in German Cameroon attempted to force the German defenders on Mora mountain into surrendering by cutting off food and water sources at the start of the dry season. [108]
1915 – The Birth of a Nation opens; 1915 – RMS Lusitania sunk; 1915 – First transcontinental telephone is hooked up; 1916 – the U.S. acquires Virgin Islands; 1916 – Jeannette Rankin first woman elected to U.S. congress; 1916 – Louis Brandeis appointed to Supreme Court; 1916 – Adamson Act; 1916 – Federal Farm Loan Act; 1916 ...
The Attack of the Dead Men, or the Battle of Osowiec Fortress, was a battle of World War I that took place at Osowiec Fortress (now northeastern Poland), on August 6, 1915. The incident got its name from the bloodied, corpse-like appearance of the Russian combatants after they were bombarded with a mixture of poison gases , chlorine and bromine ...
1915 Vanceboro international bridge bombing — German saboteur Werner Horn detonated a suitcase filled with dynamite on the Canadian side of the Saint Croix–Vanceboro Railway Bridge that crossed the U.S.-Canada border between New Brunswick and Maine, but only caused minor damage. Because he detonated the bomb in the early morning when ...
British battleship HMS Canopus joined in assault missions on the Dardanelles. [10]1915 Vanceboro international bridge bombing — German saboteur Werner Horn was indicted by a federal grand jury at the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts for transporting explosives on a public train that were later used in an attempt to blow up the Saint Croix–Vanceboro Railway ...
A German artillery piece used for bombardment during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive on the Eastern Front.. Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive – Combined German and Austro-Hungarian forces under command of General August von Mackensen bombarded and attacked trenches held by the Russian Third Army along the Dunajec river in Galicia (now Poland), expending 70,000 shells over four hours before troops ...