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The New Orleans Hurricane of 1915 was an intense Category 4 hurricane that made landfall near Grand Isle, Louisiana, and the most intense tropical cyclone during the 1915 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm formed in late September when it moved westward and peaked in intensity of 145 mph (233 km/h) to weaken slightly by time of landfall on ...
August 5–23 – Hurricane Two of the 1915 Atlantic hurricane season over Galveston and New Orleans leaves 275 dead. August 17 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta. [2] August 31 – Jimmy Lavender of the Chicago Cubs pitches a no hitter against the New York Giants.
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 ...
In the early hours of the New Year’s Day celebrations on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, the city was attacked when a driver veered a pickup truck into the crowd, killing 14 people and wounding ...
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Smashed streetcar barn in New Orleans following a hurricane. A hurricane struck Louisiana , killed 279 people causing $13 million in damages ($239 million us 2005 USD). While New Orleans was hit where 23 residents were killed, the worst was in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana where some 200 residents drowned when levees broke.
1915 1915 Galveston hurricane: Tropical cyclone Texas: 275 1915 1915 New Orleans hurricane: Tropical cyclone Louisiana: 274 1898 USS Maine: Explosion Havana, Cuba: A major event that precipitated the Spanish–American War. Exact cause remains unknown. 273 1875 Pacific: Accident – shipwreck Off Cape Flattery, Washington: Fatalities estimated ...
Saint Malo (Spanish: San Maló) was a small fishing village that existed along the shore of Lake Borgne in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana as early as the mid-18th century until it was destroyed by the 1915 New Orleans hurricane. [1]