Notable Historical Events - 1915
1915 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
DW Griffith shows "Clansman" at a sneak preview |
Jan 1 |
Jews of Laibach Austria expelled |
Jan 4 |
1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho |
Jan 4 |
Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops |
Jan 9 |
Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, SF |
Jan 11 |
Col Jacob Ruppert & Col Tillinghast Huston purchase Yanks for $460,000 |
Jan 12 |
House of Reps rejects proposal to give women right to vote |
Jan 13 |
Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 29,800 |
Jan 13 |
Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, presents plan for assault on Dardanelles |
Jan 15 |
Japan claims economic control of China |
Jan 15 |
Sydney, Kern & Smith's musical "Love o' Mike," premieres in NYC |
Jan 16 |
Congress authorizes $1 & $50 Panama-Pacific Intl Expo gold coin |
Jan 17 |
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's Hospital in Amsterdam opens |
Jan 17 |
Russia occupies Bukovina & Western Ukraine |
Jan 18 |
Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die |
Jan 18 |
Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia. |
Jan 19 |
1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die |
Jan 19 |
Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude |
Jan 21 |
Kiwanis International founded in Detroit |
Jan 24 |
German-British sea battle at Dogger Bank & Helgoland |
Jan 25 |
Alexander Graham Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF |
Jan 25 |
Giordano, Sardou & Moreau's opera "Madame Sans Gêne" premieres in NYC |
Jan 25 |
Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (NY to SF) |
Jan 26 |
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo established |
Jan 27 |
US Marines occupy Haiti |
Jan 28 |
1st US ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK) |
Jan 28 |
US Coast Guard created from Life Saving & Revenue Cutter services |
Jan 28 |
US Pres Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates |
Jan 30 |
German submarine attack on Le Havre |
Jan 30 |
No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Vic v Tas |
Jan 31 |
1st (German) poison gas attack, against Russians |
Feb 3 |
Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal |
Feb 4 |
Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Miss Penitentiary |
Feb 7 |
1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received |
Feb 7 |
2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army |
Feb 8 |
D. W. Griffith's silent film "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA - first 12-reel film in America |
Feb 10 |
US President Wilson warns Germany that the US will hold it 'to a strict accountability' for 'property endangered or lives lost' |
Feb 10 |
US President Wilson protests to Britain on the use of US flags on British merchant ships to deceive the Germans |
Feb 13 |
The French try to drive the Germans forces back into the Champagne region |
Feb 16 |
Frank Home Run Baker, 28, announces retirement following a contract dispute with Connie Mack. He sits out 1915 season |
Feb 17 |
Edward Stone, 1st US combatant to die in WW I, is mortally wounded |
Feb 18 |
Germany begins a blockade of Britain |
Feb 19 |
British fleet fire on Dardanelles coast |
Feb 20 |
Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco |
Feb 21 |
20th Russian Army corps surrenders |
Feb 21 |
World's Fair in SF opens |
Feb 22 |
Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war |
Feb 23 |
Germany sinks US ships Carib & Evelyn & torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin |
Feb 23 |
Nevada enforces convenient divorce law |
Feb 26 |
Malancourt, Argonnen (1st (German) flame-thrower |
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 |
Mar 2 |
British vice adm Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts |
Mar 2 |
Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine |
Mar 3 |
US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics(NACA) created, the predecessor of NASA |
Mar 5 |
World War I: The LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend. |
Mar 6 |
Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos |
Mar 8 |
1st US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned |
Mar 10 |
British Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle |
Mar 11 |
The British declare a blockade of all German ports |
Mar 13 |
Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit |
Mar 14 |
German cruiser Dresden scuttled off Más a Tierra, Chile, having been pursued by the Royal Navy after the Battle of the Falkland Islands, with her engines worn out and virtually no coal. |
Mar 16 |
Brit battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle |
Mar 16 |
Federal Trade Commission organizes |
Mar 18 |
Failed British attack in Dardanelles |
Mar 18 |
French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed |
Mar 19 |
Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time) |
Mar 23 |
Zion Mule Corp forms |
Mar 25 |
1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21 |
Mar 25 |
German U boat torpedoes Neth merchant ship Medea |
Mar 26 |
Stanley Cup: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Ottawa Senators |
Mar 27 |
Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid |
Apr 4 |
Germany protests vigorously to the US, claiming it must insist that Britain lifts its blockade and assert American neutrality |
Apr 5 |
French begin Woëvre-offensive |
Apr 5 |
Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title |
Apr 14 |
A's Herb Pennock is within 1 out of pitching 1st Opening Day no-hitter |
Apr 14 |
Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo |
Apr 14 |
The Turks invade Armenia. |
Apr 15 |
Manuel de Falla's ballet "El Amor Brujo" premieres in Madrid |
Apr 15 |
NY Giant Rube Marquard no-hits Bkln, 2-0 |
Apr 18 |
French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I. |
Apr 19 |
19th Boston Marathon won by Edouard Fabre of Canada in 2:31:41.2 |
Apr 20 |
The Armenians rise and seize the Turkish town of Van, which they hold until Russians relieve them on 19 May; thousands of Armenians are killed |
Apr 22 |
1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I |
Apr 22 |
The Second Battle of Ypres begins on the Western Front |
Apr 22 |
NY Yankees don pinstripes & hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time |
Apr 23 |
ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA) |
Apr 24 |
German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper |
Apr 24 |
Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day) |
Apr 24 |
Pitts' Frank Allen no-hits St Louis (Federal League), 2-0 |
Apr 25 |
First landings at Gaba Tepe and Cape Helles on the Gallipoli Peninsula |
Apr 26 |
Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France & Russia |
Apr 27 |
Counterattack launched by Turkish forces under the command of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk against allied troops |
May 1 |
British liner Lusitania leaves NY for Liverpool |
May 1 |
German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight |
May 2 |
Old Fordham Road in Bronx renamed Landing Road |
May 3 |
John McCrae writes the poem "In Flanders Fields" |
May 4 |
Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungary & Germany |
May 5 |
German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom |
May 6 |
German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland |
May 6 |
Red Sox Babe Ruth pitching debut & 1st HR, loses to Yanks 4-3 in 15 |
May 6 |
The Allies on Cape Helles launch three attacks to enlarge their beachheads; after terrible losses, they advance about three miles |
May 7 |
SS Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost |
May 8 |
41st Kentucky Derby: Joe Notter aboard Regret wins in 2:05.4 |
May 9 |
German & French fight Battle of Artois |
May 10 |
Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England |
May 12 |
Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250 |
May 12 |
Franklin K Mathiews presents idea of "Book Week" |
May 13 |
US Secretary of State Bryan sends a note to Germany demanding that Germany disavow the attacks on the Lusitania and make immediate reparations; however, the note is written only to 'pacify exited public opinion', according to Bryan |
May 15 |
AT&T becomes 1st corporation to have 1 million stockholders |
May 17 |
40th Preakness: Douglas Hoffman aboard Rhine Maiden wins in 1:58 |
May 17 |
Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st & winds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever |
May 17 |
Last liberal British government of Asquith falls |
May 17 |
National Baptist Convention chartered |
May 20 |
Bataafsche Petroleum Me begins oil extraction of Maracaibo |
May 22 |
Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna, Scotland) |
May 22 |
Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain, other than Mount St. Helens, to erupt in the continental US during the 20th century. |
May 23 |
Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary during WW I |
May 24 |
Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations |
May 25 |
2nd Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties |
May 25 |
Chicago Claude Hendrix no-hits Pitts (Federal League), 10-0 |
May 26 |
H. H. Asquith forms a coalition government in the United Kingdom |
May 31 |
An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London |
May 31 |
Indianapolis 500: Ralph DePalma wins in 5:33:55.619 (144.583 km/h) |
Jun 1 |
1st Zeppelin air raid over England |
Jun 3 |
The Austro-German forces recapture Przemysl, a crucial city in southeastern Poland, and the entire Russian front begins to collapse |
Jun 5 |
47th Belmont: George Byrne aboard The Finn wins in 2:18.6 |
Jun 5 |
Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage. |
Jun 8 |
92°F (33.3°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands |
Jun 9 |
William Jennings Bryan quits as US Secretary of State |
Jun 9 |
US President Wilson sends the second Lusitania note to Germany demanding reparations and prevention of 'recurrence of anything so obviously subversive of the principles of warfare'; Wilson refuses to recognize the 'war zone' that Germany has proclaimed around the British Isles |
Jun 10 |
British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon |
Jun 12 |
29th US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beats Hazel Wightman (4-6 6-2 6-0) |
Jun 15 |
US government mints 1st $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo |
Jun 16 |
The foundation of the British Women's Institute. |
Jun 17 |
The League to Enforce Peace is organised at Independence Hall in Philadelphia with William Howard Taft as president; its program anticipates the League of Nations |
Jun 18 |
21st US Golf Open: John Travers shoots a 297 at Baltusrol GC NJ |
Jun 20 |
German offensive in Argonnes |
Jun 21 |
Anti-British revolt in South Africa ends with arrest of General De Law |
Jun 21 |
The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens. |
Jun 22 |
BMT, then Brooklyn Rapid Transit, begins subway service |
Jun 23 |
Italians launch the first of what will become 11 battles to dislodge the Austrians from the Isonzo River, which keeps the Italians from Trieste |
Jun 23 |
Yanks get record 16 walks & 3 wild pitches beat A's Bruno Hass, 15-0 |
Jun 23 |
Zeb Turner, country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag) |
Jun 26 |
Germany suppresses "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace |
Jun 27 |
100°F (38°C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record) |
Jun 27 |
Dutch SDAP demonstrates against conscription |
Jul 1 |
Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service |
Jul 1 |
Australian Survey Corps becomes part of Military Forces |
Jul 2 |
Erich Muenter, an instructor in German at Cornell University, explodes a bomb in the US Senate reception room |
Jul 3 |
After exploding a bomb in the US Senate reception room the previous day, Erich Muenter, an instructor in German at Cornell University, shoots JP Morgan for representing the British government in war contract negotiations |
Jul 7 |
A Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15. |
Jul 8 |
The Germans reply to Wilson's second Lusitania note by saying that Americans may sail on clearly marked neutral ships, but Germany does not deal with Wilson's other demands |
Jul 9 |
Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa |
Jul 10 |
British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa |
Jul 11 |
German cruiser Königsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam |
Jul 15 |
The head of German propaganda in the US, Dr Heinrich Albert, loses his briefcase on a subway in New York City; an examination of its content reveals an extensive network of German espionage and subversion across the US |
Jul 15 |
The Austro-German forces launch an offensive along the Eastern Front |
Jul 17 |
Italian offensive at Isonzo |
Jul 18 |
2nd Battle of Isonzo begins & ends with loss of 280,000 men |
Jul 18 |
Boston Braves start move from last place to become world series champs |
Jul 19 |
Dutch accidents at sea law enforced |
Jul 19 |
Wash Nationals steal record 8 bases vs Cleve Indians in the 1st inning |
Jul 21 |
Wilson sends the third Lusitania note, warning Germany that future infringement of American rights will be deemed 'deliberately unfriendly' |
Jul 24 |
Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die |
Jul 26 |
International School for Wijsbegeerte forms |
Jul 28 |
Because of virtual anarchy, US Marines go ashore in Haiti on orders from President Wilson; this will lead to an occupation that will last until 1934 |
Jul 29 |
Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam HR |
Aug 5 |
The Latin-American Conference Convenes in Washington, with representatives from leading South American nations joining the US to discuss conditions in Mexico |
Aug 5 |
Warsaw, evacuated by the Russians, is occupied by Germans |
Aug 6 |
The British land more troops at Suvla Bay on the northern shore of Gallipoli in an effort to break the stalemate on the peninsula |
Aug 7 |
Assault against Russell's Top at Gallipolis, 232 Australians die |
Aug 7 |
St Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Bkln rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, & Card runner scores |
Aug 9 |
British attack at Chanak Bair at Gallipoli |
Aug 12 |
"Of Human Bondage" by William Somerset Maugham, published |
Aug 14 |
British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000 |
Aug 15 |
Journalist Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, convicted of murder in Georgia |
Aug 16 |
KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0 |
Aug 17 |
German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana |
Aug 17 |
Hurricane strikes Galveston, TX (275 killed) |
Aug 17 |
Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Ga after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life |
Aug 18 |
Braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1 |
Aug 19 |
Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands |
Aug 19 |
World War I: the Battle of Van begins |
Aug 19 |
British liner 'SS Arabic' sunk by German submarine without warning leaving Liverpool for New York; killing 44. Creates diplomatic incident |
Aug 20 |
White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from Cleve in exchange for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, & $31,500 |
Aug 21 |
Italy declares war on Turkey in World War One |
Aug 23 |
Tsar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army |
Aug 25 |
The British decide to try capture Constantinople and force Turkey out of the war; 78,000 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli |
Aug 25 |
Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage |
Aug 26 |
German troops overrun Brest-Litovsk, Russia |
Aug 31 |
Chicago White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits NY Giants, 2-0 |
Aug 31 |
Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
Sep 1 |
The German ambassador to the US pledges again that German submarines will no longer sink liners without warning and providing safety of passengers and crew following the sinking of the British liner \'Arabic\' |
Sep 5 |
35th US Men's Tennis: William Johnston beats McLoughlin (1-6 6-0 7-5 10-8) |
Sep 5 |
Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland |
Sep 5 |
Tsar Nicholas II, distressed by increasing Russian losses, assumes personal command of his nation's military forces; clearly a symbolic act and devastating for his leadership |
Sep 7 |
35th US Men's Tennis: Wm Johnston beats M E McLoughlin (1-6 6-0 7-5 10-8) |
Sep 7 |
Johnny Gruelle patents his Raggedy Ann doll (US Patent D47789) |
Sep 7 |
St Louis Dave Davenport no-hits Chicago (Federal League), 3-0 |
Sep 8 |
Association of Negro Life & History founded |
Sep 9 |
Association for study of Negro Life & History forms by Carter G Woodson |
Sep 16 |
Tsar Nicolas II adjourns 4th Duma |
Sep 16 |
US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years |
Sep 18 |
Boston Braves trounce St Louis Cardinals 20-1 |
Sep 21 |
CH Chubb buys Stonehenge for £6,600 |
Sep 21 |
Emanuel Querido ("Kerido") begins publishing Querido |
Sep 22 |
Red Sox ask Braves for use of their larger park for World Series |
Sep 22 |
Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas) holds its 1st class |
Sep 22 |
Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic College in US, opens in NO LA |
Sep 25 |
Battle of Loos commenced, lasted until 14th October. Chlorine gas deployed by the British was blown back into their own trenches: 59,000 British & 26,000 German casualties |
Sep 25 |
The Second Battle of Champagne begins. |
Sep 28 |
Battle of Kut-el-Amara: British defeat Turks in Mesopotamia |
Sep 29 |
1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent |
Sep 29 |
British army conquerors Chilly al Imara, Mesopotamia |
Sep 29 |
Dutch Opera's 1st performance |
Sep 29 |
Herbert/Blossoms musical "Princess Pat" premieres in NYC |
Sep 29 |
Hurricane claims 275 in Mississippi Delta |
Sep 29 |
Philadelphia Phillies clinch their 1st pennant |
Sep 30 |
Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit |
Oct 3 |
7.8 earthquake shakes Pleasant Valley, Nevada |
Oct 4 |
Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established |
Oct 5 |
Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers. |
Oct 5 |
Allies land troops at the northern Greek city of Salonika; Greece is nominally neutral but allows the landing |
Oct 8 |
Battle of Loos WWI, almost 430,000 French, British & Germans killed |
Oct 8 |
Phillies win their 1st & only World Series game before 1980, beating Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally |
Oct 9 |
Belgrade Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders |
Oct 9 |
Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, NY |
Oct 9 |
Louis Kaufmans "Unchastened Woman" premieres in NYC |
Oct 9 |
Woodrow Wilson becomes first US President to attend a World Series game |
Oct 11 |
Bulgarian anti Serbian offensive begins |
Oct 11 |
Despite international protest, Edith Cavell, and English nurse in Belgium, is executed by the Germans for aiding the escape of Allied prisoners |
Oct 12 |
Ford Motor Company under Henry Ford manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile |
Oct 12 |
Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citzens who identify themselves, with dual nationalities |
Oct 13 |
Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 1 in 12th World Series |
Oct 16 |
Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria |
Oct 18 |
3rd Italians offensive at Isonzo |
Oct 19 |
Russia/Italy declares war on Bulgaria |
Oct 19 |
US bankers arrange a $500 million loan to the British and French |
Oct 21 |
1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris |
Oct 21 |
William Jennings Bryan's successor as US Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, sends a note to Britain protesting interference with US shipping |
Oct 23 |
1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa) |
Oct 23 |
25,000 women march in New York City demanding right to vote |
Oct 25 |
Atty James L Curtis named minister of Liberia |
Oct 27 |
Andrew Fisher is replaced as Labour Prime Minister by William 'Billy' Hughes, who will advocate a more active role for Australians in the war |
Oct 28 |
Richard Strauss' Alpensymfonie, premieres in Berlin |
Oct 29 |
Aristide Briand becomes premier of France |
Oct 29 |
Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia |
Nov 1 |
Parris Island is officially designated a Marine Corps Recruit Depot. |
Nov 2 |
First US election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio |
Nov 6 |
1st military flight in Dutch East Indies (Tandjong Priok) |
Nov 6 |
Sophokles Skouloudis forms Greek government |
Nov 7 |
An Austrian submarine sinks the Italian liner 'Ancona' without warning; 27 Americans are among the 272 who lose their lives |
Nov 9 |
Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedos, killing 272 |
Nov 12 |
Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice archipelago |
Nov 12 |
Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry |
Nov 14 |
Thomas Masaryk demands independence for Czechoslovakia |
Nov 20 |
7th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Rowing, 13-7 |
Nov 23 |
On the Tigris River in Mesopotamia, the Battle of Ctesiphon between Allied and Turkish forces enters its second day |
Nov 24 |
Serbian leader flees to Albania |
Nov 29 |
Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island, California. |
Nov 30 |
St John Ervine's "John Ferguson" premieres in Dublin |
Dec 1 |
The US requests that Germany withdraw its military and naval attaches from the Embassy in Washington |
Dec 3 |
General Joseph Joffre becomes Commander-in-Chief of the French Armies |
Dec 4 |
F F Fletcher is 1st admiral to receive Congressional Medal of Honor |
Dec 4 |
Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County Ga |
Dec 4 |
Panama-Pacific International Exposition closes in San Francisco |
Dec 4 |
Henry Ford's peace ship, Oscar II, sails for Europe 'to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas' |
Dec 8 |
Jean Sibelius' 5th Symphony in E premieres |
Dec 8 |
John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" appears anonymously in "Punch" magazine |
Dec 12 |
1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau, Germany |
Dec 12 |
Aristide Briand forms French war government |
Dec 12 |
Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia |
Dec 14 |
Jack Johnson is 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion |
Dec 20 |
Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia |
Dec 20 |
Final withdraw of all allied troops from Anzac Cove |
Dec 21 |
10.17" (25.83 cm) of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record) |
Dec 22 |
Federal Baseball League disolved |
Dec 22 |
Organized baseball & Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati |
Dec 23 |
J Kern/S Greene's musical "Very Good Eddie" premieres in NYC |
Dec 25 |
Irving Berlin & Harry B Smith's musical premieres in NYC |
Dec 27 |
US Iron and Steel workers begin a 3-week strike in Ohio for a eight-hour-day; they are successful as the US needs steel for armaments |
Dec 28 |
SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph |
Dec 28 |
Today the British Cabinet recognizes the true nature of the war by deciding to institute compulsory military service, with single men to be conscripted before married ones |
Dec 30 |
Cromarty Harbour, Scot-British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die |
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