1915
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1880s 1890s 1900s – 1910s – 1920s 1930s 1940s |
| Years: | 1912 1913 1914 – 1915 – 1916 1917 1918 |
1915 Media
January 1: HMS Formidable, sunk by a German U-boat.
January 28: United States Coast Guard military branch
March 14: WWI: SMS Dresden, forced to scuttle by the Royal Navy.
May 7: WWI: RMS Lusitania, sunk by a German U-boat.
August: Destruction by the 1915 Galveston hurricane.
Photo of Meg Mundy from the television program Way of the World.
Photo of Fernando Lamas from an appearance on the television program The Pat Boone Show.
Santiago Carrillo firmando en la Feria del Libro de Madrid en 2006
- For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme.
Robert Hofstadter
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Events
- January 26 - President Woodrow Wilson says yes to making Rocky Mountain National Park.
- February 8 - The Birth of a Nation is released.
- April 24 – The Armenian genocide begins.
- May 23 - The Italian Campaign of World War I begins.
- November 17 - Morocco starts using its current flag.
Births
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- February 1 – Stanley Matthews, English footballer (d. 2000)
February
March
April
- April 21 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (d. 2001)
- April 27 – Hovhannes Shiraz, Armenian poet (d. 1984)
May
- May 6 – Orson Welles, American movie director, screenwriter and actor (d. 1985)
June
- June 4 – Modibo Keïta, 1st President of Mali (d. 1977)
- June 28 – David Honeyboy Edwards, American blues guitarist and singer
July
- July 28 - Frankie Yankovic, American polka musician (d. 1998)
August
- August 29 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
September
October
- October 24 – Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998)
November
- November 25 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean ruler (d. 2006)
December
- December 12 – Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (d. 1998)
- December 19 – Édith Piaf, French singer (d. 1963)
Deaths
- April 27 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (b. 1872)
- November 14 – Booker T. Washington, American inventor, educator, and writer (b. 1856)