January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
Day of death March 30, 1915
The temperature on March 30, 1915 was between -5.1 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
January 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
January 21 » Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
May 22 » Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
December 20 » World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.
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