The temperature on February 23, 1915 was between -2.2 °C and 1.8 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
July 5 » The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. This is the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.
July 16 » Henry James becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
Day of death March 18, 1915
The temperature on March 18, 1915 was between 1.7 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 21 » Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
April 25 » World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops, begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
July 5 » The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. This is the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.
September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
December 20 » World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.
Day of burial March 22, 1915
The temperature on March 22, 1915 was between -1.3 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 19 » German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
January 22 » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
January 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.
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