February 1 » Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
May 26 » Dracula, a Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
June 16 » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
August 2 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
Day of marriage May 6, 1915
The temperature on May 6, 1915 was between 10.2 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
March 26 » The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
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 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.
December 20 » World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.
Day of death April 15, 1936
The temperature on April 15, 1936 was between -1.4 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 29 » The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
March 5 » First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
July 19 » Spanish Civil War: The CNT and UGT call a general strike in Spain - mobilizing workers' militias against the Nationalist forces.
October 1 » Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia dissolves itself, handing control of Catalan defence militias over to the Generalitat.
October 4 » The British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
October 26 » The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
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