The temperature on January 16, 1915 was between 4.3 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 21.7 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 » Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
May 22 » Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.
October 14 » World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
Day of death January 31, 1915
The temperature on January 31, 1915 was between -0.4 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 11.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 12 » The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
January 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
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.
August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
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