The temperature on August 5, 1915 was between 8.5 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 26 » The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
May 24 » World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
June 29 » The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
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.
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