January 25 » Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
July 26 » In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman's resignation.
July 27 » Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
September 25 » The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
October 12 » Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.
December 29 » Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.
Day of marriage August 26, 1915
The temperature on August 26, 1915 was between 8.3 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
March 20 » Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
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.
May 22 » Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
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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