Date: January 13, 1915
U-boat Campaign: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare in the waters around Great Britain and Ireland. Date: February 18, 1915 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 18 📅 Events on this day in 1915 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1915Quintinshill Rail Disaster: Three Trains Collide, 227…
RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives. Date: May 1, 1915 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 1 📅 Events on this day in…
Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run. Date: May 6, 1915 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 6 📅 Events on this day in 1915 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1915Italy Joins the Allies in World War I,…
The passenger ship SS Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes. Date: July 24, 1915 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 24 📅 Events…
World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire. Date: September 30, 1915 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 30 📅 Events on this day in 1915 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1915Yuan Shikai Proclaims Empire of…
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. Date: July 1, 1915 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 1 📅 Events on this day in 1915 📅 On This…