Date: July 14, 1915
The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti. Date: July 28, 1915 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 28 📅 Events on this day in 1915 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1915Armenian Genocide Begins: Arrest of 250 Intellectuals in Istanbul, April 24, 1915SS Eastland Capsizes in Chicago…
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…
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…
Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia, USA after his death sentence is commuted by Governor John Slaton. Date: August 17, 1915 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 17 📅 Events on this day in 1915 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1915German Zeppelin Bombing of Great…
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…
World War I: 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. Date: April 22, 1915 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 22 📅 Events on this day in 1915 📅 On This Day (Today)…