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next turn year 1915 events

May[edit] Main article: May 1915 May 1 – WWI: General Louis Botha, Prime Minister of South Africa, leads the army in the occupation of German South West Africa.

May 3 – Canadian soldier John McCrae writes the poem "In Flanders Fields".

May 6 – Baseball player Babe Ruth hits his first career home run (off Jack Warhop), for the Boston Red Sox.

May 9 – WWI – Second Battle of Artois: German and French forces fight to a standstill; German forces defeat the British at the Battle of Aubers Ridge.

May 17 – The last purely Liberal government in the United Kingdom ends, when the prime minister H. H. Asquith forms an all-party coalition government, the Asquith coalition ministry, effective May 25.

May 22 Quintinshill rail disaster in Scotland: The collision and fire kill 226, mostly troops, the largest number of fatalities in a rail accident in the United Kingdom.

Lassen Peak, one of the Cascade Volcanoes in California, erupts, sending an ash plume 30,000 feet in the air, and devastating the nearby area with pyroclastic flows and lahars. It is the only volcano to erupt in the contiguous United States this century, until the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

May 28 – International Congress of Women meet at the Hague as a major peace initiative.[6]

May 29 – Teófilo Braga becomes president of Portugal.

June[edit] Main article: June 1915 June 3 – Mexican Revolution: Troops of Álvaro Obregón and Pancho Villa clash at León; Obregón loses his right arm in a grenade attack, but Villa is decisively defeated.

June 5 – Women's suffrage in national elections is introduced in Denmark.

June 9 – U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

June 11 – Friar Leonard Melki and hundreds of other Christians are driven out of Mardin and massacred by Ottoman troops.[7]

June 16 – Women's Institutes are established in Britain.

June 19 – In Iceland, at this time a dependency of Denmark:

Women's suffrage is granted to those over 40.[8]

The modern civil flag of Iceland is adopted officially. July[edit] Main article: July 1915

July – WWI – South West Africa Campaign: The Union of South Africa occupies German South West Africa with assistance from Canada, the United Kingdom, the Portuguese Republic and Portuguese Angola. South Africa will occupy South West Africa until March 1990.

July 1 – WWI: In aerial warfare, German fighter pilot Kurt Wintgens becomes the first person to shoot down another plane, using a machine gun equipped with synchronization gear.

July 7 An extremely overloaded International Railway (New York–Ontario) trolleycar with 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, resulting in 15 casualties.

Sinhalese militia captain Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for inciting race riots, a charge later proved false; he becomes a hero of the Sri Lankan independence movement.

July 9 – WWI: Theodore Seitz, governor of German South West Africa, surrenders to General Louis Botha, between Otavi and Tsumeb.

July 11 – WWI – Battle of Rufiji Delta – German cruiser SMS Königsberg (1905) is forced to scuttle in the Rufiji River, German East Africa (present-day Tanzania).

July 24 – The steamer Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, with the loss of 844 lives.

July 28 – The American occupation of Haiti (1915–34) begins. August[edit] Main article: August 1915

August: Destruction by the 1915 Galveston hurricane.

August 5 – 23 – Hurricane Two of the 1915 Atlantic hurricane season over Galveston and New Orleans leaves 275 dead.

August 6 – WWI – Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.

August 17 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched, for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta.

August 31 – Jimmy Lavender of the Chicago Cubs pitches a no-hitter, against the New York Giants.