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next turn year 1915

events

September[edit] Main article: September 1915 September 5 – The Zimmerwald Conference begins in Switzerland.

September 6 – The prototype military tank is first tested by the British Army.

September 7 – Former cartoonist John B. Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.

September 8 – WWI: A Zeppelin raid destroys No. 61 Farringdon Road, London; it is rebuilt in 1917, and called The Zeppelin Building.

September 11 – The Pennsylvania Railroad begins electrified commuter rail service between Paoli and Philadelphia, using overhead AC trolley wires for power. This type of system is later used in long-distance passenger trains between New York City, Washington, D.C., and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

September 25 – October 14 – WWI – Battle of Loos: British forces take the French town of Loos, but with substantial casualties, and are unable to press their advantage. This is the first time the British use poison gas in World War I, and also their first large-scale use of 'New' (or Kitchener's Army) units.

September 30 – WWI: Serbian Army private Radoje Ljutovac became the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft, with ground-to-air fire.

October[edit] Main article: October 1915 October – Franz Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) is first published in Germany.[10]

October 10 – Albert Cashier dies at age 71.

October 12 – WWI: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad, for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium.

October 19

Mexican Revolution: The U.S. recognizes the Mexican government of Venustiano Carranza de facto (not de jure until 1917).

October 21 – The United Daughters of the Confederacy holds its first annual meeting outside the South, in San Francisco. Historian General Mildred Rutherford addresses the gathering on the "Historical Sins of Omission & Commission", of Yankee historians.

October 23 – WWI: The torpedoing of armored cruiser SMS Prinz Adalbert (1901) results in only 3 men being rescued from a crew of 675, the greatest single loss of life for the Imperial German Navy in the Baltic Sea during the war.

October 25 – Lyda Conley, the first American Indian woman to appear before the Supreme Court of the United States as a lawyer, is admitted to practice there.[11]

October 27 – William Morris "Billy" Hughes becomes the 7th Prime Minister of Australia.

October 28 – St. Johns School fire: Fire at St. John's School in Peabody, Massachusetts, claims the lives of 21 girls between the ages of 7 and 17.

November[edit] Main article: November 1915 November 18 – The U.S. silent film Inspiration, the first mainstream movie in which a leading actress (Audrey Munson) appears nude, is released.

November 21 – British polar exploration ship Endurance finally breaks apart from pressure of ice around it and sinks into the Weddell Sea, stranding Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition party in the Antarctic.[12][13]

November 23 – The Triangle Film Corporation opens its new motion picture theater in Massillon, Ohio.

November 24 – William J. Simmons revives the American Civil War era Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain, Georgia.

November 25 – Albert Einstein presents part of his theory of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.[14]

December[edit] Main article: December 1915 December 10 – The 1 millionth Ford car rolls off the assembly line, at the River Rouge Plant in Detroit, Michigan.

December 12 – President of the Republic of China Yuan Shikai declares himself Emperor.

December 18 – United States President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith B. Galt, in Washington, D.C.

December 23 – HMHS Britannic, which will be the largest British ship lost in WWI (though with only 30 fatalities), departs Liverpool on her maiden voyage as a hospital ship.

December 26 – The Irish Republican Brotherhood Military Council decides to stage an Easter Rising in 1916.