Historical Events in 1915 (Part 2)

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• Sep 7 Johnny Gruelle patents his Raggedy Ann doll (US Patent D47789)
• Sep 7 St Louis Terriers' Dave Davenport no-hits Chicago Whales (Federal League), 3-0
• Sep 8 Association of Negro Life & History founded in the US (now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History)
• Sep 8 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: William Johnston beats Maurice McLoughlin 1-6, 6-0, 7-5, 10-8 in first US event held at West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, New York
• Sep 9 Association for the Study of Negro Life and History formed in Chicago by Carter G. Woodson and others. Now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
• Sep 16 Tsar Nicolas II adjourns 4th Duma
• Sep 16 US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years
• Sep 18 Jeeves and Bertie Wooster make their first appearance in P. G. Wodehouse short story "Extricating Young Gussie" published in "The Saturday Evening Post" in the US

• Sep 21 Emanuel Querido ("Kerido") begins publishing Querido
• Sep 22 Boston Red Sox ask Boston Braves for use of Braves Field (10,000+ capacity) for Baseball World Series against Philadelphia Phillies
• Sep 22 Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas) holds its 1st class
• Sep 22 Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic College in US, opens in NO LA
• Sep 25 Battle of Loos commenced, lasted until 14th October. Chlorine gas deployed by the British was blown back into their own trenches: 59,000 British & 26,000 German casualties
• Sep 25 The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
• Sep 28 Battle of Kut-el-Amara: British defeat Turks in Mesopotamia
• Sep 29 1st transcontinental radio telephone message sent by U.S. naval radio station at Arlington, Virginia. to naval radio station at Mare Island, San Francisco
• Sep 29 British army conquers Chilly al Imara, Mesopotamia
• Sep 29 Dutch Opera's 1st performance
• Sep 29 Herbert/Blossoms musical "Princess Pat" premieres in NYC
• Sep 29 Hurricane claims 275 in Mississippi Delta
• Sep 29 Philadelphia Phillies clinch their 1st pennant
• Sep 30 Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit
• Oct 3 7.8 earthquake shakes Pleasant Valley, Nevada
• Oct 4 Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established
• Oct 5 Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
• Oct 5 Allies land troops at the northern Greek city of Salonika; Greece is nominally neutral but allows the landing

• Oct 8 Battle of Loos on WWI Western Front ends, German forces contain British attack (85,000 casualties)
• Oct 8 Phillies win their 1st & only World Series game before 1980, beating Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally
• Oct 9 Belgrade, Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders
• Oct 9 Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, New York
• Oct 9 Louis Kaufmans comedy "Unchastened Woman" premieres in New York City

• Oct 11 Bulgarian anti-Serbian offensive begins

• Oct 12 Despite international protest, Edith Cavell an English nurse in Belgium, is executed by the Germans for aiding the escape of Allied prisoners
• Oct 13 Baseball World Series: Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Phillies, 5-4 at the Baker Bowl to clinch series 4-1
• Oct 16 Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria
• Oct 18 3rd Italian offensive at Isonzo
• Oct 19 Russia and Italy declare war on Bulgaria
• Oct 19 US bankers arrange a $500 million loan to the British and French
• Oct 21 1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris

• Oct 23 1st national horseshoe throwing championship at Kellerton, Iowa

• Oct 25 James L Curtis named US Minister for Liberia
• Oct 27 Andrew Fisher is replaced as Labour Prime Minister by William 'Billy' Hughes, who will advocate a more active role for Australians in the war

• Nov 1 Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
• Nov 2 First US election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio
• Nov 6 1st military flight in Dutch East Indies (Tandjong Priok)
• Nov 6 Sophokles Skouloudis forms Greek government
• Nov 8 An Austrian-Hungarian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Italian liner 'Ancona' without warning, killing over 200 people
• Nov 12 Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice archipelago in the Western Pacific
• Nov 12 Theodore William Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

• Nov 20 CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Hamilton Tigers win 2nd title; beat Toronto Rowing Association, 13-7
• Nov 23 On the Tigris River in Mesopotamia, the Battle of Ctesiphon between Allied and Turkish forces enters its second day
• Nov 24 Serbian leader flees to Albania
• Nov 29 Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island, California
• Nov 30 St John Ervine's "John Ferguson" premieres in Dublin
• Dec 1 The US requests that Germany withdraw its military and naval attaches from the Embassy in Washington
• Dec 3 General Joseph Joffre becomes Commander-in-Chief of the French Armies
• Dec 4 Frank Friday Fletcher is first US admiral to receive Congressional Medal of Honor
• Dec 4 Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County, Georgia
• Dec 4 Panama-Pacific International Exposition closes in San Francisco

• Dec 12 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau, Germany
• Dec 12 Aristide Briand forms French war government
• Dec 12 Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia
• Dec 20 Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia
• Dec 20 Final withdraw of all allied troops from Anzac Cove
• Dec 21 10.17" (25.83 cm) of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record)
• Dec 22 Organized baseball and Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati; Federal Baseball League dissolves

• Dec 27 US Iron and Steel workers begin a 3-week strike in Ohio for a eight-hour-day; they are successful as the US needs steel for armaments
• Dec 28 San Francisco City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
• Dec 28 Today the British Cabinet recognizes the true nature of the war by deciding to institute compulsory military service, with single men to be conscripted before married ones
• Dec 30 Cromarty Harbour, Scotland - British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die

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