WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO APRIL 1915
Find out what all happened January to April 1915

World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target. (19. January 1915)

World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare. (22. February 1915)

An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces. (28. January 1915)

French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I. (18. April 1915)

World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins—The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles. (25. April 1915)

Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco. (25. January 1915)

Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan. (21. January 1915)

World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli. (19. February 1915)

NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded. (3. March 1915)

The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress. (26. January 1915)

Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life. (27. March 1915)

Ice Hockey: The Vancouver Millionaires sweep the Ottawa Senators three-games-to-none to win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association. (26. March 1915)

Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia. (18. January 1915)

The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress. (12. January 1915)

An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800. (13. January 1915)

D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles. (8. February 1915)

The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. (24. April 1915)

Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon. (22. January 1915)

World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia. (31. January 1915)

World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew. (14. March 1915)