WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 1915
Find out what all happened January to June 1915

Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising. (19. January 1915)

World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces. (9. May 1915)

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

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

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. (22. April 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)

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

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

Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous US during the 20th century. (22. May 1915)

Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction. (22. May 1915)

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

The last British Liberal Party government (led by Herbert Henry Asquith) falls. (17. May 1915)

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

World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships were sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles. (18. March 1915)

The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote. (12. January 1915)

William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. (9. June 1915)

Foundation of the British Women's Institute. (16. June 1915)