WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 1915
Find out what all happened January to August 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)

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

The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes. (24. July 1915)

A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h). (17. August 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)

Japanese 21 Demands Ultimatum to China (Commemorated as National Day of Humiliation) (7. May 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)

Lieutenant Kurt Wintgens achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker. (1. July 1915)

World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. (24. May 1915)

US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident. (29. August 1915)

Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan. (21. 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 Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress. (26. January 1915)

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

World War I: Battle of Sari Bair – the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay. (6. August 1915)

World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire (7. May 1915)

An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15. (7. July 1915)

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

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)