WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO JUNE 1915
Find out what all happened February to June 1915

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

The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens. (21. June 1915)

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

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

The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany. (1. May 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)

Japanese 21 Demands Ultimatum to China (Commemorated as National Day of Humiliation) (7. May 1915)

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

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)

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

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

World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary. (23. May 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)

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)

Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage. (5. June 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)

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)

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)