August 1915 calendar

Events

• 05 Aug 1915 German troops over run Warsaw
• 07 Aug 1915 St. Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Brooklyn rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, and Card runner scores
• 09 Aug 1915 British attack at Chanak Bair at Gallipolis
• 14 Aug 1915 British transport Royal Edward sank by German U-boat kills 1000
• 15 Aug 1915 Journalist Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, convicted of murder in Georgia
• 17 Aug 1915 German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana
• 18 Aug 1915 Braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1
• 19 Aug 1915 Rationing laws go into effect in the Netherlands
• 20 Aug 1915 Italy declares war on Turkey
• 23 Aug 1915 Czar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army
• 25 Aug 1915 Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage
• 26 Aug 1915 German troops over run Brest-Litovsk, Russia
• 29 Aug 1915 US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
• 31 Aug 1915 Chicago White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits New York Giants, 2-0.

Famous Birthday

• Ingrid Bergman

  Swedish-American actress who won Oscars for "Gaslight," 1945 and "Anastasia," 1957.

• Claude Roy

  French writer, a poet and author.

• André Fraye
• Princess Lilian Duchess of Halland
• Warren Avis

  American businessman founded Avis Rent a Car System (d. 2007).

• Ralph Thomas
• Keith B McCutcheon
• Bernard Michelin
• Antonio Innocenti

  Italian ecclesiastic ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1938.

• Maurice Teynac

  French actor, who starred in the 1948 film "The Lame Devil" under the direction of Sacha Guitry.

• Ring Lardner Jr

  American journalist and screenwriter (d. 2000).

• Lil Son Jackson
• Wynonie Harris

  Rocker.

• Alex Wojciechowicz NFL center (Lions

  Eagles).

• Liesbeth Saijers

  Dutch sculptor.

• Alma Gardeslan

  Surinamese / Dutch folklorist.

• Denys Hay

  Historian.

• William Bardwell

  Composer.

• Lord Mishcon

  Economist.

• Sal Santen

  Dutch writer.

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Famous Deaths

• Richard Kiepert

  German cartographer (Africa), dies at 68.

• Henry Longbottom

  English lieutenant, dies in battle.

• Albert Siegfried Bettelheim

  Jew convicted of murder, lynched.

• Leo Frank

  Lynched for raping 12 year old in Georgia.

• Henry Moseley

  English physicist and chemist (d. 1915).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Billy Murray - The Little Ford Rambled Right Along
2. Lyric Quartet - Down Among the Sheltering Palms
3. Peerless Quartet - Cows May Come, Cows May Go, But the Bull Goes On Forever
4. Elsie Baker & James F. Harrison - The Flame of Love
5. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - Minstrel Parade