February 1915 calendar

Events

• 03 Feb 1915 Turkish and German army reach Suez Canal.
• 04 Feb 1915 Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Mississippi Penitentiary.
• 08 Feb 1915 D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
• 12 Feb 1915 The cornerstone is laid for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
• 17 Feb 1915 Edward Stone, first US combatant to die in WWI, is mortally wounded.
• 18 Feb 1915 Germany begins a blockade of England.
• 19 Feb 1915 British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast.
• 20 Feb 1915 (to December 4) The Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco. The event is held to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, and the 400th anniversary of Vasco Nunez de Balboa's discovery of the Pacific Ocean.
• 21 Feb 1915 20th Russian Army corps surrenders.
• 22 Feb 1915 World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
• 23 Feb 1915 Germany sinks US ships Carib and Evelyn and torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin.
• 26 Feb 1915 Malancourt, Argonnen - first (German) flame-thrower.

Famous Birthday

• Ann Sheridan

  American actress known as the "oomph girl.

• Abba Eban

  Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages.

• Georges-André Chevallaz
• Jean Richer
• Norman Wisdom

  English actor and comedian (d. 2010).

• Lorne Greene

  Ottawa, Ontario -- Actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica).

• Norman Wisdom

  English actor and comedian (d. 2010).

• Georges Guétary

  Egyptian-French singer dancer and actor (d. 1997).

• Paul Tibbets

  American military piilot who became known in WWII for commanding and piloting the Enola Gay, the plane which dropped the atomic bomb on...

• Dick Emery

  Actor (Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love), dies at 65.

• Zero Mostel

  American actor and comedian (d. 1977).

• Ermelinda De Felice
• Phyllis Calvert

  British actress (Born 1915).

• Esther Figueiredo Ferraz
• Marcel Landowski

  French composer, conductor and founder of the Paris Orchestra.

• Jon Hall

  American actor onscreen from 1935, having changed his name to Charles Locher.

• Georges Gorse

  French politician and diplomat who held a wide range of positions of state.

• Peter Medawar

  Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1987).

• Edmond Charlot
• Léon Gaultier
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Famous Deaths

• Wladyslaw Gorski composer

  dies at age 68.

• Albert J-BJ Thijs Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo)

  dies at age 65.

• Charles Emile Waldteufel composer

  dies at age 77.

• Emil Waldteufel [Charles Levy]

  French composer (Estudiantina), dies.

• Robert Smalls Reconstruction congressman

  dies at age 75 in South Carolina.

• George Mimot physician (Nobel Prize-1934)

  dies.

• Emile Waldteufel

  French composer (Born 1837).

• Ross Barnes

  American baseball player and manager (d. 1915).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Billy Murray - Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers
2. John McCormack - My Wild Irish Rose
3. Elsie Baker - Home, Sweet Home
4. John McCormack & Lucy Isabelle Marsh - Aida - O Terra Addio (Angels Guard Thee)
5. Billy Murray - When the Grown-Up Ladies Act Like Babies (I've Got to Love 'Em, That's All)