March 1915 calendar

Events

• 02 Mar 1915 British Vice Admiral Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts.
• 03 Mar 1915 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created.
• 06 Mar 1915 Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos.
• 10 Mar 1915 British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle.
• 14 Mar 1915 German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile.
• 15 Mar 1915 Netherlands merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed and sinks in North Sea.
• 16 Mar 1915 British battle cruisers Inflexible and Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle.
• 18 Mar 1915 French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed.
• 19 Mar 1915 Pluto is photographed for the first time but is not then classified as a planet.
• 23 Mar 1915 Zion Mule Corp forms.
• 25 Mar 1915 The U.S. submarine F-4 sinks off Hawaii 21 are killed.
• 26 Mar 1915 Stanley Cup: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Ottawa Senators in 3.
• 27 Mar 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.
• 28 Mar 1915 The first Roman Catholic Liturgy is celebrated by Archbishop John Ireland at the newly consecrated Cathedral of Saint Paul in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Famous Birthday

• Jacques Chaban-Delmas

  French politician, Prime Minister of France (1969-1972), who also played tennis.

• Eva Pierrakos

  Austrian mystic, a channeler who had the clearest voice and vision that many had ever heard.

• Sviatoslav Richter

  Ukrainian pianist and composer (d. 1997).

• Laurent Schwartz (mathematician)
• Jean Anglade

  French writer, who won le Prix du roman populiste in 1957 for "L'Immeuble Taub," and le Prix des libraires in 1962 for "La Foi et la...

• Harry Bertoia

  American construction artist, the creator of metal, wire and blowtorch decorator screens used in office buildings, churches, airports and...

• Kenneth Arnold
• László Csatáry

  Hungarian criminal (d. 2013).

• Carlos Surinach

  Spanish/American musician and composer.

• Patricia Morison

  American actress and singer.

• Maurice Marsac
• James V Neel
• Robert Mallet

  French academic, writer and radio personality.

• Francis Berry

  English poet and critic born in Malaysia who worked in a lawyer's office until his first poem was published in 1934; by 1937 he had won...

• George Chisholm (musician)
• Maurice Vasset (astrologer)
• Rosetta Tharpe

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1973).

• Joe E Ross

  American actor and comedian (d. 1982).

• Kenneth Rowntree

  painter.

• Svyatoslav Richter

  Pianist.

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Famous Deaths

• Sergei J Witte Dutch count/premier of Russia

  dies at age 65.

• Walter Crane English painter/cartoonist/illustrator

  dies at age 69.

• Thomas Alexander Browne

  Australian writer (Born 1826).

• Frederick Winslow Taylor

  American inventor (Born 1856).

• Karol Olszewski

  Polish chemist mathematician and physicist (d. 1915).

• Wyndham Halswelle

  English runner and soldier (d. 1915).

• William Willett

  English inventor founded British Summer Time (d. 1915).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Prince's Orchestra - Syncopated Walk
2. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - On the 5:15
3. John Barnes Wells - A Little Bit of Heaven (Shure, They Call it Ireland)
4. Al Jolson - Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers
5. Olive Kline - When You're Away