May 1915 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1915 British Lusitania leaves New York, for Liverpool.
• 02 May 1915 Old Fordham Road in the Bronx renamed Landing Road.
• 03 May 1915 The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
• 04 May 1915 Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb and Germany.
• 05 May 1915 German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom.
• 06 May 1915 Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont.
• 07 May 1915 World War I: German submarine SM 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.
• 08 May 1915 41st Kentucky Derby: Joe Notter aboard Regret wins in 2:05.4.
• 09 May 1915 World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
• 10 May 1915 Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea.
• 12 May 1915 Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250.
• 15 May 1915 AT&T becomes 1st corporation to have 1 million stockholders
• 17 May 1915 Last liberal British Government of Asquith falls.
• 20 May 1915 Bataafsche Petroleum Me begins oil extraction of Maracaibo
• 22 May 1915 Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland).
• 23 May 1915 World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
• 24 May 1915 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations.
• 25 May 1915 Chicago Claude Hendrix no-hits Pittsburgh (Federal League), 10-0.
• 26 May 1915 H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England.
• 28 May 1915 John B Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll.
• 29 May 1915 Teófilo Braga becomes president of Portugal.
• 31 May 1915 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London.

Famous Birthday

• Orson Welles

  American actor, director, producer and writer who presented his sensational drama, "War Of The Worlds," by radio on 10/31/1938.

• Achille Zavatta

  Tunisia-born French clown (Born 1915).

• Frère Roger
• Moshe Dayan

  Israeli general and politician 5th Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1981).

• Karl Münchinger

  German conductor of European classical music.

• Alice Faye

  American actress and singer (d. 1998).

• Mario Monicelli

  Italian film director and screenwriter who had a modest debut as a co-director of a series of minor comedies.

• Jean Cazeneuve

  French philosopher and anthropologist.

• Dino Viola
• Albert Lenormand

  La Roche-Vineuse Painters.

• Hanns-Martin Schleyer

  German industrialist, a terrorism victim, abducted, held in captivity 43 days, later murdered by RAF terrorists on 18 October 1977.

• Theodore H White

  American journalist (Making of President, Pulitzer), dies at age 71 (born 1958).

• Mario Nardone

  Italian police commissioner.

• Van Alexander
• John Archer (actor)
• Hedley Mattingly
• Denis Thatcher

  English soldier and businessman Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2003).

• Ascel Bromstrom

  Swedish industrialist, a multi-millionaire ship builder and owner.

• Richard Lippold

  American sculptor, known for his geometric constructions using wire as a medium.

• Wolfgang Schneiderhan

  violinist.

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Famous Deaths

• Alfred G Vanderbilt

  US millionaire, dies aboard Lusitania.

• Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr

  US Lusitania officer.

• Albert Weisgerber

  German Painter / graphic artist, dies in battle.

• Henry McNeal Turner 1 US black army chaplain

  dies at age 82.

• Francois Faber

  Luxembourgish cyclist (Born 1887).

• John Simpson Kirkpatrick

  stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I (Born 1892).

• Private John Condon

  English World War I soldier (Born 1896).

• Leonid Gobyato

  Russian general (Born 1875).

• Charles Frohman

  Dies aboard Lusitania.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Grace Kerns - The Song of Songs
2. Venetian Trio - Love's Dream After the Ball
3. Henry Burr - There's a Little Spark of Love Still Burning
4. Margaret Woodrow Wilson - The Star-Spangled Banner
5. Prince's Orchestra - I Want to Go to Tokio