November 1915 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1915 Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
• 06 Nov 1915 1st military flight in the Netherlands East Indies
• 07 Nov 1915 Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship
• 09 Nov 1915 Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedos, killing 272
• 12 Nov 1915 Britain annexes Gilbert and Ellice archipelago
• 14 Nov 1915 Thomas Masaryk demands independence for Czechoslovakia
• 18 Nov 1915 Release of the U.S. silent film ''Inspiration'', the first mainstream movie in which a leading actress (Audrey Munson) appears nude.
• 20 Nov 1915 7th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Rowing, 13-7
• 23 Nov 1915 The ''Triangle Film Corporation'' opens its new motion picture theater in Massillon, Ohio.
• 24 Nov 1915 Serbian leader flees to Albania
• 25 Nov 1915 The theory of general relativity is formulated.

Famous Birthday

• Augusto Pinochet

  Chilean dictator who took Allende out of Chile's presidency and installed himself for many years, one of the most cruel, ruthless,...

• Roland Barthes

  French writer and linguist, he wrote essays and literary criticism.

• René Margotton

  Roanne Painters.

• Yves Thériault
• Sargent Shriver

  American lieutenant lawyer and politician 21st United States Ambassador to France (d. 2011).

• André François

  Romanian-French illustrator painter and sculptor (d. 2005).

• Kon Ichikawa

  Japanese director producer and screenwriter (d. 2008).

• Giovanna Fontana

  Italian designer who founded a fashion house with her two sisters in 1946, couturiers to high society.

• Alfred Nakache

  Algerian-born French swimmer and water polo player.

• Billy Strayhorn

  American jazz musician, composer and arranger, pianist and lyricist.

• Bernard Charlan
• George Sutherland Fraser

  Scottish poet and academic (Born 1915).

• Marguerite Patten

  English economist and author (d. 2015).

• Ellen Drew
• Anita Lizana
• Brownie McGhee

  American blues guitarist, dies at age 81 (born 1915).

• Martha Tilton

  American singer and actress (d. 2006).

• Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro

  Politician.

• John Dehner [Forkum]

  Staten Island, New York -- Actor (Big Hawaii, Bare Essence).

• Alistair Cameron Crombie

  Historian of science.

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Famous Deaths

• Theodor Leschetizky

  Composer, dies at 85.

• Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba

  Composer, dies at 54.

• Solomon Schechter

  Theologist, dies at about 64.

• Mubarak Al-Sabah ''The Great''

  Emir of Kuwait (Born 1896).

• Booker T Washington

  educator/organizer, dies at age 59 in Tuskegee, Alabama.

• Joe Hill

  Labor leader / songwriter, executed for murder.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Cal Stewart & Byron G. Harlan - The Village Gossips
2. Conway's Band - Ragging the Scale
3. Sam Ash - Floating Down the Old Green River
4. Alma Gluck - The Fiddle and I
5. James F. Harrison & James Reed - My Sweet Adair