What Happened In January 1915 In History

Historical Events for January, 1915

• 12th » The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of United States Congress called U.S. Congress.
• 12th » The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the suffrage e.g right to vote.
• 13th » An 1915 Avezzano earthquake e.g earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
• 19th » Georges Claude patents the neon Neon lighting known as discharge tube for use in advertising.
• 21st » Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
• 22nd » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train Guadalajara train disaster known as plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
• 25th » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas A. Watson or Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
• 26th » The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
• 28th » An act of the Congress of the United States called U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
• 31st » World War I: German Empire Germany is the first to make large-scale use of Chemical weapons in World War I poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russian Empire Russia.

Famous Birthdays on January in 1915

• 3rd » Jack Levine, American painter (d. 2010)
• 3rd » Mady Rahl, German actress (d. 2009)
• 4th » Meg Mundy, English-American actress
• 5th » Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian cartographer (d. 2004)
• 6th » Don Edwards, American soldier, lawyer, and politician
• 6th » John C. Lilly, American psychoanalyst (d. 2001)
• 6th » Alan Watts, English-American philosopher (d. 1973)
• 8th » Walker Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1991)
• 9th » Fernando Lamas, Argentinian actor (d. 1982)
• 9th » Anita Louise, American actress (d. 1970)
• 10th » Dean Dixon, American conductor (d. 1976)
• 10th » Cynthia Freeman, American author (d. 1988)
• 11th » Paddy Mayne, Irish soldier (d. 1955)
• 12th » Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1997)
• 12th » Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, Canadian archbishop (d. 2013)
• 14th » Mark Goodson, American game show producer, created 'Family Feud' and 'The Price Is Right (U.S. game show) called The Price Is Right' (d. 1992)
• 16th » Leslie H. Martinson, American director
• 20th » Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Pakistani politician, 7th President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
• 22nd » Heinrich Albertz, German theologian and politician, List of mayors of Berlin e.g Mayor of Berlin (d. 1993)
• 23rd » Arthur Lewis (economist) or Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian economist, Nobel Prize in Economics known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
• 23rd » Potter Stewart, American judge (d. 1985)
• 24th » Robert Motherwell, American painter (d. 1991)
• 25th » Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 1989)
• 26th » William Hopper, American actor (d. 1970)
• 27th » Jules Archer, American historian and author (d. 2008)
• 27th » Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 1985)
• 28th » Nien Cheng, Chinese-American author (d. 2009)
• 29th » Bill Peet, American illustrator (d.2002)
• 29th » John Serry, Sr., American accordion player and composer (d. 2003)
• 30th » Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976)
• 30th » John Profumo, English politician (d. 2006)
• 31st » Alan Lomax, American historian, author, and scholar (d. 2002)
• 31st » Thomas Merton, American monk and author (d. 1968)
• 31st » Garry Moore, American comedian and game show host (d. 1993)

Famous Deaths for January 1915

• 2nd » Karl Goldmark, Hungarian composer (b. 1830)
• 3rd » James Elroy Flecker, English poet, author, and playwright (b. 1884)
• 13th » Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
• 14th » Richard Meux Benson, English priest, founded the Society of St. John the Evangelist (b. 1824)
• 19th » Thomas Herbst (painter) known as Thomas Herbst, German painter (b. 1848)
• 28th » Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846)

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