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Events from the year 1915 in the United States.
President Woodrow Wilson throws out the first pitch at the 1915 World Series.
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Sheffield Ingalls (Republican) (until January 11), William Yoast Morgan (Republican) (starting January 11)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Edward J. McDermott (Democratic) (until December 7), James D. Black (Democratic) (starting December 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Thomas C. Barret (Democratic)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Edward P. Barry (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Grafton D. Cushing (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: John Q. Ross (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Luren D. Dickinson (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Samuel R. McKelvie (Republican) (until month and day unknown), James Pearson (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Gilbert C. Ross (political party unknown) (until January 4), Maurice J. Sullivan (Democratic) (starting January 4)
Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico: Ezequiel Cabeza De Baca (Democratic)
Lieutenant Governor of New York: Edward Schoeneck (Republican) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Elijah L. Daughtridge (Democratic)
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: Anton T. Kraabel (Republican) (until month and day unknown), John H. Fraine (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: W. A. Greenlund (Democratic) (until January 11), John H. Arnold (Republican) (starting January 11)
Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: J. J. McAlester (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Martin E. Trapp (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: John M. Reynolds (Republican) (until January 19), Frank B. McClain (Republican) (starting January 19)
until January 14: Charles Aurelius Smith (Democratic)
January 14-January 19: vacant
starting January 19: Andrew Bethea (Democratic)
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: Edward Lincoln Abel (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Peter Norbeck (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee:
until month and day unknown: Newton H. White (Democratic)
month and day unknown: Hugh C. Anderson (Democratic)
starting month and day unknown: Albert E. Hill (Democratic)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Frank E. Howe (Republican) (until January 19), Hale K. Darling (Republican) (starting January 19)
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: James Taylor Ellyson (Democratic)
Lieutenant Governor of Washington: Louis Folwell Hart (Republican)
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Thomas Morris (Republican) (until January 4), Edward F. Dithmar (Republican) (starting January 4)
Events[]
January–March[]
Souvenir booklet for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
January – While working as a cook at New York's Sloan Hospital under an assumed name, Typhoid Mary infects 25 people, and is placed in quarantine for life.
January 12
The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
January 21 – Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
January 26 – Rocky Mountain National Park is established.
January 28 – An act of the U.S. Congress designates the United States Coast Guard, begun in 1790, as a military branch over 19 years.
February 2 – Vanceboro international bridge bombing
February 8 – The controversial film, The Birth of a Nation, directed by D. W. Griffith, premieres in Los Angeles.
February 12 – In Washington, D.C. the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
February 20 – In San Francisco, California the Panama-Pacific International Exposition is opened.
March 3 – NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
March 25 – The USS F-4 submarine sinks off Hawaii; 23 are killed.
March 28 – The first Roman CatholicLiturgy is celebrated by ArchbishopJohn Ireland at the newly consecrated Cathedral of Saint Paul in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
May 6 – Babe Ruth hits his first career home run off of Jack Warhop.
May 7 – The RMS Lusitania is sunk on passage from New York to Britain by a German U-boat, killing 1,198.
May 22 – Lassen Peak, one of the Cascade Volcanoes in Northern California, erupts, sending an ash plume 30,000 feet in the air and devastating the nearby area with pyroclastic flows and lahars. It is the only volcano to erupt in the contiguous United States between 1900 and the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
June 9 – U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the Lusitania sinking.
June 12 – "The class the stars fell on" graduates from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
June 21 – Guinn v. United States is decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, finding grandfather clause exemptions to literacy tests for voters to be unconstitutional.
June 22 – The Imperial Valley earthquakes shook southeastern Southern California, causing six deaths and financial losses of $900,000. Each shock in this doublet earthquake measured 5.5 Mw and had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe).
July–September[]
July 24 – The steamer Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, with the loss of 844 lives.
July 28 – The United States occupation of Haiti begins.
August 5–August 23 – Hurricane Two of the 1915 Atlantic hurricane season over Galveston and New Orleans leaves 275 dead.
August 17 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta.[1]
August 31 – Jimmy Lavender of the Chicago Cubs pitches a no hitter against the New York Giants.
September 11 – The Pennsylvania Railroad begins electrified commuter rail service between Paoli and Philadelphia, using overhead AC trolley wires for power. This type of system is later used in long-distance passenger trains between New York City, Washington, D.C., and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
October–December[]
October 2 – The 6.8 MwPleasant Valley earthquake shook north-central Nevada with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), causing limited damage and pronounced fault scarps along the base of the Tobin Range.
October 4 – Dinosaur National Monument is established.
October 19 – Mexican Revolution: The U.S. recognizes the Mexican government of Venustiano Carranzade facto (not de jure until 1917).
November 18 – Release of Inspiration, the first mainstream movie in which a leading actress (Audrey Munson) appears nude.
November 23 – The Triangle Film Corporation opens its new motion picture theater in Massillon, Ohio.
November 27 (Thanksgiving Night) – Second Ku Klux Klan established in Stone Mountain, Georgia by William Joseph Simmons.
Undated[]
Woodrow Wilson House (Washington, D.C.), built in 1915
Emory College is rechartered as Emory University, and plans to move its main campus from Oxford, Georgia to Atlanta.
The first stop sign appears in Detroit, Michigan.
Colonel Francis G. Ward Pumping Station in Buffalo, New York, the largest in the US at this time, begins operation.