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  • U.S.
    1915
    The Wright brothers

    Orville sold the company

    U.S.
    1915

    Orville succeeded to the presidency of the Wright Company upon Wilbur's death. Sharing Wilbur's distaste for business but not his brother's executive skills, Orville sold the company in 1915.




  • U.S.
    1915
    Memorial day

    In Flanders Fields

    U.S.
    1915

    In 1915, following the Second Battle of Ypres, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a physician with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, wrote the poem, "In Flanders Fields". Its opening lines refer to the fields of poppies that grew among the soldiers' graves in Flanders.




  • U.S.
    1915
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower graduated in the middle of the class

    U.S.
    1915

    Eisenhower later served as junior varsity football coach and cheerleader. He graduated in the middle of the class of 1915, which became known as "the class the stars fell on" because 59 members eventually became general officers.




  • U.S.
    Thursday Jan 28, 1915
    Carter G. Woodson

    Woodson wrote a letter to Grimké

    U.S.
    Thursday Jan 28, 1915

    Woodson became affiliated with the Washington, D.C. branch of the NAACP, and its chairman Archibald Grimké. On January 28, 1915, Woodson wrote a letter to Grimké expressing his dissatisfaction with activities and making two proposals: -That the branch secure an office for a center to which persons may report whatever concerns the black race may have, and from which the Association may extend its operations into every part of the city; and -That a canvasser be appointed to enlist members and obtain subscriptions for The Crisis, the NAACP magazine edited by W. E. B. Du Bois. Du Bois added the proposal to divert "patronage from business establishments which do not treat races alike," that is, boycott businesses. Woodson wrote that he would cooperate as one of the twenty-five effective canvassers, adding that he would pay the office rent for one month. Grimké did not welcome Woodson's ideas.




  • U.S.
    Monday Feb 8, 1915
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    The Birth of a Nation

    U.S.
    Monday Feb 8, 1915

    Du Bois used his influential role in the NAACP to oppose a variety of racist incidents. When the silent film The Birth of a Nation premiered in 1915, Du Bois and the NAACP led the fight to ban the movie, because of its racist portrayal of blacks as brutish and lustful.




  • U.S
    1915
    League of Nations

    Creation of international bodies with administrative and legislative powers

    U.S
    1915

    In January 1915, a peace conference directed by Jane Addams was held in the neutral United States. The delegates adopted a platform calling for creation of international bodies with administrative and legislative powers to develop a "permanent league of neutral nations" to work for peace and disarmament.




  • U.S
    1915
    League of Nations

    Setting up of League to Enforce Peace

    U.S
    1915

    In 1915, a similar body to the Bryce group was set up in the United States led by former president William Howard Taft. It was called the League to Enforce Peace.


  • U.S.
    1915
    Father's Day

    Harry claimed that he had first come up with the idea for Father's Day

    U.S.
    1915

    Harry C. Meek, a member of Lions Clubs International, claimed that he had first come up with the idea for Father's Day in 1915. Meek said that the third Sunday in June was chosen because it was his birthday. The Lions Club has named him the "Originator of Father's Day". Meek made many efforts to promote Father's Day and make it an official holiday.


  • U.S.
    Thursday Mar 18, 1915
    Carter G. Woodson

    Woodson wrote to Grimké's comments about his proposals

    U.S.
    Thursday Mar 18, 1915

    Responding to Grimké's comments about his proposals, on March 18, 1915, Woodson wrote: I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit. It would do the cause much good. Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me. His difference of opinion with Grimké, who wanted a more conservative course, contributed to Woodson's ending his affiliation with the NAACP.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Jun, 1915
    Armenian Genocide

    Americans spoke out against the genocide

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Jun, 1915

    Many Americans spoke out against the genocide, including former president Theodore Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen Wise, Alice Stone Blackwell, and William Jennings Bryan, the U.S. Secretary of State to June 1915.


  • Texas and Georgia, U.S.
    1915
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower served initially in logistics and then the infantry at various camps

    Texas and Georgia, U.S.
    1915

    After graduation in 1915, Second Lieutenant Eisenhower requested an assignment in the Philippines, which was denied. He served initially in logistics and then the infantry at various camps in Texas and Georgia until 1918.


  • New York, U.S.
    Saturday Jun 26, 1915
    Willis Carrier

    Carrier Engineering Corporation

    New York, U.S.
    Saturday Jun 26, 1915

    With the onset of World War I in late 1914, the Buffalo Forge Company, where Carrier had been employed for 12 years, decided to confine its activities entirely to manufacturing. The result was that seven young engineers pooled together their life savings of $32,600 to form the Carrier Engineering Corporation in New York on June 26, 1915.


  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    1915
    Nikola Tesla

    Office space at 8 West 40th Street

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    1915

    Tesla moved to office space at 8 West 40th Street from 1915 to 1925.


  • U.S.
    Friday Jul 16, 1915
    Armenian Genocide

    Morgenthau memoirs

    U.S.
    Friday Jul 16, 1915

    As the orders for deportations and massacres were enacted, many consular officials reported what they were witnessing to Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Sr., who described the massacres as a "campaign of race extermination" in a telegram sent to the United States Department of State on 16 July 1915. In memoirs that he completed during 1918.


  • New York, U.S.
    Aug, 1915
    Armenian Genocide

    An Unattributed report

    New York, U.S.
    Aug, 1915

    By August 1915, The New York Times repeated an unattributed report that "the roads and the Euphrates are strewn with corpses of exiles, and those who survive are doomed to certain death. It is a plan to exterminate the whole Armenian people".


  • Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    Thursday Sep 9, 1915
    Carter G. Woodson

    Woodson founded the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

    Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    Thursday Sep 9, 1915

    Along with William D. Hartgrove, George Cleveland Hall, Alexander L. Jackson, and James E. Stamps, Woodson founded the Association for the Study of African American Life and History on September 9, 1915, in Chicago.


  • New York, U.S.
    1915
    IBM

    THINK

    New York, U.S.
    1915

    In 1915, Watson was made President when court cases relating to his time at NCR were resolved. Having learned Patterson's pioneering business practices, Watson proceeded to put the stamp of NCR onto CTR's companies. His favorite slogan, "THINK", became a mantra for each company's employees.


  • Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.
    Sunday Dec 12, 1915
    Frank Sinatra

    Birth

    Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.
    Sunday Dec 12, 1915

    Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915, in an upstairs tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey, the only child of Italian immigrants Natalina "Dolly" Garaventa and Antonino Martino "Marty" Sinatra.


  • U.S.
    1915
    The Wright brothers

    Orville sold the company

    U.S.
    1915

    Orville succeeded to the presidency of the Wright Company upon Wilbur's death. Sharing Wilbur's distaste for business but not his brother's executive skills, Orville sold the company in 1915.


  • U.S.
    1915
    Memorial day

    In Flanders Fields

    U.S.
    1915

    In 1915, following the Second Battle of Ypres, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a physician with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, wrote the poem, "In Flanders Fields". Its opening lines refer to the fields of poppies that grew among the soldiers' graves in Flanders.


  • U.S.
    1915
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower graduated in the middle of the class

    U.S.
    1915

    Eisenhower later served as junior varsity football coach and cheerleader. He graduated in the middle of the class of 1915, which became known as "the class the stars fell on" because 59 members eventually became general officers.


  • U.S.
    Thursday Jan 28, 1915
    Carter G. Woodson

    Woodson wrote a letter to Grimké

    U.S.
    Thursday Jan 28, 1915

    Woodson became affiliated with the Washington, D.C. branch of the NAACP, and its chairman Archibald Grimké. On January 28, 1915, Woodson wrote a letter to Grimké expressing his dissatisfaction with activities and making two proposals: -That the branch secure an office for a center to which persons may report whatever concerns the black race may have, and from which the Association may extend its operations into every part of the city; and -That a canvasser be appointed to enlist members and obtain subscriptions for The Crisis, the NAACP magazine edited by W. E. B. Du Bois. Du Bois added the proposal to divert "patronage from business establishments which do not treat races alike," that is, boycott businesses. Woodson wrote that he would cooperate as one of the twenty-five effective canvassers, adding that he would pay the office rent for one month. Grimké did not welcome Woodson's ideas.


  • U.S.
    Monday Feb 8, 1915
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    The Birth of a Nation

    U.S.
    Monday Feb 8, 1915

    Du Bois used his influential role in the NAACP to oppose a variety of racist incidents. When the silent film The Birth of a Nation premiered in 1915, Du Bois and the NAACP led the fight to ban the movie, because of its racist portrayal of blacks as brutish and lustful.


  • U.S
    1915
    League of Nations

    Creation of international bodies with administrative and legislative powers

    U.S
    1915

    In January 1915, a peace conference directed by Jane Addams was held in the neutral United States. The delegates adopted a platform calling for creation of international bodies with administrative and legislative powers to develop a "permanent league of neutral nations" to work for peace and disarmament.


  • U.S
    1915
    League of Nations

    Setting up of League to Enforce Peace

    U.S
    1915

    In 1915, a similar body to the Bryce group was set up in the United States led by former president William Howard Taft. It was called the League to Enforce Peace.


  • U.S.
    1915
    Father's Day

    Harry claimed that he had first come up with the idea for Father's Day

    U.S.
    1915

    Harry C. Meek, a member of Lions Clubs International, claimed that he had first come up with the idea for Father's Day in 1915. Meek said that the third Sunday in June was chosen because it was his birthday. The Lions Club has named him the "Originator of Father's Day". Meek made many efforts to promote Father's Day and make it an official holiday.


  • U.S.
    Thursday Mar 18, 1915
    Carter G. Woodson

    Woodson wrote to Grimké's comments about his proposals

    U.S.
    Thursday Mar 18, 1915

    Responding to Grimké's comments about his proposals, on March 18, 1915, Woodson wrote: I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit. It would do the cause much good. Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me. His difference of opinion with Grimké, who wanted a more conservative course, contributed to Woodson's ending his affiliation with the NAACP.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Jun, 1915
    Armenian Genocide

    Americans spoke out against the genocide

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Jun, 1915

    Many Americans spoke out against the genocide, including former president Theodore Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen Wise, Alice Stone Blackwell, and William Jennings Bryan, the U.S. Secretary of State to June 1915.


  • Texas and Georgia, U.S.
    1915
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower served initially in logistics and then the infantry at various camps

    Texas and Georgia, U.S.
    1915

    After graduation in 1915, Second Lieutenant Eisenhower requested an assignment in the Philippines, which was denied. He served initially in logistics and then the infantry at various camps in Texas and Georgia until 1918.


  • New York, U.S.
    Saturday Jun 26, 1915
    Willis Carrier

    Carrier Engineering Corporation

    New York, U.S.
    Saturday Jun 26, 1915

    With the onset of World War I in late 1914, the Buffalo Forge Company, where Carrier had been employed for 12 years, decided to confine its activities entirely to manufacturing. The result was that seven young engineers pooled together their life savings of $32,600 to form the Carrier Engineering Corporation in New York on June 26, 1915.


  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    1915
    Nikola Tesla

    Office space at 8 West 40th Street

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    1915

    Tesla moved to office space at 8 West 40th Street from 1915 to 1925.


  • U.S.
    Friday Jul 16, 1915
    Armenian Genocide

    Morgenthau memoirs

    U.S.
    Friday Jul 16, 1915

    As the orders for deportations and massacres were enacted, many consular officials reported what they were witnessing to Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Sr., who described the massacres as a "campaign of race extermination" in a telegram sent to the United States Department of State on 16 July 1915. In memoirs that he completed during 1918.


  • New York, U.S.
    Aug, 1915
    Armenian Genocide

    An Unattributed report

    New York, U.S.
    Aug, 1915

    By August 1915, The New York Times repeated an unattributed report that "the roads and the Euphrates are strewn with corpses of exiles, and those who survive are doomed to certain death. It is a plan to exterminate the whole Armenian people".


  • Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    Thursday Sep 9, 1915
    Carter G. Woodson

    Woodson founded the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

    Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    Thursday Sep 9, 1915

    Along with William D. Hartgrove, George Cleveland Hall, Alexander L. Jackson, and James E. Stamps, Woodson founded the Association for the Study of African American Life and History on September 9, 1915, in Chicago.


  • New York, U.S.
    1915
    IBM

    THINK

    New York, U.S.
    1915

    In 1915, Watson was made President when court cases relating to his time at NCR were resolved. Having learned Patterson's pioneering business practices, Watson proceeded to put the stamp of NCR onto CTR's companies. His favorite slogan, "THINK", became a mantra for each company's employees.


  • Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.
    Sunday Dec 12, 1915
    Frank Sinatra

    Birth

    Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.
    Sunday Dec 12, 1915

    Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915, in an upstairs tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey, the only child of Italian immigrants Natalina "Dolly" Garaventa and Antonino Martino "Marty" Sinatra.


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