1915

1915

D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation premieres.

U.S. House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the vote.

Typhoid Mary isolated.

First stop sign in the United States: Detroit, MI.

The cities of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in England are bombed by German zeppelins.

Armenian Genocide! Unless you're Turkish, in which case you believe this is a year absolutely nothing of consequence happened.

Theory of Pangea proposed.

Astronomers decide Pluto is a planet.

born: Muddy Waters, Billie Holliday, Orson Welles, Ingrid Bergman, Bob Kane, Frank Sinatra

died: William Willett, inventor of daylight savings time

Claude Debussy - Sonata pour flute