What Happened In August 1915 In History

Historical Events for August, 1915

• 4th » World War I: The 12th Army (German Empire) or German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat (Russian) or Great Retreat of 1915.
• 6th » World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies of World War I named Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla known as Suvla Bay.
• 15th » A story in 'New York World' newspaper reveals that the German Empire known as Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and Great Phenol Plot called diverted it to Ba
• 17th » American Jews or Jewish American Leo Frank is lynching known as lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia, United States.
• 17th » A 1915 Galveston hurricane Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at convert 135 mph km/h.
• 29th » US Navy salvage divers raise USS F-4 SS-23 2, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1915

• 2nd » Gary Merrill, American actor (d. 1990)
• 3rd » Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (d. 2006)
• 3rd » Pete Newell, American basketball player and coach (d. 2008)
• 4th » Warren Avis, American businessman, founded Avis Rent a Car System (d. 2007)
• 8th » Jumbo Elliott (coach) named James Elliott, American runner and coach (d. 1981)
• 11th » Morris Weiss, American author and illustrator (d. 2014)
• 12th » Sickan Carlsson, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2011)
• 12th » Michael Kidd, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2007)
• 14th » B. A. Santamaria, Australian journalist and activist (d. 1998)
• 16th » Al Hibbler, American singer (d. 2001)
• 18th » Max Lanier, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
• 19th » Ring Lardner, Jr., American journalist and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 19th » Alfred Rouleau, Canadian businessman (d. 1985)
• 21st » Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (d. 1998)
• 22nd » David Dellinger, American activist (d. 2004)
• 22nd » James Hillier, Canadian-American scientist, co-designed the electron microscope (d. 2007)
• 22nd » Hugh Paddick, English actor (d. 2000)
• 22nd » Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and politician, 15th Polish government-in-exile named Prime Minister of the Polish Republic in Exile (d. 2005)
• 24th » James Tiptree, Jr., American author (d. 1987)
• 25th » Walter Trampler, American viola player and educator (d. 1997)
• 27th » Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
• 28th » Max Robertson, Bangladeshi-English sportscaster (d. 2009)
• 28th » Tasha Tudor, American author and illustrator (d. 2008)
• 29th » Ingrid Bergman, Swedish-English actress and singer (d. 1982)
• 29th » Endel Laas, Estonian scientist and academic (d. 2009)
• 29th » Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist and author (d. 1985)

Famous Deaths for August 1915

• 10th » Henry Moseley, English physicist and engineer (b. 1887)
• 20th » Paul Ehrlich, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine e.g Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)

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