Page 15: Historical Events In 1915

Sep 30   Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit   

Oct 02   Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise, musician   

Oct 02   Russell Alexander, composer, dies at 38   

Oct 03   7.8 earthquake shakes Pleasant Valley Nevada   

Oct 04   Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah is established   

Oct 04   Koos Schuur, Dutch journalist/poet (7 Curses)   

Oct 05   Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers   

Oct 05   Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer, dies at 28   

Oct 06   Edgardo Martin, composer.   

Oct 07   Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record).   

Oct 07   Margarita J Aliger, Russian poet (Zoja) [NS].   

Oct 07   Samuel Prowse Warren, composer, dies at 74.   

Oct 08   Battle of Loos, almost 430000 French, British and Germans killed.   

Oct 09   Belgrade Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders.   

Oct 09   Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture   

Oct 09   Constant A M Cap, Flemish poet/etcher, dies at 73   

Oct 09   Woodrow Wilson is recorded as becoming 1st pres to attend a world series game (World Series #12)   

Oct 11   Bulgarian anti Serbian offensive begins   

Oct 12   Edith L Cavell, British nurse, executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II).   

Oct 12   English nurse Edith Cavell executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II).   

Oct 12   Ford Motor Company manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile.   

Oct 12   Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citzens with dual nationalities.   

Oct 13   Boston Red Sox beat Phila Phillies, 4 games to 1 in 12th World Series.   

Oct 13   Cornel Wilde, NYC, actor (High Sierra, 5th Musketeer).   

Oct 15   W Weyrauch, writer   

Oct 16   Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria   

Oct 17   Arthur Miller, NYC, playwright (Death of a Salesman, Crucible)   

Oct 18   3rd Italians offensive at Isonzo   

Oct 18   Victor Sen Yung, SF Calif, actor (Hop Sing-Bonanza, Bachelor Family).   

Oct 19   Russia/Italy declares war on Bulgaria.   

Oct 20   Giora Schuster, composer   

Oct 21   1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris   

Oct 21   inaugural transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris   

Oct 21   Vera Deakin, daughter of former Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, establishes the Australian Red Cross Missing and Wounded Enquiry Bureau in Cairo, Egypt During the remainder of the war the bureau handled thousands of enquiries from Australian families seeking information about wounded and missing soldiers   

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Jan 01   Francois bondy: Writer   

Jan 01   Lewis bingham keeble: Town planner   

Jan 02   John hope franklin: Historian   

Jan 05   Mabel leigh: Potter   

Jan 05   Uta graf: Singer/teacher   

Jan 05   Arthur h. robinson: Canadian-born cartographer   

Jan 06   Alan watts: Kent england, writer (book on the taboo)   

Jan 06   Don edwards: (rep-d-ca, 1963- )   

Jan 02   Karl goldmark: Austria-hungarian composer (queen of saba),   

Jan 03   James e flecker: British diplomat/novelist (hassan),   

Jan 06   Reginald wood: Cricketer (one test england v australia 1886),   

Jan 13   Mary slessor: Scottish missionary (b. 1848)   

Jan 14   Richard meux benson: Founder of anglican religious order (b. 1824)   

Jan 15   Guillaume couture: Composer,   

Jan 28   Nikolay umov: Russian physicist (b. 1846)   

Feb 05   Ross barnes: Baseball player (b. 1850)