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The poor British performance in the early months of the war forced Asquith to invite the Conservatives into a coalition ( on 17 May 1915 ).
After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German submarine in May 1915, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, was visited by two officers of the Admiralty's Secret Service branch at the naval base at Queenstown, Ireland.
In May 1915, Clarke and MacDermott established a Military Committee within the IRB, consisting of Pearse, Plunkett and Ceannt, to draw up plans for a rising.
Francis Albert " Frank " Sinatra,, ( December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998 ) was an American singer and film actor.
Joseph Harold Greenberg ( May 28, 1915 – May 7, 2001 ) was a prominent American linguist, principally known for his work in two areas, linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.
Joseph Greenberg was born on May 28, 1915 to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York.
James Tiptree, Jr. ( August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987 ) was the pen name of American science fiction author Alice Bradley Sheldon, used from 1967 to her death.
The German Navy's U-boats were also instrumental in the sinking of the civilian passenger liner the Lusitania on 7 May 1915, which was one of the main events that led to the USA joining the war two years later in 1917.
During her years at Washington Seminary, Mitchell's brother, Stephens, was away studying at Harvard College ( 1915 – 1917 ), and he left in May 1917 to enlist in the army, about a month after the U. S. declared war on Germany.
In May 1915 while traveling to England on shipyard business, aboard the RMS Lusitania, Hopkins ' tenure and life ended prematurely when that ship was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat off Queenstown on the Irish coast.
While Italy declared war on Austria – Hungary on 23 May 1915, San Marino remained neutral.
Foreign powers came to recognize Yuan's power as well: when Japan came to China with 21 demands, it was Yuan that submitted to them, on 25 May 1915.
After the liner Lusitania was sunk in May 1915, drowning over 100 American passengers, protests by the United States led Germany to abandon unrestricted submarine warfare.
On 7 May 1915, sank the liner RMS Lusitania with a single torpedo hit, although it is debated whether a second explosion was due to flammable cargo or another torpedo.
* SM U-74, a Type UE 1 submarine launched in 1915 and that served in the First World War until sunk 17 May 1916
* On 7 May 1915, the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania is torpedoed by, a German U-boat, off the Old Head of Kinsale in Ireland and sinks in 18 minutes.
* May 9 – Alice Faye, American entertainer ( b. 1915 )
* May 31 – Billy Strayhorn, American composer and pianist ( b. 1915 )
* May 19 – James Tiptree, Jr, American author ( b. 1915 )
* May 30 – Wyndham Halswelle, British runner ( d. 1915 )
* May 4 – Junior Durkin, American actor ( b. 1915 )
* May 8 – Ross Barnes, U. S. baseball player ( d. 1915 )
William Hale Thompson ( May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944 ) was Mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931.
Robert himself published the first four editions before his death in 1923, the last being the thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition published as Robert's Rules of Order Revised in May 1915.
May and Major-General
Major-General Rossmann, the Army Weapons Office department chief, recommended stationing observers in the target area – c. May / June, Walter Dornberger and Wernher von Braun set up a camp at the centre of the Poland target zone.
Still on 27 May, Brooke ordered Major-General Montgomery to extend his 3rd Division's line to the left, thereby freeing 10th and 11th Brigades of 4th Division to join the 5th Division at Messines Ridge.
From the lawn of this house, in May 1781, General Lafayette — with cannon behind a boxwood hedge that still fringes the hill — shelled Petersburg, then occupied by British troops under Major-General William Phillips ( who died of typhoid during this bombardment ).
Major-General Erskine ( Ghana ), Chief of Staff of UNTSO reported to the Secretary-General and the Security Council ( S / 14789, S / 15194 ) that from August 1981 to May 1982, inclusive, there were 2096 violations of Lebanese airspace and 652 violations of Lebanese territorial waters.
Nevertheless, an early breakthrough seemed unlikely until on May 30 Major-General Fred Walker's 36th Division found a gap in the Caesar Line at the join between 1st Parachute Corps and LXXVI Panzer Corps.
He returned to France in May and, in June, he was promoted to Major-General and transferred to command the 33rd Division, then still in training.
Carleton was promoted to Major-General on 25 May 1772.
Following a state funeral at the Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica on March 8, 1967, the Major-General was buried at La Citadelle's commemorative chapel on May 5 of the same year.
From 1843 to 1845, he served as a colonel on the staff in the Ionian islands, then was promoted Major-General on 7 May 1845.
On 9 January 1970, General Odumegwu-Ojukwu handed over power to his second in command, Chief of General Staff Major-General Philip Effiong, and left for Côte d ' Ivoire, where President Felix Houphöet-Biogny – who had recognised Biafra on 14 May 1968 – granted him political asylum.
Not long afterwards, Major-General Fraser, commanding Indian 10th Infantry Division, fell ill and was relieved of his command and Slim promoted to take his place effective 15 May in the acting rank of major-general.
Major-General Sir Newton James Moore KCMG ( 17 May 1870 – 28 October 1936 ), was the eighth Premier of Western Australia and a member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1932.
On 24 May Major-General Beauvoir De Lisle took over command of the Division.
The official dedication ceremony for the unit took place on 1 May 1943 with thousands of civilian and military spectators, including Major-General Eldridge G. Chapman, overall commander of Airborne Command and of all American airborne forces during World War II.
From its arrival in France to May 1917, it was commanded by Major-General John Capper.
When Peter Hollingworth resigned in May 2003, Sir Guy Green, Governor of Tasmania, took on that role, serving until Major-General Michael Jeffery took office in August 2003.
They arrived at Penang on 18 May, and were joined on 21 May by the second division, led by Major-General Frederick Augustus Wetherall, which had left Calcutta on 21 April, escorted by a squadron under Captain Fleetwood Pellew, aboard the 38-gun.
* May 1914-Oct 1914 Major-General Hubert Hamilton
Elliott was born at Byfeld House, Church Road, Barnes, Surrey to Major-General Roger Elliott ( c. 1665 – 15 May 1714 ) and his wife Charlotte ( née Elliot, c. 1692-c. 1753 ).
Major-General Robert Craufurd ( 5 May 1764 – 23 January 1812 ) was a Scottish soldier and Member of Parliament ( MP ).
He was promoted to Major-General in May 1825.
Sutherland married Victoria Mary, daughter of Major-General Edward Williams, on 11 May 1974.
On 11 May the northernmost units of Cunningham's forces, under South African Brigadier Dan Pienaar linked with Platt's forces under Major-General Mosley Mayne to besiege Amba Alagi.
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