* 1915 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia, United States.

Captain Bernard Montgomery DSO with a fellow officer of 104th Brigade ( United Kingdom ) | 104th Brigade, 35th Division ( United Kingdom ) | 35th Division, with which he served from January 1915 until early 1917

At that time, Anton Dilger lived in Germany, but in 1915 he was sent to the United States carrying cultures of glanders, a virulent disease of horses and mules.

They reached the 1915 FA Cup Final, where they lost to Sheffield United at Old Trafford, and finished 3rd in the First Division in 1920, the club's best league campaign to that point.

On one side were Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria ( the Central Powers / Triple Alliance ), while on the other side stood Serbia and the Triple Entente – the loose coalition of France, Britain and Russia, which were joined by Italy in 1915, Romania in 1916 and by the United States in 1917.

The United States Revenue Cutter Service, which merged with the United States Lifesaving Service in January 1915 to form the modern Coast Guard, began following the Navy's lead in the 1890s, with its cutters having parenthetical numbers called Naval Registry Identification Numbers following their names, such as ( Cutter No. 1 ), etc.

* 1915 – An act of the U. S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.

* 1915 – The U. S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.

* 1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States ' handling of the sinking of the.

* 1830 – Frederick W. Seward, American lawyer, writer, and politician, 6th and 11th United States Assistant Secretary of State ( d. 1915 )

* 1915 – World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.

* 1915 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.

Category: 1915 establishments in the United States

The United States would, at least until 1915, take sides with the ruling Americo-Liberians in these struggles ( see Relations between the U. S. and Liberia ); European powers would, in the 19th century, stir up internal unrest in Liberia ( see military threats ).

The United States had a long history of intervening in Liberia's internal affairs, occasionally sending naval vessels to help the Americo-Liberian ( freed slave ) ruling minority put down insurrections by indigenous tribes ( in 1821, 1843, 1876, 1910, and 1915 ).

In the United States of Europe Slogan ( 1915 ), Lenin said:

The end came with a federal court decision in United States v. Motion Picture Patents Co. on October 1, 1915, which ruled that the MPPC's acts went " far beyond what was necessary to protect the use of patents or the monopoly which went with them " and was therefore an illegal restraint of trade under the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Mosques first appeared in the United States in the early 20th century, the likely first being one in Maine built by Albanian immigrants in 1915. as more immigrants continue to arrive in the country, especially from South Asia, the number of American mosques is increasing faster than ever before.

* 1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.

Sanger's ally Upton Sinclair wrote an open letter of support for Sanger and her husband in The Masses and during her absence, a groundswell of support grew in the United States, and Margaret returned to the United States in October 1915.

In 1915 Gardner again joined a local volunteer militia, the Malay States Volunteer Rifles.

Some countries in northwestern Europe had more liberal policies towards contraception than the United States at the time, and when Sanger visited a Dutch birth control clinic in 1915, she learned about diaphragms and became convinced that they were a more effective means of contraception than the suppositories and douches that she had been distributing back in the United States.

* 1915 – Clifford M. Hardin, 17th United States Secretary of Agriculture ( d. 2010 )

But it was not until 1915 that, responding to the needs of the military during World War I, they produced their first pistol, the model 1915.

* Spencer Cone Jones ( 1836 – 1915 ), the President of the Maryland State Senate, Mayor of Rockville, Maryland

The characterization is epitomized by an observation made by President Ramón Barros Luco ( 1910 – 1915 ), reputedly made in reference to labor unrest: " There are only two kinds of problems: those that solve themselves and those that can't be solved.

The title was briefly revived from 12 December 1915 to 22 March 1916 by President Yuan Shikai and again in early July 1917 when General Zhang Xun attempted to restore last Qing emperor Puyi to the throne.

* 1830 – Porfirio Díaz, Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico ( d. 1915 )

Solomon Schechter ( Hebrew: שניאור זלמן שכטר ; December 7, 1847 – November, 19 1915 ) was a Moldavian-born Romanian rabbi, academic scholar, and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of the American Conservative Jewish movement.

He served in the Senate from 1915 until his inauguration as President in 1921, making him the first sitting senator to be elected President of the United States ; John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama followed in this pattern.

* December 28 – Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, second wife of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson, was First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921.

* September 15 – Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico ( d. 1915 )

* July 30 – Mario Echandi Jiménez, 47th President of Costa Rica ( b. 1915 )

President Woodrow Wilson had refused to recognise the Mexican Revolutionary governments in 1913 and Japan's 21 Demands upon China in 1915.

Rice became Electric Boat's first President, remaining there from that time until 1915 when he stepped down just prior to his death on 2 November 1915.

In June 1915 Governor James E. Ferguson asked President Woodrow Wilson to station troops in the Big Bend.

* 1915 Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr. and his wife Rebekah Baines Johnson, parents of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, move into their home in Johnson City with their five children, Lucia, Sam Houston.

He was elected to the US Senate first by the Kansas Legislature ( in 1906 ), and then by popular vote ( in 1914, 1920 and 1926 ), serving one six-year term from 1907 to 1913, and then most of three terms from 1915 to 1929 ( when he became Vice President ).

He then served as United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson between 1915 and 1920.

Westminster is the birthplace of Sargent Shriver ( 1915 – 2011 ), former candidate for Vice President of the United States and brother-in-law of John F. Kennedy.

* Robert J. Morris ( 1915 – 97 ), renowned crusader against Communists, US Senate candidate, President of the University of Dallas, founder of the University of Plano, founder of the Defenders of American Liberties and lecturer.

* William E. Ozzard ( 1915 – 2002 ), President of the New Jersey Senate and the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.

In 1915, Youngstown industrialist Joseph G. Butler, Jr., a childhood friend of President McKinley, campaigned for the construction of the Ethan and Drama Memorial in downtown Niles.

* Richard Gary Colbert ( February 12, 1915 – December 2, 1973 )-four-star admiral in the United States Navy and former President of the Naval War College.

He was President of the Confederation five times, in 1915, 1920, 1927, 1932 and 1937.