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.

It was really a May and December combination.

That spring Welcome To Our City was selected for production by the 47 Workshop and it was staged in the middle of May.

Washington evidently was anxious for Morgan to be cautious as well as aggressive, for on May 17th, 18th and 20th he admonished the leader of the riflemen-rangers to be on the alert.

He has been in prison since May, 1958, when his aircraft was shot down over Moluccas.

Du Pont's counterproposal was filed on May 14, 1958.

On May 11,330, A.D.,, its name was changed again, this time to Constantinople after its emperor, Constantine.

But what the elements could not do was seriously threatened when Brigadier General William E. ( Grumble ) Jones reached Philippi while on the famous Jones-Imboden raid in May, 1863.

The 10.3-cm observation of Sloanaker was made on May 20, 1958, using the 84-foot reflector at the Maryland Point Observatory of the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory.

From March 3 to May 1, 1949, the patient was maintained on dexamethasone, 3 to 6 mg. daily.

King Muhammad 5, was known to be most sympathetic to the formation of local self-government and made the first firm promise of elections on May Day, 1957.

They figured prominently in the Balafrej government of May, 1958, which the King was reportedly determined to keep in office until elections could be held.

These must have been for local calls strictly, as in May 1900 the `` only long distance telephone '' in town was transferred from C. B. Carleton's to Young's shoe store.

This was nearly completed May 23, 1901 with a promise of lights by June 10, but the first light did not go on until September 28.

The grant, which stretched southward to Lake Traverse -- the headwaters of the Red -- was made in May, 1811, and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson Bay.

Perhaps it was Dora May.

The '49 team was off to a so-so 5-5 beginning, then fell as low as 12-17 on May 23 before finishing with 96 victories.

It was in the midst of such White House deliberations that Premier Khrushchev on May 4 made new inquiries through the U. S. Embassy in Moscow about a meeting with the President in the near future.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

In May 1859, Lincoln purchased the Illinois Staats-Anzeiger, a German-language newspaper which was consistently supportive ; most of the state's 130, 000 German Americans voted Democratic but there was Republican support that a German-language paper could mobilize.

On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

Hooker was routed by Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May, but continued to command his troops for some weeks.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.