HISTORICAL DATA-1915:









 

  •  JANUARY

  •  FEBRUARY

  •  MARCH

  •  APRIL:    In Albany, New York Governor Charles S. Whitman, a Republican, signs legislation on Apil 7 of this year which establishes a Board of Child Welfare for New York City; this law will take effect on July 1, 1915, provided that New York's Mayor will appoint the Board members no later than 60 days after that date.  (SOURCE:  Report of Work of the Board of Child Welfare of the City of New York For the Twelve Months Ending August 6, 1916 in the Legal Aid Review Volume XIV, Number 4, October 1916-digitized at: https://books.google.com/books?id=o3pBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=Harry+Hopkins+and+Board+of+Child+Welfare&source=bl&ots=Bs_jtQR8lX&sig=ZcIiYP7I0QjPQ_uYzd3CcctJi2I&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjc1IOH1dvSAhVHi1QKHVJbDg4Q6AEIRjAJ#v=onepage&q=Harry%20Hopkins%20and%20Board%20of%20Child%20Welfare&f=false  retrieved 3/16/2017-GD). 

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  • APRIL:    In France on April 22 of this year the Germans make the first use of poison gas in the current war. They "shock Allied soldiers along the wesern front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, B elgium."  (SOURCE:  April 22 page, This day in History website, at:  http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-introduce-poison-gas  accessed 2/3/2016-GD)

  •  MAY:    At some time during this month, when Italy joins the Allies in the current war against Germany and its associated nations, the Italian government, at the secret Treaty of London negotiations,  insists that the Allies should keep the Pope's representatives from taking any part in the arrangements for peace, or in the settlement of problems connected with the war. Other nations also harbor suspicions of the Pope's intentions at the conclusion of the war. (SOURCE:  Hitler's Pope The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell Penguin Books 2000 ((paperback)), pg. 60).

  • MAY:    At some time during this month the British War Cabinet is shuffled around because of the enlarging disaster of the Dardenelles campaign at Gallipoli. Winston Churchill is forced to resign as First Lord of the Admiralty; he is replaced by Arthur Balfour.  (SOURCE:  The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes ((paperrback)), page 89).

  • MAY:    At some time during this month in New York City, New York the Long Island Railroad company makes an offer to the city that it lease the company's Whitestone [Queens] branch line for ten years at an annual rental of $250,000.00 (1932 dollars=$5,844,529.70 in 2015$, per US Inflation Calculator at: http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/). (SOURCE of report: Feature, "Chronology of Whitestone Abandonment Proceedings; First Action Taken In 1915"--no author given--in The Daily Star, Long Island City [NewYork], Tuesday Evening, January 5, 1932, page Three--accessed at Fulton History website:  http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2015/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Star%201932%20-200026.pdf  on April 17, 2015 by G. Dempsey).

  •  JUNE:    On June 7 of this year Chaim Weizmann meets the new British Minister of Munitions, David Lloyd George, in London, England. They discuss Weizmann's work on producing acetone by a fermenattion process. Lloyd George is impressed by what he hears, and he gives Weizmann larger carte blanche to scale up his fermenattion process. (SOURCE:  The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Rihard Rhodes ((paperback)), pg. 89).  

  •  JUNE (WHOLE MONTH):    At this time the tempo of fighting between the Germans and the British increases in the Belgian-French region. The constant need to be on duty is beginning to tell on Adolf Hitler. His face becomes wan and sallow.  (SOURCE:  Adolf Hitler by John Toland ((paperback)), page 63).

  • JULY:    At about July 5 of this year the 38th Brigade of the British 13th Infantry Division has arrived at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula, which is a relatively secure bay behind the trench lines on the peninsula. The brigade has come from Alexandria, Egypt.  (SOURCE:  The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhiodes ((paperback)), pg. 96).

  • JULY:    At about July 6 of this year there are flies everywhere in the British army camp at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Bulgaria , according to Harry Moseley of the 38th Brigade of the British 13th Infantry Division.  (Source:  The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes ((paperback)), pg.96). 

  •  JULY:    On or about July 27 of this year the British divisions that are stationed around Cape Helles on the Gallipoli Peninsula cross to Lemnos Island in Turkey to stage for the reinforcing invasion to divide the peninsula, gain the heights and outflank the Turkish lines toward Helles.  (SOURCE:  The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes ((paperback)), pg. 96). 

  • JULY (WHOLE MONTH):    During this month the tempo of fighting in Belgium and France between the Germans and the British has increased again. In the dark hours of the morning when an English barrage starts up, Adolf Hitler leaps out of bed and, rifle in hand, paces rapidly back and forth in his barracks until everyone else is awake.  (SOURCE:  Adolf Hitler by John Toland ((paperback)), page 63). 

  •  JULY (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At this time in England horse-chestnuts are in plentiful supply, and a national collection of them is organized for the purpose of using their starch content as a substitute for maize.  (SOURCE:  The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes ((paperback)), pg. 90).

  • AUGUST:    On the night of August 9 of this year Turkish reinforcement troops arrive on the Gallipoli Peninsula of Bulgaria, and they crowd into the Chanuk trenches, all thirty thousand of them.  (SOURCE:  The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes ((paperback)), pg. 97).    

  •  AUGUST:    On the morning of August 10 of this year the Turkish troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula of Bulgaria launch their asault against the British forces there. The sun is behind the attackers, blinding the British. John Masefield, the British poet, is with the English troops and he will later report, "They came on in a monstrous mass, packed shoulder to shoulder,  in some places eight deep, in others three or four deep." The British forces are driven back, but a succession of British counterattacks soon develop, resulting in viscious body-to-body fights with knives, stones and even teeth, in the ruined cornfields of The Farm. In today's battle at TheFarm, British signals officer Harry Moseley of the 38th Brigade, 13th Infantry Division,is killed. (SOURCE:  The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes ((paperback)), pg. 97).  

  •  SEPTEMBER: By some time in September of this year Adolf Hitler has become indespensible to his regimental headquarters. The telephone lines to battalion and to company command posts are often being knocked out by artillery bursts and only runners can deliver messages. His superiors quickly find out who are the most reliable messengers, and Hitler is one of he best.  (SOURCE:  Adolf Hitler-John Toland ((paperback)), pg. 63).

  •  OCTOBER:     In the United States of America at about this time (Fall, 1915) the War Department, aware of the increased used of gas agents on the battlefields in Europe, begins to consider ways to provide troops with means of protection agaist such weapons; it assigns responsibility for the design and development of respirators to the Medical Department of the Army.  (SOURCE:  UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II The Technical Services THE CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE: ORGANIZING FOR WAR by Leo P. Brophy and George J. B. Fisher OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY WASHINGTON, D. C., 1959, page 3).  

  •  NOVEMBER

  •  DECEMBER        

  • (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this year in the United States of America C. A. Beard publishes his study, "Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy".  (SOURCE:  The American Nation...to 1877  Second E dition ((paperback)0, John A. Garraty, Supplementary Reading List, pg. 228).   

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