100 Years Ago

News from 1915:

January 1—Jihadists attack a train at Broken Hill, Australia

January 12—U.S. House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote

January 27—U.S. Marines occupy Haiti

February 7—Very first wireless message sent to a station from a moving train

February 17—First American dies in combat fighting in World War I

March 19—Pluto is captured in a photograph for the first time

March 27—Typhoid Mary is arrested after years of spreading outbreaks of typhoid fever

April 22—German military uses poison gas (for the first time) in World War I

May 6—Babe Ruth pitches his debut game for the Red Sox and hits his first home run

May 7—Lusitania sunk by a German submarine, causing the loss of 1198 people

June 2—Erich Muenter, a professor of German from Cornell University, sets off a bomb in the U.S. Senate reception room

July 24—The Eastland (a passenger steamship) rolls over into the waters of Lake Michigan while at dock in Chicago, killing 844 people

August 17—275 people die in a hurricane that strikes Galveston, Texas

September 11—The Raggedy Ann doll receives a U.S. Patent

September 29—Very first transcontinental radio-telephone message sent

October 3—Magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Nevada

October 21—First transatlantic radio-telephone message sent

December 12—Germany conducts a test flight for the world’s very first all-metal aircraft

--Mitchell Hegman    (Thanks mostly to Wikipedia)