1915

German submarine sinks the liner Lusitania
1st Zeppelin air attack on London
1st transcontinental telephone call in the US
W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage
Edgar Lee Masters' A Spoon River Anthology
Einstein postulates his "General Theory of Relativity"
General Electric markets an electronic refrigerator for home use
Films - "The Birth of a Nation", "The Tramp"
Saul Bellow, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Orson Welles, Moshe Dayan, Ingrid Bergman, and Arthur Miller born