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1915-2015Celebrating the
Centennials of Two World’s Fairs
January 1, 1915
Panama-California Exposition opens in San Diego
January 26, 1915President Woodrow Wilson Signs the Rocky Mountain National Park Act
February 8, 1915
D.W. Griffith’s epic, “The Birth of a Nation” premiers
February 19, 1915
Start of Gallipoli Campaign (WWI)
February 20, 1915
Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens
February 22, 1915
Germany begins unrestricted submarine warfare.
Grand Prix Race at Panama Pacific International Exposition.
February 23, 1915
Stockholders’ Day at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
March 6, 1915
Vanderbuilt Cup Race at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
March 14, 1915
Pioneering stunt aviator Lincoln Beachey is killed performing aerial maneuvers at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
March 16, 1915
The United States Federal Trade Commission is created.
Fresno County Day at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
March 25
U.S. Navy fleet enters San Francisco Bay to visit the exposition.
March 31, 1915
Inventors and businessmen Thomas Edison and Henry Ford visit the Panama-California Exposition.
April 1, 1915
World’s Social Progress Congress Day at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
April 5, 1915
Jack Johnson loses the World Heavyweight Boxing Title to Jess Willard
April 12-13, 1915
Far Western Wrestling Championships held at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
April 22, 1915
Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and Mabel Normand visit the Panama-Pacific International Exposition to film “Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco.”
April 24, 1915
Turkey issues deportation order for Armenians, beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
May 5-8, 1915
Panama-Pacific International Exposition boxing championships take place.
May 6, 1915
Babe Ruth hits his first major league home run with the Boston Red Sox.
May 7, 1915
Cunard ocean liner Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat, 123 Americans perish.
May 20, 1915
National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Association Day at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
May 23, 1915
Italy enters World War I on the side of the Triple Entente.
June 4, 1915
American Sweet Pea Society Day and International Conference of Women Workers to Promote Peace Day at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
June 8, 1915
William Jennings Brian resigns as Secretary of State over disagreement over U.S. handling of Lusitania sinking.
June 10, 1915
The Girl Scouts are founded.
June 11, 1915
Hawaiian Day at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
June 17, 1915
Friends of the Pacific Day and National Conference on Weights and Measures take place at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
July 10, 1915
San Joaquin Valley Day at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
July 10-17, 1915
Panama-Pacific International Exposition Tennis Championships.
July 15-17, 1915
Far Western Swimming Championships take place at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
July 24, 1915
Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, with the loss of 852 lives.
July 27, 1915
Former President Theodore Roosevelt gives a speech at the Panama-California Exposition.
July 28, 1915
U.S. Occupation of Haiti begins. 330 Marines land at Port-au-Prince to secure U.S. business interests.
August 6-7, 1915
National Association of Retail Druggists conference at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
August 14-September 4, 1915
P.P.I.E. International Yachting Regatta.
August 16, 1915
A hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas, killing 12 people and causing $8-million in property damage.
September 4, 1915
The U.S. Military places Haiti under martial law.
September 16, 1915
Farmers Day at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Former President Taft addresses a large crowd at the Spreckels Organ at the Panama-California Exposition.
October 4-9, 1915
Panama-Pacific International Exposition Lacrosse Championships.
October 12, 1915
The 1 millionth Model T rolls off the Ford assembly line.
October 19, 1915
The U.S. recognizes General Venustiano Carranza as the legitimate president of Mexico and imposes an embargo on all Mexican territories not controlled by Carranza.
October 23, 1915
Tens of thousands of women suffragists march in New York City, demanding the right to vote.
November 29-December 1, 1915
Pet Stock Show at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
December 4, 1915
The Panama-Pacific International Exposition closes.
December 13, 1915
Albert Einstein publishes his theory of general relativity, changing physics forever.
December 18
President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt.
January 1, 1916
The Panama-California Exposition continues for another year, taking on a number of attractions from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
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