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Many things happened and were invented in the year of 1915. Many things were invented and founded for warfare because the year of 1915 was in the time of World War I. Submarines are first used to attack and fighter airplanes are first used. In 1915 the Ku Klux Klan had around about 8 million members, mostly in the South and the Midwest. The First wireless communications between the United States and Japan occured.

• On January 28 President Wilson signed a bill creating the United States Coast Guard.
• On May 7 a British passenger ship the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat, because the Germans claimed they were armed and warned. The Lusitania carried 1,906 passengers of the 1,906 passengers 746 were rescued and 1,142 were victims and died.
• On May 31 Zeppelins bombed London.
• On June 21 Ziegfeld Follies showed at the New Amsterdam Theater. It stared W.C. Fields, Ed Wynn, and George White.
• Ty Cobb, "the Georgia Peach," set a new record for stolen bases, 96. 
• Booker Taliaferro Washington dies on November 14. He wrote an autobiography about his life as a slave.
• President Woodrow Wilson gets married to Edith Bolling Galt on December 18, 1915.
• In 1915 the first depth charges were developed in Britain against the German U-boats. Depth Charges are a steel drum filled with T.N.T., which are dropped off a boat and intend to hit the submarines and explode.
• The movie Birth of a Nation was directed and filmed. It was a very racist movie but it was an American landmark film masterpiece. This movie was used to show how America should stay to the whites and that the African Americans should not be in America. It is still used now days for recruiting for the Klan. It was directed by D. W. Griffith who used close-up, fade-out, and flashbacks, pioneering film techniques. 
• The first long distance phone line was created by Alexander Graham from New York to San Francisco.
• The first mechanical pencil was invented in Japan by Tokuji Hayakawa.

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