Video: 'Grad Student Finds Footage of 1915 Ship Disaster'
(Tuesday, July 24, 1915, 7:28 a.m. CDT; during World War I) — The SS Eastland, a passenger ship carrying more than 2,500 people, rolled onto its side today while docked at the Clark Street Bridge on the Chicago River, killing 844 passengers and four crew members.
Video: 'The Story of Jazz'
(Sunday, July 11, 1915) — The Chicago Sunday Tribune ran an article today titled, “Blues Is Jazz and Jazz Is Blues” in what’s believed to be one of the earliest, if not the earliest, uses of the word “jazz” as a musical term by a newspaper.
(Friday, July 2, 1915, at approximately 11:40 p.m. EDT; during World War I) — A tremendous explosion caused by a time bomb wrecked the east reception room on the main floor of the Senate wing of the Capitol Building just before midnight tonight, causing considerable damage but hurting no one.
Video: 'William Jennings Bryan Campaigns for President'
(Tuesday, June 8, 1915; during World War I) — William Jennings Bryan, three times Democratic nominee for the presidency and author of nearly thirty peace treaties with the principal nations of the world, resigned today (effective June 9, 1915) as U.S. Secretary of State over what he viewed as President Woodrow Wilson’s overly bellicose attitude toward Germany following the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
Video: 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'
(Tuesday, June 1, 1915) — The T.S. Eliot poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was first published today in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in Chicago, heralding a paradigmatic cultural shift from late 19th-century Romantic verse and Georgian lyrics to Modernism.
Video: 'Italian front in World War I'
(Sunday, May 23, 1915; on the Italian Front of World War I) — Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary today following secret promises made by Allies in the Treaty of London. Continue reading Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary 100 years ago today (May 23 1915)
Video: 'Mt Lassen 1915'
(Saturday, May 22, 1915, 4:30 p.m. local time) — The Lassen Peak volcano in Northern California exploded today, devastating nearby areas but causing no deaths.
Video: 'Terror At Sea Sinking Of The Lusitania Documentary) - YouTube' (May 7, 1915, at 35:51)
(Friday, May 7, 1915, 2:10-2:28 p.m. GMT; during World War I) — In an incident that turned international opinion against Germany, the German U-boat U-20 torpedoed and sank the British liner RMS Lusitania, traveling from New York to Liverpool, off the southern coast of Ireland today, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans, out of the nearly 2,000 on board. Continue reading Germans torpedo British liner RMS Lusitania, killing 1198, including 128 Americans 100 years ago this hour (May 7 1915)
Video: 'Terror At Sea Sinking Of The Lusitania Documentary) - YouTube' (May 6, 1915, at 21:10)
(Thursday, May 6, 1915, 7:50 p.m. GMT; during World War I) — Captain William Thomas Turner of the British liner RMS Lusitania, approaching the Irish Sea on a journey from New York to Liverpool with nearly 2,000 aboard, was given a warning message twice tonight and took what he felt were prudent precautions. Continue reading British liner RMS Lusitania warned of German submarine activity 100 years ago this hour (May 6 1915)
(Thursday, May 6, 1915; during World War I) — Rookie pitcher Babe Ruth, 20, hit the first of his 714 major-league home runs today as a player for the Boston Red Sox in the top of the third inning off Yankee right-hander Jack Warhop at the the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan, New York.
Ruth, however, was the losing pitcher in the 4-3 defeat for the Red Sox.
