1915 in Review by BarkerC

January: TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED: The first long distance telephone call (between New York and San Francisco) is made by these two men, who made the inaugural phone call 39 years earlier.

February: Mary Mallon, while working as a cook at Sloane Hospital for Women, infects 25 people with this disease, earning her permanent quarantine and a lasting nickname.

March: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the forerunner of this government agency, is founded.

April: In this 32 minute film, Charlie Chaplin plays this title character, one which will go on to become his signature role.

May: Canadian soldier John McCrae writes this well-known poem of World War I, featuring the lines: "To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high."

June: This Secretary of State resigns his post in the Wilson Administration in disagreement with the President's policy in the wake of the Lusitania attack.

July: A contingent of 330 U.S. Marines begins a 19-year long occupation of this Caribbean island.

August: Hurricane #2 of the Atlantic Hurricane Season hits New Orleans and this Texas port city just fifteen years after it had been nearly destroyed by another hurricane.

September: This instrument gains wide spread popularity in the continental United States thanks to its availability at the Hawaiian Pavilion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.

October: This Prague-born author's novella ~Die Verwandlung~ debuts in Germany.

November: This civil rights leaders, author of "The Atlanta Compromise" speech and first leader of the Tuskegee Institute dies at the age of 59.

December: This 1954 Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor is born in Hoboken, New Jersey.