1915-2015: Celebrating the Centennials of Two World's Fairs

1. 1915-2015
Celebrating the Centennials of
Two World’s Fairs

2. January 1, 1915
Panama-California Exposition opens in San
Diego

4. January 26, 1915
President Woodrow Wilson Signs the Rocky
Mountain National Park Act

6. February 8, 1915
D.W. Griffith’s epic, “The Birth of a Nation”
premiers

8. February 19, 1915
Start of Gallipoli Campaign (WWI)

10. February 20, 1915
Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens

11. February 22, 1915
Germany begins unrestricted submarine
warfare.
Grand Prix Race at Panama Pacific International
Exposition.

13. February 23, 1915
Stockholders’ Day at the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition.

14. March 6, 1915
Vanderbuilt Cup Race at the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition.

16. March 14, 1915
Pioneering stunt aviator Lincoln Beachey is
killed performing aerial maneuvers at the
Panama-Pacific International Exposition

18. March 16, 1915
The United States Federal Trade Commission is
created.
Fresno County Day at the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition.

19. March 25
U.S. Navy fleet enters San Francisco Bay to visit
the exposition.

21. March 31, 1915
Inventors and businessmen Thomas Edison
and Henry Ford visit the Panama-California
Exposition.

23. April 1, 1915
World’s Social Progress Congress Day at the
Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

24. April 5, 1915
Jack Johnson loses the World Heavyweight
Boxing Title to Jess Willard

26. April 12-13, 1915
Far Western Wrestling Championships held at
the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

27. 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.”

28. April 24, 1915
Turkey issues deportation order for Armenians,
beginning of the Armenian Genocide.

30. May 5-8, 1915
Panama-Pacific International Exposition boxing
championships take place.

31. May 6, 1915
Babe Ruth hits his first major league home run
with the Boston Red Sox.

33. May 7, 1915
Cunard ocean liner Lusitania is sunk by a
German U-boat, 123 Americans perish.

35. May 20, 1915
National Congress of Mothers and Parent-
Teacher Association Day at the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition.

36. May 23, 1915
Italy enters World War I on the side of the
Triple Entente.

38. June 4, 1915
American Sweet Pea Society Day and
International Conference of Women Workers to
Promote Peace Day at the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition.

39. June 8, 1915
William Jennings Brian resigns as Secretary of
State over disagreement over U.S. handling of
Lusitania sinking.

41. June 10, 1915
The Girl Scouts are founded.

43. June 11, 1915
Hawaiian Day at the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition.

45. June 17, 1915
Friends of the Pacific Day and National
Conference on Weights and Measures take
place at the Panama-Pacific International
Exposition.

46. July 10, 1915
San Joaquin Valley Day at the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition.

48. July 10-17, 1915
Panama-Pacific International Exposition Tennis
Championships.

50. July 15-17, 1915
Far Western Swimming Championships take
place at the Panama-Pacific International
Exposition.

51. July 24, 1915
Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake
Michigan, with the loss of 852 lives.

53. July 27, 1915
Former President Theodore Roosevelt gives a
speech at the Panama-California Exposition.

54. July 28, 1915
U.S. Occupation of Haiti begins. 330 Marines
land at Port-au-Prince to secure U.S. business
interests.

56. August 6-7, 1915
National Association of Retail Druggists
conference at the Panama-Pacific International
Exposition.

57. August 14-September 4, 1915
P.P.I.E. International Yachting Regatta.

59. August 16, 1915
A hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas, killing 12
people and causing $8-million in property
damage.

61. September 4, 1915
The U.S. Military places Haiti under martial law.

62. 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.

64. October 4-9, 1915
Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Lacrosse Championships.

65. October 12, 1915
The 1 millionth Model T rolls off the Ford
assembly line.

67. 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.

69. October 23, 1915
Tens of thousands of women suffragists march
in New York City, demanding the right to vote.

71. November 29-December 1, 1915
Pet Stock Show at the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition.

73. December 4, 1915
The Panama-Pacific International Exposition
closes.

75. December 13, 1915
Albert Einstein publishes his theory of general
relativity, changing physics forever.

77. December 18
President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith
Bolling Galt.

79. January 1, 1916
The Panama-California Exposition continues
for another year, taking on a number of
attractions from the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition.