Timeline December 1915

Events in December 1915 9

• 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens World's fair celebrates the opening of the Panama Canal The Panama-Pacific International Exposition opened in San Francisco on 20 February 1915, marking the completion of the Panama Canal and the city's recovery from the 1906 earthquake. It ran through 4 December 1915 and introduced millions of visitors to early aviation displays and electric lighting spectacles.
• 1915 Central Powers conquer Serbia Austro-German and Bulgarian forces overrun Serbia A combined Austro-Hungarian, German, and Bulgarian offensive beginning 6 October 1915 overran Serbian defenses, forcing the Serbian army and government into a harsh winter retreat through Albania. By early December the country was fully occupied, and survivors were evacuated by Allied ships to Corfu.
• 1915 Henry Ford's Peace Ship sails Industrialist funds a private mission to end World War I On 4 December 1915 Henry Ford chartered the ocean liner Oscar II to carry a delegation of pacifists from Hoboken, New Jersey, to Europe in an attempt to mediate an end to the war. The mission, mocked in the press as the "Peace Ship," failed to achieve any diplomatic breakthrough.
• 1915 Siege of Kut begins British-Indian force besieged by Ottoman troops in Mesopotamia On 7 December 1915 an Ottoman army trapped a British-Indian force under General Charles Townshend inside the town of Kut-al-Amara on the Tigris River. The siege continued into 1916 and ended in the largest surrender of British forces to that date.
• 1915 – 1998 Frank Sinatra Francis Albert Sinatra (12 December 1915 -- 14 May 1998) was an American singer and actor who is widely regarded as one of the greatest entertainers of the 20th century. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Sinatra began as a big band vocalist, became the first modern pop idol with his bobby-soxer fans of the early 1940s, suffered a catastrophic career collapse, and staged the most remarkable comeback in entertainment history -- winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1953 and then recording the defining albums of his Capitol Records period (1953-1962). His recordings for Capitol -- 'Songs for Swingin' Lovers,' 'In the Wee Small Hours,' 'Come Fly With Me' -- are the summit of American popular song. He founded Reprise Records, led the Rat Pack, became Las Vegas's defining performer and remained culturally dominant for six decades.
• 1915 Frank Sinatra born in Hoboken, New Jersey Frank Sinatra is born on 12 December 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey, the only child of Antonino Martino Sinatra, a Sicilian immigrant and amateur boxer who later becomes a Hoboken fireman, and Natalie Garaventa, a Ligurian immigrant known as Dolly, who is a local Democratic ward boss and occasional abortionist of considerable local power. Frank is delivered by forceps, leaving permanent scars on his cheek, neck and ear. Dolly is the dominant influence in his life: ambitious, driven, politically connected and absolutely certain her son will be a star.
• 1915 – 1978 Dan Dailey (1915-1978) American dancer and actor, Betty Grable's partner in 1940s Fox musicals.
• 1915 Dan Dailey born in New York Dan Dailey is born in New York.
• 1915 – 1963 Edith Piaf The Little Sparrow World-renowned singer and icon of French cabaret; famous for "La Vie en rose."