Timeline January 1915

Events in January 1915 4

• 1915 Australian Open 1915 Men: Francis Lowe Last Australian Championship before World War I.
• 1915 The first Zeppelin raid on Britain Norfolk, United Kingdom Airships bombed Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn, killing four. Civilians far from any front line were now targets.
• 1915 Battle of Dogger Bank British and German battlecruiser fleets clash in the North Sea On 24 January 1915 British and German battlecruiser squadrons fought a running battle in the North Sea. The German armoured cruiser Blücher was sunk and Admiral Franz von Hipper's damaged flagship escaped, prompting the Kaiser to restrict further fleet risk-taking.
• 1915 First transcontinental telephone call Alexander Graham Bell speaks from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco On 25 January 1915 Alexander Graham Bell inaugurated the first transcontinental telephone line, repeating his original 1876 words to Thomas Watson across a continent. The line linked New York and San Francisco via more than 3,000 miles of copper wire.