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News and Events of 1915

World Events

population by decade

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President: Woodrow Wilson
Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall
Population: 100,546,000

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The one millionth Ford automobile rolls off the assembly line.
The Superior Court in Fulton County, Ga. accepts the charter for the establishment of the new Ku Klux Klan (Dec. 4).

Federal spending:   $0.75 billion
Consumer Price Index:   10.1
Unemployment:   8.5%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.02

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Boston Red Sox d. Philadelphia Phillies (4-1)

Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA)

Women: Not held (World War I)
Men: Not held (World War I)

Regret

Cornell (9-0-0)

Nobel Prize for Literature: Romain Rolland (France)

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D.W. Griffith's technically brilliant Civil War epic, The Birth of a Nation, introduces the narrative close-up, the flashback and other elements that endure today as the structural principles of narrative filmmaking.
Ruth St. Denis and her husband, Ted Shawn, establish the Denishawn dance school in Los Angeles, where Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey study.
Audrey Munson, playing a model for a sculptor in the film Inspiration, becomes the first actress to shed her clothes on screen.