Sunday, January 25, 2015

Monday, January 25, 1915. The telephone menace spreads.

Lightly armed rebels following John Chilembwe were defeated by the Kings African Rifles.

The Ottomans advanced on Qantara on the Sinai.

Alexander Graham Bell, in New York City, called Thomas A. Watson, in San Francisco, in the first US long distance telephone call.

The German Navy sustained its first Zeppelin loss when an ice up airship went down over the Baltic after bombing Libau, Russia.  The Imperial Russian Navy captured the crew.

The United States Supreme Court determined a pardon is only valid if the person it is the subject of accepts it.

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Sunday, January 24, 1915. The Battle of Dogger Bank.

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