The British and ANZAC troops gave up ground at Chunuk Bair.
The German Navy cleared the Gulf of Riga of mines and entered it, but withdrew after the SMS Moltke was hit by a torpedo from a British submarine.
The British liner Arabic was sunk by the U-24. The U-27 was sunk by the HMS Baralong.
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The 1915 Galveston Hurricane approached the coast of Texas.
The storm was on the cover of the local Casper paper, as well as news of ongoing border problems.
The Battle of the Gulf of Riga took place in which the German battleships SMS Nassau and Posen led over 30 torpedo boats to breach Russian naval defenses in the Baltic Sea gulf but lost a destroyer and a minesweeper during the attack. An attempt to land German troops during the attack failed.
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The 1915 Galveston Hurricane made landfall. Atmospheric pressure was recorded at 27.76 inHg (940 mb) with wind speeds of 135 mph (217 km/h) leading to $921 million in damage, but the construction of the seawall in the city following the 1900 Hurricane prevented large scale loss of life.
The German battleships SMS Nassau and Posen dueled with the Russian battleship Slava at Riga.
Jewish American Leo Frank was abducted from his prison cell in Milledgeville, Georgia and lynched for the alleged murder of former employee of the plant he supervised, the impoverished 13-year-old Mary Phagan in Atlanta. The mob included a former Governor.
While Frank was convicted of the crime of rape and murder, there are significant doubts about his guilt, which is why the original sentence of death was commented to life in prison.
Charles Kettering patented the electric starter for automobiles.
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