Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae of the Canadian Army, whom a great aunt of mine served with, wrote In Flanders Fields.
Italy officially left the Triple Alliance.
Russian forces retreated from Gorlice.
Australian, New Zealand and British forces withdrew from Baby 700, a hill at Gallipoli after sustaining 1,000 casualties.
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The ill fated Allied landing began at Gallipoli with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landing at what became known as Anzac Cove while British and French troops landed at Cape Helles.
Ottoman resistance was immediate.
Canadian forces failed to retake St. Julien.
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Villa retreated from the south central Mexican city of Celaya having lost 9,000 men, including 120 officers who were captured and executed.
The Imperial Russian Army defeated the Ottomans at Dilman in what is now Iran.
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Ottoman infantry surrendered at Basra. The British would control the port city for the remainder of the war.
Zeppelins of the German Navy bombed England resulting in two casualties.
The Armenian Druzhina seized the lake side city of Van, Turkey.
Ernest Shackleton wrote in his log that the Endurance was at risk of being "crushed like an eggshell" by the piling mass of ice.
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Pancho Villa attempted a second assault on Celaya, this one nearly succeeding, with Obregón's forces being saved by the timely arrival of an ammunition train on the following day.
Meanwhile, Huerta was looking at the situation and weighting on jumping back in.
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The 1914 Christmas Truce, which was now over, hit the newspapers.
Ottoman forces retreating from Sarikamish bogged down in the woods outside the city. Their numbers had started out at 12,000 and were now 2,500.
Reduced from 12,000 to 2,500 soldiers and a handful of guns, the remaining units fled and freed major routes into Sarikamish for Russians to resupply.
The French retook ground lost the prior day at Champagne.
T. S. Eliot, in a letter to Conrad Aiken from Merton College, Oxford, wrote: "I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead."
University towns were apparently much different then. FWIW, I like university towns.
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British troops in Mesopotamia fought off a large attack by the Ottomans against Basra.and then proceeded to branch out to protect their position at Basra and up the Tigris Valley toward Baghdad.
Highly regarded, Charlie Chaplin's The Tramp was released.
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Germans and Bedouins fought for perhaps the first time in World War One when a party of stranded German marines from the SMS Emden was ambushed while being escorted to Jeddah.
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Paiutes and Utes exchanged gunfire with a posse at Cottonwood Bluff, Utah. The battle arose when a posse came to arrest Ute Tse-ne-gat who had been accused of murdering a Hispanic shepherd. Paiutes made the accusation.
The arrest went immediately wrong and both Piautes and Utes resisted. The war would be negotiated to a peaceful end by Gen. Hugh L. Scott. Tse-ne-gat was tried in Denver, and found innocent of the charges. Tse-ne-gat died, age 39, of tuberculosis eleven years after the trial. Ute and Paiute chiefs, Polk and Posey, who participated in the war, went to the Ute Reservation in Colorado but found themselves unwelcome there, which is not surprising to those familiar with Ute history. The returned to a subsistence lifestyle and combined it with cattle rustling. A second armed outbreak would result in 1923.
The Royal Navy continued bombarding Ottoman seaforts in the Dardanelles.
The Ottomas removed ethnic Armenians from their armed forces.
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British aircraft attacked Ottoman troops east of the Suez Canal.
Wyoming's legislature rejected a Prohibition bill.
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The Ottoman's were in retreat from the Suez Canal.
Germany proclaimed that neutral vessels would be sunk in British waters.
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The British kept the Ottomans from crossing the Suez Canal.
The Germans started a second siege on Osowiec Fortress.
Co conspirators in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Veljko Čubrilović, Danilo Ilić and Miško Jovanović were executed by hanging.
John Chilembwe was spotted by a police patrol and shot dead near Mulanje, Malawi.
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An Ottoman force numbering 13,000 troops laid siege to the Suez Canal.
William Fox established Fox Film.
Wilhelm Fried Fuchs was born in Tolcsva, Hungary and was a Hungarian Jew. His family immigrated to the US when he was a boy. His movie company still exists in an evolved form.
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The Ottomans took the main coastal road between Qantara at the Suez Canal and El Arish that bordered Ottoman Palestine.
The US barque William P. Frye was detaomed by the German cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich off of the coast of Brazil. She was carrying 189,950 US bushels (1,768,300 US gal) of wheat, bound for Queenstown, Falmouth, or Plymouth in the United Kingdom.
The Germans scuttled her the following day after the captain refused to thrown the cargo overboard. The crew and passengers, including women and children, were released when the German ship put in at Newport News on March 11 due to engine trouble, at which time the US learned of the event, sparking outrage.
She was the first US ship sunk during World War One.
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Ottoman forces attacked January 26, 1915 El Qantara, Egypt on the Suez Canal.
Chilembwe rebels raided a Catholic mission at Nguludi, Nyasaland.
Rocky Mountain National Park was established.
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Ottoman stragglers were rounded up by the Russians at Sarikamish.
The Arab houses of Āl Rashīd and Āl Saʻūd fought the Battle of Jarrab north of Al Majma'ah. Āl Rashīd prevailed. Pre war civil servant and wartime British military advisor William Shakespear, a close friend of Ibn Saud, was killed, resulting in diminished British influence over the House of Saud.
African American radical Lucy Parsons led an unemployed march of 10,000 workers in Chicago. The event would result in a program for the unemployed.
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Cardinal Mercier of Belgium was arrested by the Germans for is pastoral letter "Patriotism and Endurance", in which condemned German atrocities, and extorts Belgians to stay Belgian.
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