1915

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March 12 - Frank Costello is arrested for carrying a concealed weapons after detectives receive information from an informant. Costello is sentenced to one year in Welfare Island prison by Judge Edward Swann and is released after ten months.
April 24 - The Ottoman Empire, now under control of the Young Turks (lead by Enver, Djemal, and Talaat Pasha) initiate the Armenian Genocide by deporting Armenian notables from Istanbul.
May 7 - The RMS Lusitania is torpedoed and sunk by the German U-boat U-20, captained by Walther Schwieger. 1,198 are killed, with 128 being Americans. This would ultimately lead to the United States entering World War I on the side of the Allies.
August 17 - Leo Frank, a 31-year old Jewish man who was wrongly convicted for the murder of 13-year old Mary Phagan two years earlier, is abducted from prison in Marietta, Georgia and lynched by a group of white supremacists known as the Knights of Mary Phagan.
October 11 - The Ku Klux Klan is reformed by William Joseph Simmons after being largely inactive since 1871.
December 12 - Yuan Shikai declares himself Emperor of China.
Unknown - A.O. Neville is appointed Chief Protector of the Aborigines of Western Australia.