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| 1915 |
| | | An employee of the Metropolitan Railway coins the term Metro-land when promoting the company's services in London's suburbs | |
|  | Poster advertising Metro-land
London's Transport Museum
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| 1915 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi returns to India after more than twenty years in South Africa | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Alexander Graham Bell again summons his assistant Thomas Watson (as in 1876), but this time he is in New York and Watson in San Francisco | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Manuel de Falla's ballet El Amor Brujo, including the 'Ritual Fire Dance', is performed in Paris | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson loses his title, in the 26th round, to the "Great White Hope", Jess Willard | |
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| 1915 |
| | | The Metropolitan Water Board Light Railway, with a two foot guage, is constructed to connect the coal wharf and pumping stations in Hampton Waterworks and the Kempton Park pumping station | |
|  | Engine on the Waterworks Light Railway, c.1920
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| 1915 March |
| | | Leonard and Virginia Woolf move to Hogarth House, in Paradise Road, which remains their home for ten years | |
|  | Hogarth House, in Paradise Road, Richmond BG
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| 1915 |
| | | The Corning Glass Company launches Pyrex, a new range of heat-resistant kitchen ware made from borosilicate glass | |
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| 1915 |
| | | D.W. Griffith's epic film The Birth of a Nation has its premiere in New York | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag, by George Asaf and Felix Powell, rapidly becomes one of the most popular songs of the day | |
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