page_title: April 1915
section_title: April 5, 1915 (Monday)
hierarchical_section_title: April 1915 / April 5, 1915 (Monday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Panorama of Jess Willard - Jack Johnson (boxer) fight, Havana, Cuba.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in April 1915:
context_section_description: Boxer Jess Willard, the latest "Great White Hope", defeated Jack Johnson with a 26th-round knockout in sweltering heat at Havana. Willard became very popular among white Americans for "bringing back the championship to the white race".
  The Daily Mail published Teddy Tail, the first daily cartoon strip in a British newspaper.
  Born: John McLendon, American basketball coach, head of  various basketball teams starting with the North Carolina Central Eagles men's basketball team in 1941 to the Cleveland State Vikings men's basketball team in 1969, first African American to coach a professional sports team with the Denver Rockets in 1969, in Hiawatha, Kansas (d. 1999); Johnny Sylvester, American business executive, best known for being the sick boy baseball star Babe Ruth promised to hit a home run for during the 1926 World Series which resulted in a miraculous recovery, in Caldwell, New Jersey (d. 1990)
caption: Panorama of title fight between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard in Havana.
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