page_title: February 1915
section_title: February 14, 1915 (Sunday)
hierarchical_section_title: February 1915 / February 14, 1915 (Sunday)
caption_attribution_description: Working to free the ship Endurance.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in February 1915:
context_section_description: The 1st Canadian Division arrived in France.
  The first contingent of 500 Māori soldiers sailed for Egypt aboard SS Wairrimoo, reversing an earlier decision not to have New Zealand's indigenous population participate in the war effort.
  After weeks moored in thick ice, the crew of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition attempted to free their ship Endurance by hacking through the ice pack with ice-chisels, prickers, saws and picks. When the effort proved futile, expedition leader Ernest Shackleton wrote he now expected the "possibility of having to spend a winter in the inhospitable arms of the pack".
  The first Inter-Allied Socialist Conference was held in London, with 40 delegates from five countries attending. Three more conferences would be held before the end of World War I.
  The Imperial German Army established the 9th Landwehr Division.
  No. 11 Squadron and No. 12 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps were established at Netheravon, England.
  The Thorndale station open on the Red Line in Chicago.
  An annular solar eclipse was observed in western Australia and Papua New Guinea.
  Born: J. Paul Austin, American business executive, president and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company from 1962 to 1981, in LaGrange, Georgia (d. 1985); Thomas L. Ridge, American marine corps officer, commander of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines during the Korean War, recipient of the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Air Medal, Bronze Star Medal, in Chicago (d. 1999)
caption: Crew members working to free the Endurance from the ice.
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