Photos:: 15 travel-inspiring anniversaries coming in 2015
In late 2014, Australia and New Zealand marked 100 years since their first convoy of troops left for the battlefields of World War I. Anzac day -- April 25 -- will commemorate the day the two countries’ soldiers arrived in Gallipoli, Turkey. (Lsis Jayson Tufrey / AFP/Getty Images)
The famous chanteuse was born in December 1915. Piaf is buried in Paris’ star-studded Père Lachaise cemetery. (Bruno De Hogues / Getty Images)
On Jan. 26, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson signed the bill that established the Colorado land as a national park. (Brad McGinley Photography / Getty Images / Flickr RF)
Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah was established after the discovery of 150-million-year-old beds of dinosaur fossils. This is a view over Green River. (David Hiser / Getty Images)
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The cornerstone for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was placed Feb. 12, 1915, Lincoln’s birthday. The memorial was dedicated in 1922. (Adam Korzekwa / Getty Images)
Cobh, a town on the southern coast of Ireland, witnessed the aftermath of the sinking of the British ocean liner Lusitania, in which almost 1,200 people died. This memorial stands in the town. (Universal Images Group / Getty Images)
The resort city was incorporated March 26, 1915. Here, cruisers ply Ocean Drive at dusk, where clubs and restaurants stay lively till sunrise. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Cuba’s capital was founded in 1515. An old Plymouth classic car passes a Cuban flag and Che Guevara mural painted on an eroded wall in Old Havana. (Merten Snijders / Getty Images)
