On May 7, 1915, the RMS Lusitania was nearing the Irish coast when a German U-boat fired a single torpedo. Within 18 minutes, the ship had sunk, leaving over a thousand dead and just over 700 ...

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On May 7th, 1915 the Cunard luxury liner Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland. 20 year old wireless operator David McCormick stopped to take some photos of the scene and his ...

On May 8, 1915, world events brought a reporter from the Allentown Chronicle and News to the front door of Capt. Harold S. and Mary Ormrod MacLaine. The day before, the Cunard liner Lusitania, loaded ...

The message sent at 2:33 p.m. May 7, 1915, by the Lusitania was succinct: “Come at once.” The distress call was the first inkling of a German submarine attack that killed more than 1,000 passengers ...

In 1945: President Harry S. Truman announced on radio that Nazi Germany's forces had surrendered, and that "the flags of freedom fly all over Europe." 100 years ago: Lusitania death toll: "The latest ...

Lusitania centenary commemorations commence in Courtmacsherry County Cork this weekend, with a re-enactment on Sunday to remember those who lost their lives on May 7, 1915. Paddy Kehoe talked to ...

LONDON, Jan. 22, 1915 (UP) - The English steamer Durward, from Leith to Rotterdam, was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine yesterday, 22 miles northwest of the Bus lightship, near the mouth of the Maas, ...

The San Diego Union-Tribune will mark its 150th anniversary in 2018 by presenting a significant front page from the archives each day throughout the year. On May 7, 1915 a German U-boat torpedoed and ...