
Today in History: May 7, RMS Lusitania torpedoed, sunk by German submarine
TODAY IN HISTORY In 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the British liner RMS Lusitania off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans, out of the nearly 2,000 on board. In 1945, Nazi Germany signed an unconditional …