May 7 1915 - Sinking of the Lusitania
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RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner and briefly the world’s largest passenger ship. The ship was sunk on 7 May 1915 by Imperial German U-boat
SM U-20
11 mi (18 km) off the southern coast of Ireland. The sinking presaged the United States declaration of war on Germany (1917).
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The Illustrated London News, May 15, 1915. P. 631.
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