May 7: British ocean liner Lusitania is sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland, leaving 1,198 people missing, including 128 US citizens, and provoking outrage in western democracies.
May 7: British ocean liner Lusitania is sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland, leaving 1,198 people missing, including 128 US citizens, and provoking outrage in western democracies.