German U-boats torpedoed and sank the British ocean liner Lusitania on May 7 1915.
On May 7, 1915 the American ship, the Lusitania, was sunk off the coast of Ireland. The ship was sunk by a German submarine; the event caused the death of 1198 people, 138 being Americans.
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ITALY DECLARED WAR ON AUSTRIA.
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The Lusitania was a British ship which was sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915
One incident of importance in May of 1915 was the sinking of the passenger ship"Lusitania" off the coast of Britain by a German U-boat(submarine). This incident enraged the American public and gave support to the argument that the U.S. should enter WWI against Germany and its' allies. Which we did in 1917.
The act that happened on May 7, 1915, was the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. The British ocean liner was torpedoed by Germany off the coast of Ireland.
the British passenger ship called the Lusitania was sunk by a German u-boat on May 7, 1915 a couple months after Germany warned that any ship venturing through the 'war zone' would be sunk. The ship contained approximately 1200 passengers and of that 1200 passengers 128 were Americans. The British steamship Falaba was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on March 28, 1915, the date specified in the question, and slightly earlier than the sinking of the Lusitania on May 7, 1915.
7th May 1915, the Lusitania, 1,924 people died
On May 7, 1915, the German U-20 (submarine) sank the British ocean liner Lusitania. Approximately 1,200 civilians died; more than 100 were U.S. citizens
U.S. navy ship sank