Today in History: May 7, RMS Lusitania torpedoed, sunk by German submarine
In the current era is Wednesday May the th day of There are days left in the year In the current era in history On May a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the British liner RMS Lusitania off the southern coast of Ireland killing people including Americans out of the nearly on board Also on this date In Nazi Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims France ending its role in World War II Related Articles years after World War II Germany is still painstakingly searching for its fallen soldiers Currently in History May the Hindenburg crashes in flames in New Jersey St Paul Sgt Vick remembered years after he was killed in line of duty How Alcatraz became America s bulk notorious prison Currently in History May Alan Shepard becomes first American in space In the -day Battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam ended with Vietnamese insurgents overrunning French forces it would be the last major battle of the First Indochina War In President Gerald R Ford formally declared an end to the Vietnam era In Ho Chi Minh City formerly Saigon the Viet Cong celebrated its takeover In Seattle Slew won the Kentucky Derby the first of his Triple Crown victories In Monsanto and six other chemical companies agreed to pay a million settlement to Vietnam veterans who were exposed to the chemical herbicide Agent Orange during the Vietnam War In Georgia agents arrested a white father and son and charged them with murder in the February shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery a Black man they had pursued in a truck after spotting him running in their neighborhood near the port city of Brunswick The two men and a third white man would be convicted of murder in state court and hate crimes in federal court The present day s Birthdays Singer Thelma Houston is Rock musician Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead is Actor former boxer Randall Tex Cobb is Actor Breckin Meyer is Reggaeton musician J Balvin is Actor-comedian Aidy Bryant is Actor-writer Maya Erskine is Actor Alexander Ludwig is YouTube personality MrBeast Jimmy Donaldson is
