Video: 'Terror At Sea Sinking Of The Lusitania Documentary) - YouTube' (May 7, 1915, at 35:51)

(Friday, May 7, 1915, 2:10-2:28 p.m. GMT; during World War I) — In an incident that turned international opinion against Germany, the German U-boat U-20 torpedoed and sank the British liner RMS Lusitania, traveling from New York to Liverpool, off the southern coast of Ireland today, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans, out of the nearly 2,000 on board.

Video: '(WW1) The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century - Total War (Part 3 of 7)' (May 7, 1915, at 38:25)