Video: 'USS Scorpion (SSN-589) (documentary)'

(Wednesday, May 22, 1968, 6:44 p.m. GMT; during the Cold War) — The American nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion sank today 400 miles from the Azores in the North Atlantic Ocean, killing all 99 of its crew.

Investigators would eventually conclude that the Scorpion was probably destroyed by one of its own torpedoes.