May 7, 1915–Sail the Lusitania!

May 7, 1915, ENGLAND—“Come one, come all.  Come said on the beautiful, luxurious Lusitanian.”

• 1824 Beethoven’s 9th Symphony premiered in Vienna.
• 1847 The American Medical Association was organized in Philadelphia, Pa.
• 1915 The British ocean liner Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine in World War I off the coast of Ireland.
• 1945 Germany unconditionally surrendered to the allies in Rheims, France.
• 1994 Edvard Munch’s painting, The Scream was recovered a few months after it had been stolen.
• 2000 Vladimir Putin was inaugurated as Russia’s president.

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