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One of the most important incidents of World War I took place on May 7, 1915, when the British ocean liner, RMS Lusitania, ...
Ocean liner SS Schiller sank close to the Isles of Scilly on the night of 7 May 1875, with the loss of more than 300 lives ...
On 7 May 1915, the British ocean liner, the Lusitania, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast, as it sailed from New York to Liverpool. Thousands of passengers were onboard and 1,200 ...
A Bazetta resident survived the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania and offered a key eyewitness account of the tragedy that killed ...
Cobh will host a solemn and dignified tribute this May as the annual Lusitania Commemoration Ceremony takes place on Sunday, ...
1954 – Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh forces defeated French troops at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam. The battle had lasted nearly ...
Plus, the entrepreneur and engineer Yoshitada Minami and his wife Fumiko Minami who came up with a way to liberate women from two to three hours of housework a day through the invention of the rice ...
Pictures: Chani Anderson Few towns in Ireland treasure their history as does Cobh. There is so much to value. From the early ...
Several men with ties to Sault Ste. Marie were among those who died when the ocean liner Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine. G.A. Nyblom was on board, as was former resident E.S. Cowpoer.
“We could now remember people who had died under the Nazis who had been completely blotted out of our family history. We grew ...