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This Day in History: A German Torpedo Sinks the British Liner Lusitania, Killing 1,198

When the First World War began, in the summer of 1914, the Lusitania was among the most glamorous and celebrated ships in the world—at one time both the largest and fastest afloat. But the British passenger liner would earn a far more tragic place in history on May 7, 1915, when it was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland, with the loss of nearly 1,200 lives.

Among the prominent American victims were such luminaries of the day as the theatrical impresario Charles Frohman, the popular writer Elbert Hubbard and the very rich Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. But the list of passengers who missed the Lusitania’s last voyage was equally illustrious. - Continue reading at Smithsonian.com for the stories of eight famous men and women who were lucky enough to dodge the torpedo.

Ed note: Three years before the Lusitania sank, several notable people missed the Titanic, including a world-famous novelist, a radio pioneer and America’s biggest tycoons.

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