This Day in History: 05/07/1915: Munch's The Scream recovered | HISTORY

This Day in History: 05/07/1915: Munch's The Scream recovered

In This Day in History 1915: German submarine sinks video clip: On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. Within 20 minutes, the vessel sank into the Celtic Sea. Of 1,959 passengers and crew, 1,198 people were drowned, including 128 Americans.

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