World War I History
1918 - The U.S. steamship Tuscania left Hoboken, NJ. It was torpedoed on February 5th by the German submarine U-77. The convoy was able to save 2,187 American soldiers of the 2,397 onboard.
1920 - The Dutch government refused to extradite Kaiser Wilhelm to the Allies.
| "My darling one and beautiful, everything tends towards catastrophe and collapse" - British naval officer Winston Churchill, July 29, 1914 |
