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Old 02-04-24, 03:56 PM   #5035
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Originally Posted by Jimbuna View Post
1917 US ocean liner Housatonic is sunk by a German submarine, on the same day that US President Woodrow Wilson breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany.
...this being the forum; I'm amazed it wasn't named Housatonic II ...the first Housatonic having been famously sunk in the Civil War as history's first submarine victim, by the CSS Hunley!
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