Saturday, May 1, 1915

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The Headlines

ALLIES NOW HOLD SIX POSITIONS ON DARDANELLES; Official Report Describes Successful Landings Against Strong Defense. EFFECTED WITH HEAVY LOSS Land Forces Suffered Most, but Some Ships Were Lost, One a Destroyer. TURKISH TROOPSHIP SUNK Hit by Queen Elizabeth's Shells, Fired Across the Gallipoli Peninsula -- Forts Bombarded. BRITISH HAVE INTRENCHED One Line Runs Across Southern Part of Peninsula, Which Invaders Control. TURKS REPORT REPULSES Assert That All But One Landing Attempt Failed, and They Damaged Three Warships.

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On This Day

• RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769)
• Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852)
• Joseph Addison (1672)
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881)
• Rudolf I of Germany (1218)

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