In This Week In … 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on the remote island of St Helena. His last words were reportedly “France, armée, Joséphine” (5 May 1821); 1937, the airship Hindenburg bursts into flames upon touching its mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey (6 May 1937); 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine. 1198 people are drowned. (7 […]
