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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
SS Andrea Doria was an ocean liner for the Italian Line
(SocietĂ di navigazione Italia) home-ported in Genoa, Italy,
most famous for her sinking on this day in 1956, when 46
people died. Andrea Doria was approaching the coast of
Nantucket, Massachusetts, bound for New York City, the
Eastbound MS Stockholm of the Swedish American Line
collided with it in one of history’s most infamous maritime
disasters.
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INVASION OF PUERTO RICO ON THIS DAY IN 1898
During the Spanish-American War, U.S. forces launch their invasion of Puerto
Rico, the 108-mile-long, 40-mile-wide island that was one of Spain’s two
principal possessions in the Caribbean. With little resistance and only seven deaths, U.S. troops under General Nelson A. Miles were able to secure the
island by mid-August. After the signing of an armistice with Spain, American
troops raised the U.S. flag over the island, formalizing U.S. authority over its
one million inhabitants. Puerto Rico remains a U.S. commonwealth today.
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