On This Day...07.05

1765 - HMS Victory, the ship which becomes the flagship of British Admiral Horatio Nelson, is launched at Chatham. The ship is now preserved at Portsmouth.

1915 - The Cunard liner Lusitania is torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland with the loss of almost 1,200 lives.

1926 - The qualifying age for women voters in Britain is lowered from 30 to 21.

1954 - Dien Bien Phu, a major French stronghold in northwest Vietnam, falls to the Vietnamese Communists after 57 days of siege.

1973 - The Washington Post wins the Pulitzer Prize for the work of its reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in exposing the Watergate scandal during the Presidency of Richard Nixon.

1997 - Glasgow Rangers win their 9th successive Scottish League title.