The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
On November 10, 1975, the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a Lake Superior storm with all 29 crew, becoming the Great Lakes' most famous shipwreck.
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The Night Niagara Falls Fell Silent (1848)
On March 29, 1848, an ice jam choked the Niagara River at its source, silencing the falls for 30 hours while astonished townsfolk walked the dry riverbed.