March 30, 1848: Niagara Falls Runs Dry
I saw a few people tweet about this yesterday, but didn’t get a chance to retweet or blog about it. From Wired.com: 1848: Niagara Falls stops. No water flows over the great cataract for 30 or 40 hours. People freak out. The falls were already a tourist attraction by 1848, and villages had grown up…