The Edmund Fitzgerald went down on this date 30 years ago.
Andersonville prison commander Henry Wirz was hanged on this date 140 years ago.
The U.S. Marine Corps was founded on this date 230 years ago. NewMexiKen misses working with a marine who brought a birthday cake for the Corps to the office each year — and we all sang the Marine Hymn.
Sad as it is, I have always loved that song (and nearly everything else he sang). As for accuracy, Detroit would have been a lot harder to rhyme (such as it is) with anything that made any sense.