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In the summer of 2002, a series of mysterious small oil spills spreads alarm along the northern California coastline.

A freighter named the Edmund Fitzgerald and its 29-man crew disappeared beneath the stormy waters of Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975.

Marine archaeologists search for the wreck of the Portland, one of hundreds of ships sunk during 1898 Thanksgiving weekend storms off the coast of New England.

Divers explore the wreck of the Montana, a "mountain boat" built to carry passengers and freight West that sank on the Missouri River in 1884.

Mel Fisher locates treasure from the Nuestra Señora de la Atocha, a Spanish galleon that went down off the Florida Keys in 1622.

Remnants of an 18th-century Chinese opium trader turn up in California in 1984.

1950: the Korean War; attempt to assassinate President Truman.

In 1960, a U.S. Air Force pilot is shot down over Soviet airspace and John F. Kennedy is elected president.

The Berlin Wall is built in 1961; competition to conquer space increases between the superpowers. Host: Karen Stone.

The first African-American student enters the University of Mississippi in 1962; astronaut John Glenn orbits the Earth.

1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated; Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech.

Lyndon Johnson is elected the 36th president in 1964; the Beatles travel to the United States, and the British invasion begins.

1966: War escalates in Vietnam; U.S. astronauts walk in space.

Disaster strikes the space program in 1967 when three astronauts are killed during ground tests.

1950: the Korean War; attempt to assassinate President Truman.

In 1960, a U.S. Air Force pilot is shot down over Soviet airspace and John F. Kennedy is elected president.

The Berlin Wall is built in 1961; competition to conquer space increases between the superpowers. Host: Karen Stone.

The first African-American student enters the University of Mississippi in 1962; astronaut John Glenn orbits the Earth.

1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated; Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech.

Lyndon Johnson is elected the 36th president in 1964; the Beatles travel to the United States, and the British invasion begins.

1966: War escalates in Vietnam; U.S. astronauts walk in space.

Disaster strikes the space program in 1967 when three astronauts are killed during ground tests.

1950: the Korean War; attempt to assassinate President Truman.