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What’s wrong with the water in Apache Lake?
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| Apache Lake, on a beautiful March day in Arizona.
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| Here are just some of the events on this date in the past. |
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On this day in 1911: A little less than a year before its ill-fated sailing, the Titanic launched from Belfast, Ireland. The ship was incomplete and was towed to a berth to have its superstructure and the interior completed. |
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In 1916: During World War I, the Battle of Jutland began off the coast of Denmark. The conflict was the largest naval battle of the war. The British casualties more than doubled Germany’s, but the battle marked the last time in the war that the German fleet attempted to press into the North Sea. |
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In 1955: Just over a year after deciding Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision known as Brown II, pressing school districts to implement desegregation plans “with all deliberate speed.” |
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In 1985: An outbreak of more than 40 tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, Canada, killing 89 people and injuring more than 1,000. |
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In 2005: Former FBI assistant director W. Mark Felt revealed in a Vanity Fair article that he was the informant known as Deep Throat who passed information about the 1972 Watergate break-in and scandal to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. |
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In 2019: A mass shooting carried out by city employee DeWayne Craddock at the Municipal Complex in Virginia Beach, Virginia, killed 12 people and wounded four others before police shot and killed Craddock. |
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In 2024: Donald Trump became the first sitting or former president to be convicted of a felony when a New York jury found him guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments made to a porn star. |
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| — William Cain, USA TODAY Network |
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