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Titanic located

Sept. 1, 1985 — A U.S.-French expedition located the wreckage of the Titanic on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean roughly 400 miles off Newfoundland.

Highway fatalities grow

Sept. 1, 1953 — A public service ad campaign noted that 290 people were being killed and more than 13,600 injured nationally on an average weekend, so Montana newspapers warned, “Slow Down! The Life You Save May Be Your Own.”

Sources: Associated Press, Montana Historical Society