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On this day in 1969, a river in Ohio caught fire, and it helped clean up the entire country.
The Cuyahoga River ran through Cleveland so thick with oil and factory sludge that it was basically flammable. On June 22 the floating slick ignited and flames shot up off the water.
The wild part is this was not even unusual. That river had caught fire more than a dozen times over the years. People had just accepted it.
But this time a magazine ran the story nationwide, and Americans were horrified that things had gotten so bad a river could burn.
The disgust fed straight into a new movement. Within a few years the country had created the Environmental Protection Agency and passed the Clean Water Act. A burning river shamed a nation into cleaning up its act.