 Also on this date, 2013, in a rare and public reflection on race, President Barack Obama called on the nation to do some soul-searching over the death of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of his shooter, George Zimmerman, saying the slain black teenager could have been me 35 years ago. 2018, on this date, a duck boat packed with tourists capsized and sank in high winds on a lake in the tourist town of Branson, Missouri, killing 17 people. 2021, Paul