Unwanted "Message" alarm on all-day events -- why?

I wish to create an all-day event with an email alarm. When I create the event, I enter the alarm title, check "all-day", and change the default alarm from "Message with sound" to "Email" (which defaults to "11:45 PM the day before". So the event contains only this email alarm, as I intend. After I click "Done", if I then go back and inspect this event, I find that it now has 2 alarms at the same "11:45 PM the day before", the email one I set up and a "Message with sound".
(I shouldn't need to, but) I can then edit this event to remove the "Message" alarm, but why was it added in the first place? It wasn't there when I created the event.

Jerry,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
I would check iCal>Preferences...>General> to determine what your setting is in "Add a default alarm to all new events and invitations."
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