After striking a reef in 1989 it caused the largest oil spill in U.S. history
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Ten Largest Offshore Oil Spills in the U.S. - Infoplease  The following table lists the largest oil spills in U.S. history and includes the date and location of the spill, the cause and amount spilled. ... March 24, 1989, reef collision, tanker Exxon Valdez, Prince William Sound, Alaska, 10+ million gallons.
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Nassco Gets Contract to Fix Valdez's Hull - latimes  ... Alaska in March, causing the biggest oil spill in U.S. history, will be towed to San Diego next month ... June 13, 1989|H. G. REZA | Times Staff Writer ... the ship spilled 11 million gallons of oil after striking the reef--polluting about 730 miles of...
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Where Does The BP Gulf Oil Spill Rank Among The World's Worst?  Jun 8, 2010 ... On May 28, the chairman of BP upgraded the severity of the oil spill from the ... the Gulf of Mexico from an uncapped oil rig, the worst oil leak in U.S. history. ... oil, hit a reef in Alaska's pristine Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989, ... spilled 25 million to 36 million gallons of oil after striking a reef off the...
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Articles about Oil Spills Alaska - latimes  Find breaking news, commentary, and archival information about Oil Spills ... Nine years after his conviction for illegally spilling oil in pristine Alaska waters, Capt. ... oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Alaska, causing the nation's worst oil spill. ... 1989, unleashing the worst environmental disaster in U.S history, a striking...
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Exxon Valdez oil spill - Wikipedia  The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on Good Friday, March 24, 1989, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker ... A figure of 11 million US gallons (260,000 bbl; 42,000 m3) was a commonly accepted .... among cleanup crews in Alaska following the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill. ..... History of the Spill.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 50 Years Ago - History in the Headlines  Aug 1, 2014 ... On August 2, 1964, the U.S. destroyer Maddox exchanged shots with North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. Two days later, the Maddox and another destroyer reported once again coming under fire.
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Gulf of Sidra incident (1989) - Wikipedia  The second Gulf of Sidra incident occurred on 4 January 1989 when two United States Navy ... In 1973 Libya claimed much of the Gulf of Sidra as its territorial waters and ... The F-14s descended to 3,000 ft (910 m) to give them a clear radar picture of the Floggers against the sky and leave the Floggers with sea clutter to...
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Cuyahoga River Fire | Cleveland Historical  The story of the Cuyahoga River fire of 1969 - the event that sparked pop songs, ... Yes, an oil slick on the Cuyahoga River - polluted from decades of industrial ... associated with what would become known as environmentalism took shape.
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Spindletop - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  Spindletop, an east Texas oil Field, produced 80,000 barrels a day and changed the country and oil production forever. ... On January 10, 1901, an enormous geyser of oil exploded from a drilling site at ... As for Texas, Native Americans living in the region had known about the sticky black tar found in the earth there for...
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Oil plagues sound 20 years after Valdez - US news - Environment ...  Mar 24, 2009 ... Jump to story headline ... The council's findings come two decades after the March 24, 1989 disaster, when the single-hulled Exxon tanker hit a reef, emptying its ... The council, made up of three state and three federal appointees, was .... Valdez off Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound on April 5, 1989, to a...
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Historic Hurricanes--Some Of The Most Powerful Storms On Record.  1667--The Year Of The Hurricane--At a time when the Mid-Atlantic states of .... East Coast Railway by Henry Flagler, the city of Miami was at the end of its first .... Hurricane Camille landfall over Gulfport, Mississippi on August 18, 1969 with ... The storm caused some $2.3 billion dollars in damage to portions of the Gulf Coast.
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Spindletop - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  Spindletop, an east Texas oil Field, produced 80,000 barrels a day and changed ... a day, the gusher was more powerful than any previously seen in the world. ... of the major oil companies in America, including Gulf Oil, Texaco and Exxon, can ... and Standard Oil, Spindletop ushered in a new era in Texas-based industry,...
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Prince William Sound - Wikipedia  Prince William Sound is a sound of the Gulf of Alaska on the south coast of the U.S. state of ... The Sound was named in 1778 to honour George III's third son Prince William ... In 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef after leaving Valdez, causing a large oil spill, which resulted in massive damage to...
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The Burning River That Sparked a Revolution | TIME  Jun 22, 2015 ... June 22, 1969: The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, drawing national ... Apparently Ina Garten Really Didn't Want to Be the Barefoot Contessa .... fill the Missouri River with animal grease balls as big as oranges. ... per the Post, it did force cities to clean up their act, and their water, in other ways.
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Portal:Alaska/Selected article - Wikipedia  The resurgence of recreational mushing in Alaska since the 1970s is a direct .... The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on ... of oil at Prudhoe Bay and the 1977 completion of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline led to an oil boom. ... Enormous gold dredges were built north of Fairbanks, and the city grew...
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Unlicensed Mate Was in Charge Of Ship That Hit Reef, Exxon Says ...  Mar 27, 1989 ... Unlicensed Mate Was in Charge Of Ship That Hit Reef, Exxon Says ... by the Coast Guard to pilot a tanker through Prince William Sound, so his being in ... Steve Cowper declared Prince William Sound a disaster area. ... Details of what occurred on board the ship in the hour before she ran aground 25 miles...
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Exxon Valdez runs aground in Alaska - Mar 24, 1989 - HISTORY.com  On this day in 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker hits a reef in Alaska's Prince ... The Valdez was delivered to Exxon in 1986 and named after the Alaskan port ... shipping lane between Bligh Reef and Busby Island in Prince William Sound.
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The world's worst offshore oil rig disasters - Offshore Technology  Jan 2, 2014 ... The world's 10 deadliest offshore oil rig disasters ... The Piper Alpha disaster in the North Sea, UK, which killed 167 people in July 1988, is the ... flanges causing gas ignition and serial explosions on the platform. ... The Ocean Ranger oil drilling rig disaster which occurred in the North Atlantic Sea off the...
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The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 50 Years Ago - History in the Headlines  Aug 1, 2014 ... On August 2, 1964, the U.S. destroyer Maddox exchanged shots with North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. ... by the U.S. military, have since concluded that the second of those attacks never actually occurred,...
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Gulf of Tonkin incident - Wikipedia  The Gulf of Tonkin incident also known as the USS Maddox incident, involved two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. The original American report blamed North Vietnam for both incidents, but ... On August 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox, while performing a signals...
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May, 2010 - Generational Dynamics - Web Log  The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is an enormous disaster, especially to the New ... and make BP bring tankers in and clean this up, as was done in Saudi Arabia. ... Carville is certainly correct when he says that things would be different if this were ... South Korea would then shoot back, and this could spiral into full scale war.