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On this day, April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_20• 2010 – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.