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On This Day, April 20: Deepwater Horizon explosion, oil spill kills 11

On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon BP oil rig off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and caused a massive oil spill.

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