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Events on Saturday 18 March 1967 1
1967Torrey Canyon oil spillSupertanker wreck causes Britain's worst spillThe tanker Torrey Canyon ran aground off Cornwall, spilling roughly 120,000 tonnes of crude oil into the sea. The disaster killed tens of thousands of seabirds and prompted the first widespread use of detergent dispersants, later shown to worsen the ecological damage.