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Events on Tuesday 28 January 1969 1
1969Santa Barbara Oil SpillA blowout fouls the California coastA blowout on an offshore platform near Santa Barbara, California, released an estimated three million gallons of crude oil starting 28 January 1969. The spill killed thousands of seabirds and marine mammals and helped spur the modern American environmental movement.