All times in UTC ·
Dashed edge = started before, or continues beyond, this day
Events on Friday 24 March 1989 1
1989Exxon Valdez oil spillTanker spill devastates Alaska's Prince William SoundThe oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck Bligh Reef and spilled roughly 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska. The spill killed hundreds of thousands of seabirds and marine mammals and became one of the most studied environmental disasters in history. It prompted the US Oil Pollution Act of 1990.