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2007 Earthquake in Japan damages nuclear power plan releasing 300 gallons of radioactive water

1994 Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa)

1992 Mobil Oil tug with 12,000 gallons of oil run aground in Arthur Kill

1989 Worst U.S. oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska

1989 Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil

1988 Barge sinks near Anacortes, WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil

1988 Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn

1985 Exploratory well at Ranger Tx, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil

1984 Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire

1984 Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire

1984 Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil

1984 Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River

1982 Arkas tanker at Montz La, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil

1981 Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane

1981 Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision

1980 Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak

1979 Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster

1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast

1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons

1976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground

1919 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21


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