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April 20

2 sourced moments from April 20 in history: Oliver Cromwell Dissolved England's Rump Parliament (1653); and The Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, triggering the largest US marine oil spill (2010).

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2 things happened on April 20

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2010 Earth & Climate · Natural Disasters

The Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, triggering the largest US marine oil spill

A blast on a drilling rig off Louisiana killed eleven workers and bled millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf for nearly three months.

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1653 Society & Economy · Politics & Law

Oliver Cromwell Dissolved England's Rump Parliament

With soldiers at his back, a furious Cromwell swept away the last of England's Long Parliament in a single afternoon.

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