1973 oil crisis

640-foot (200 m) oil tanker Argo Merchant runs aground on the Nantucket Shoals

Tuesday Dec 21, 1976
U.S.

640-foot (200 m) oil tanker Argo Merchant runs aground on the Nantucket Shoals, spilling 7.6 million US gallons (29,000 m3) of No. 6 fuel oil.