that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior. Origin of indomitable.
Published: December 9, 1981. MADRID, Dec. 8â A scandal involving adulterated cooking oil, which has killed 215 persons in Spain since last spring, has brought the nation's seafood canning industry to the verge of collapse. Although no poisonous oil has been found in 18,000 spot-checks of canned seafood, consumers' confidence has been shattered.
Date: March 1910-September 1911. Location: Kern Country, California. Oil Spilled: 378 million gallons. The worst accidential oil spill in U.S. and world history occurred in 1910, when a crew drilling for oil beneath California scrubland tapped into a high-pressure reservoir 2,200 feet below the surface.