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The United States government claimed that the USS Maine was sunk by a Spanish mine in Havana Harbor in Cuba. However, evidence points to an explosion in a powder magazine. This lead to the sinking of the ship and the US and Spain going to war.

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Internal fuel coal explosion (accidental).

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