A very sad event occurred on this day in 1814. At the Meux and Company Brewery on Tottenham Court Road in the parish of St. Giles, London, a vat containing 135,000 imperial gallons of beer ruptured with a sound that was heard miles away. As the waves of beer cascaded against other vats they also split open, a total of 323,000 gallons (almost 1.5 million liters) of beer was released. It isn't just a pretense of grief on the part of a long-time beer lover, as the beer broke through the brick walls of the brewery it destroyed a pub and two houses, eight persons were drowned or crushed in the London Beer Flood.

 

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This reminds me of the scene from Strange Brew

On thi day in 1777, a British army surrendered near Saratoga, New York.

 

On this day in 1781, a British army surrendered on the Yorktown Peninsula, Virginia.

This reminds me of the scene from Strange Brew

 

Ha, I haven't thought about that movie in a decade at least. Damn that was a funny movie.

 

Ha, I haven't thought about that movie in a decade at least. Damn that was a funny movie.

 

Could not disagree more. Incredibly unfunny.

On thi day in 1777, a British army surrendered near Saratoga, New York.

 

On this day in 1781, a British army surrendered on the Yorktown Peninsula, Virginia.

 

 

Pretty much a bad day to be English . . . But most in England were happy to have the war end. They were unhappy with the cost both in lives lost and cost in money.