Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease for the derelict St. James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease for the derelict St. James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin.
Once the beer began to pour into the street, it quickly began to fill the cellars of nearby houses in which families lived, killing eight people.
Sparkling wine was a problem for Dom Pérignon and his contemporaries because the build-up of carbon dioxide from a secondary fermentation inside the bottle could cause it to explode without warning.
In December 1969 the Admiralty Board, which meets in order to administer the Royal Navy, published a written statement that said issuing rum was ‘no longer compatible with the high standards of efficiency required’ and the daily ration was stopped the following year.
The last invasion of Britain by a hostile foreign force began when French troops under the command of the Irish-American Colonel William Tate landed near the Welsh town of Fishguard.
Cadets sought to continue the annual tradition of drinking homemade eggnog on Christmas Eve.
The Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment which had made the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol illegal.
Alcoholics Anonymous, which operates through local groups that follow a 12-step rehabilitation program to help people overcome alcoholism, is now estimated have around two million members worldwide.
Nationwide prohibition began on 17 January the following year, and existed until its repeal by the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933.
On the 17th October 1814 eight people were killed when nearly one and a half million litres of beer swept out of London’s Horse Shoe Brewery and formed an alcoholic tidal wave that swept down Tottenham Court Road.
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