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17th October 1814: London Beer Flood kills eight people when nearly one and a half million litres of beer sweep out of the Horse Shoe Brewery

  • 17th October 2022
  • Tagged as: Alcohol, Beer, Beer Flood, Britain, Drowning, England, Flood, London

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.

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15th January 1919: Great Molasses Flood kills 21 people in Boston

  • 15th January 2022
  • Tagged as: America, Boston, disaster, Flood, USA

21 people were killed and a further 150 were injured after 2.3 million gallons of molasses swept through North End in Boston, Massachusetts after a storage tank collapsed.

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14th December 1287: St Lucia’s Flood kills over 50,000 people around the North Sea

  • 14th December 2021
  • Tagged as: Amsterdam, Flood, Medieval, Natural Disaster, Netherlands, North Sea, Storm

In the medieval period the Netherlands, whose name literally means ‘lower countries’, consisted of large areas of boggy land around the winding estuaries of three of the largest rivers in Europe.

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