17 October 1814 October 16, 2014 Author: Staff Beer vats burst and cause a local flood in London, destroying several houses and killing eight people. Famous Words of Inspiration..."Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs." Christopher Morley — Click here for more from Christopher Morley Related posts: 7 March 1814 6 October 1723 5 July 1948 5 July 1948 15 June 1752 17 October 1965 17 October 1964 17 October 1979 Categories: History Tags: 17 October, 1814