This Day in History, 1919: Great Boston Molasses Flood

[mabfan]

Today is the 97th anniversary of:

THE GREAT BOSTON MOLASSES FLOOD

"Shortly after noon on January 15, 1919, a fifty-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed on Boston’s waterfront, disgorging its contents in a fifteen-foot-high wave of molasses that traveled at thirty-five miles per hour. When the tide receded, a

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[xiphias]

My grandmother says that you could still smell the molasses on hot summer days when she was a girl, twenty years after the event.