Video: '1974 World Series, Game 1: Athletics @ Dodgers'
(Thursday, October 17, 1974, at about 10:45 p.m. EDT) — The Oakland A’s won the 1974 World Series today, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2 at at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland, California, in the fifth and deciding game. It was the eighth of nine World Series titles for the Athletics (1910-1989).
Video: 'Top 5 Most Bizarre Disasters' (Oct. 17, 1814, at 0:07)
(Monday, October 17, 1814, around 5:30 p.m. local time) — The London Beer Flood inundated the St. Giles district of the British capital as a vat at Meux’s Brewery on Tottenham Court Road ruptured, causing other vats to burst as well and sending more than 320,000 gallons of beer into the streets; up to nine people were reported killed.
