Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On the morning of 27 August 1896, Britain and the Sultanate of Zanzibar fought a war that was over before most people had finished breakfast.
The blast was heard 3,000 miles away, and its pressure wave lapped the Earth more than three times.
At sixty-nine and a half feet near Titusville, a former railroad conductor's stubborn well tapped the modern petroleum age.
