Happy Birthday William!

It's Uncle William's Birthday!!
We hope you are having a happy one!

Happy Birthday!

On August 27:

• 1859- Petroleum discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania. World's first successful oil well.
  
• 1896 - Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
  
• 2003 - Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.