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[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: On this day, August 27, 1859, Edwin Drake's oil well near Titusville, Pennsylvania struck oil.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The well was not especially deep by modern standards, but it became one of the starting points of the American Petroleum Industry.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Drake's method showed that oil could be drilled from the ground in a practical way, helping fuel a new industry built around caracene machinery and later automobiles.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The discovery changed energy, transportation, business, and the environment in ways that reached far beyond Pennsylvania.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Also on this day, August 27th, 1896, the Anglo-Sansibar War was fought, lasting less than an hour and becoming known as the shortest war in recorded history.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Also on this day, August 27th, 1955.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records was published in Britain.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Beginning will became one of the world's most famous reference books.