This Day, That Year – August 27

Tom Ford is an American fashion designer and filmmaker born on this day in 1961.

Did you know that:

• The first successful oil well was drilled near Titusville by Edwin Drake on this day in 1859
• Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken applied to patent the all-purpose zipper on this day in 1913
• The “Guinness Book of World Records” was first published on this day in 1955