Thursday, September 4, 2014

September 4

In 476 A.D., Odoacer proclaims himself "King of Italy," deposing Romulus Augustus and ending the Western Roman Empire.

In 1882, Thomas Edison lights one square mile of Manhattan with the first ever commercial electric power plant, considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.

In 1998, two college students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, found Google.

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