History Fun Facts September 4th
History Facts - September 4th On This Day In History in 476 , it was the end of an era. The 4th of September, 476, is the date the Western Roman Empire ended when Romulus Augustus was deposed by Odoacer, who then proclaimed himself King of Italy. Romulus Augustus was also known as Augustulus, or little Augustus, a nickname his wife gave him on their wedding night. It was also due to him being mostly useless as an Emperor. He was barely a flicker of the man hundreds of years before who became the first Roman Emperor, the legend that was Augustus Caesar. On This Day in 1882 , Thomas Edison switched on the first commercial electric power station. It was only able to light a single square mile of lower Manhattan, but that was a heck of an achievement for that time. This was the day commonly referred to as the start of the Electrical Age. "Finally," said Edison after flipping the swit...