How Romulus Augustulus Was Deposed on September 4, 476 AD, Ending the Western Roman Empire On the fourth day of September in the year 476 AD, a teenage boy was escorted from the im
How Spanish Settlers Founded Los Angeles, California on September 4, 1781 On September 4, 1781, a small procession of men, women, and children made its way along a dusty trail from
How Thomas Edison’s First Commercial Power Station Opened in New York and Launched the Electric Age At precisely 3:00 in the afternoon on September 4, 1882, a stocky thirty-f
The Final Surrender of Apache Leader Geronimo to US Forces on September 4, 1886 — End of the Apache Wars In the autumn of 1886, in a remote canyon straddling the border between A
How the Arkansas National Guard Blocked Nine Black Students at Little Rock Central High School — and How America Changed On the morning of September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Eli
On the morning of September 3, 1783, in a room at the Hôtel d’York on what is now 56 Rue Jacob in Paris, four men sat down to sign a document that would formally end the mos
On Sunday, September 3, 1189 — the feast day of the ordination of Pope Saint Gregory — the great doors of Westminster Abbey opened before a solemn procession that carried throu
On September 3, 301 AD, according to the founding tradition that the Republic of San Marino has observed as its national day for over seventeen centuries, a Christian stonemason na
On the morning of September 2, 1969 — the same date that, twenty-four years earlier, Japan had signed its formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay — a very differe
At 9:02 in the morning on Sunday, September 2, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur stepped to the microphone on the teak deck of the United States Navy battleship USS Missouri, anchore
