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Old 10-31-2010, 08:08 PM   #824
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October 31

475. Romulus Augustus is crowned as Western Roman Emperor. His reign will last less than a year, and he will be the last Emperor of the western part of the Roman Empire.

1517. Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenburg, Germany.

1861. General Winfield Scott, citing failing health, resigns as a general in the United States army. In truth, the man who had served as Commander in Chief for 20 years -- longer than anyone in American history -- had been squeezed out by the seriously ambitious and seriously incompetent (on the field of battle at least) General McClellan. The former Presidential candidate (Whig, 1852) will live to see the Union victory, largely using his "Anaconda Plan", and to see McClellan fail spectacularly.
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