Liberty has never yet lasted long in a democracy; nor has it ever ended in any thing better than despotism.
— Fisher Ames
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In 1789, the U.S. House of Representatives achieved its first quorum and elected Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker.
In 1865, Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeated Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia’s last supply line.
In 1873, the White Star steamer RMS Atlantic sank off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.
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