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Today in History:
1796 - George Washington's farewell address as president
1849 - 1st commercial laundry established, in Oaklan, California
1928 - Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC)
1947 - Jackie Robinson is named 1947 "Rookie of Year"
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A nation divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln
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The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit
of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries
has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But
this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and
miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and
repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of
some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns
this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public
liberty.
George Washington's Farewell Address, 1796
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