1846 | Henry David Thoreau leaves Bangor heading north to Mount Katahdin. | ||
1857 | Maine State Seminary, now Bates College, opens. | ||
1906 | The schooner Annie L. Henderson burns from a fire started on a Bangor dock. Blown to the Brewer side, it was towed to the middle of the Penobscot. |
1948 | Birth date in Rockland of David F. Emery, Congressman (1975-1983) and Deputy Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. |
2003 | John Gould, Maine humorist and author, dies |