1801 | Birth date of John Otis, member of the Maine House of Representatives and State Senate, he was also a member of the Northeastern Boundary Commission and the U.S. Congress |
1880 | Birth date of Carroll L. Beedy, a graduate from Bates College and the law department of Yale University, who was a member of the U.S. Congress |
1965 |
Victor B Kahill, sculptor of “The Maine Lobsterman,” exhibited at the 1939 Worlds Fair, dies. Born in Beirut, he was raised and educated in Portland. |
2021 | Maine CDC reports 70,844 cases, with 50,651 confirmed for COVID-19 and 19,193 probable cases. (Coronavirus); 900 deaths to date an 2,159 hospitalized to date (not hospitalized today). Each of the 16 counties have at least 344 confirmed cases. |