The month of February of each year is designated as American History Month and the Governor of the State of Maine shall annually issue a proclamation inviting and urging the people of the State of Maine to observe the month of February as such in schools and other suitable places with appropriate ceremony and activity. (1 MRSA Chapter 5)
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| 1762 | Birth date of John Chandler who served in Congress 1820-1823; 1823-1825; 1825-1829 as a Democratic-Republican, Crawford Republican, and a Jacksonian. |
| 1794 | Incorporation of the town of Farmington. |
| 1816 | Incorporation of the town of Wales |
| 1831 | Incorporation of the town of Hampton (name changed to Aurora in 1833). |
The Wire Bridge in New Portland (2001)
| 1873 | Incorporation of the town of Benedicta (now a township in Aroostook County). | ||
| 1894 | Birth date in Cape Elizabeth, then part of Portland, of Academy Award-winning movie director John Ford. |
| 1898 | Battleship U.S.S. Maine sunk in Havana Harbor, sparking the Spanish-American War. |
| 1908 | Shipwreck of the two-masted schooner Pythian at Kittery Point in a gale. |