1853 | Opening of Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad, joining Montreal and Portland for the first time with the completion of the Grand Trunk Line. |
1866 | Firecracker thrown in wood starts a fire that destroyed half of Portland. | ||
1896 |
Joseph H. Williams of Augusta, Maine Governor in 1857, who served the unexpired term of Hannibal Hamlin who was elected to the U.S. Senate, dies. | ||
1903 | Millinocket Federal Labor Union, No. 11,311 is organized |
2021 | Maine CDC reports 69,474 cases, 50,813 confirmed cases for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and 18,661 probable cases; 882 deaths to date; each of the 16 counties have at least 330 confirmed cases. |