1783 | Birth date of Cornelius Holland, delegate to the Maine constitutional convention in 1819, member of the Maine House and Senate, and a Jacksonian member of the U.S. Congress | ||
1861 | Searsport built vessels Mary E. Thompson and Mary Goodell, and Machias-built Mary Alice are captured by Confederate raiders. | ||
1864 | Brunswick-built vessel Greenland is captured by Confederate raiders. |
1872 | Doughnut cutter patents granted to John Blondel of Thomaston | ||
1917 |
Selden Conner, Civil War general, and governor from 1876 through 1879, dies in Augusta. |
1921 |
Incorporation of the town of Owl’s Head |
1948 |
Robert P. Tristram Coffin is honored by his alma mater Bowdoin College, as he reads from his poetry and displays his drawings |