1775 | Second Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia |
1801 | Birth date of Governor (1844-1847) Hugh Johnston Anderson of Wiscasset and Belfast. |
1866 |
Three Navy Seaman, both from New York, rescue two comrades from drowning off Eastport and later receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for “heroic conduct.” |
1902 |
Sebastian S. Marble, Republican State Senate President and Governor (1888-1889), dies in Waldoboro. | ||
1940 | May Craig, Washington correspondent for Maine’s Guy Gannet’s newspapers for many years, attends a White House conference, lead by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, regarding Germany’s invasion of western Europe. |