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The Selectmen’s Building, c. 1780, in Somesville, Mount Desert Island (November, 2001)
| 1799 | Birth date of U.S. Senator (1833-1836) Ether Shepley, a justice of the Supreme Court of Maine and its Chief Justice (1848-1855). |
| 1828 |
Birth date of Governor (1881-1883) Harris M. Plaisted, a Major General in the Union Army during the Civil War. |
| 1918 | The influenza epidemic that caused so much suffering in Portland, has passed its climax, but left behind weakness and desolation. Many families that have been self-supporting have lost their providers. Others are weakened by sickness so they cannot at once resume their normal activities. | ||
| 1934 |
Birth date in Portland of Maine Attorney General, Governor (1979-1987), and Congressman Joseph E. Brennan. |
| 1971 |
Maine voters by a 3-1 decide to keep the newly enacted corporate and individual income tax.
Maine voters approve a state constitutional amendment allowing 18 year-olds to vote in state elections, consistent with a similar U.S. constitutional amendment allowing them to vote in federal elections. |
| 1999 |
Voters in referendum favor allowing patients “to grow and use small amounts of marijuana for treatment, as long as such use is approved by a doctor.” |
| 1999 |
Voters in referendum oppose a ban on what proponents called “partial birth” abortions; approve use of marijuana for certain medical conditions. |