1775 | Falmouth (Portland) burned by British Captain Mowatt’s naval bombardment of the city during the Revolutionary War. It was, to some degree, retaliation for the loss of the Margaretta in Machias Bay on June 12, 1775. |
1839 |
Birth date in Portland of Thomas Brackett Reed, a member (1877-1899) and powerful Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives |
1918 | The State Prison in Thomaston reports 80 cases of influenza with eight deaths.
In order to meet the unusual conditions arising from the influenza epidemic in , the Narragansett Hotel has been opened as an emergency hospital, for the care of all classes and creeds, and without reference to financial circumstances. |