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Southbound Appalachian Trail at Moxie Pond (October 2007)
| 1775 | Benedict Arnold expedition to attack Quebec is hit by a hurricane for three days with floods of rain making the marchers miserable. |
| 1950 |
Rockland born poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, a graduate of Vassar, dies in Austerlitz, New York. Her poem Renascence was first read in Camden. |
| 1963 |
John F. Kennedy, first President to visit the University of Maine, delivers a foreign policy address in Orono just thirty-four days before his assassination. |
| 1918 | The relief work movement, inaugurated by the Bangor Daily News Friday, of a volunteer force of helpers to those in distress on account of the prevailing epidemic had an immediate effect, many offers of assistance in various ways being received at Mayor Woodman’s office.
Several women volunteered as nurses, while many others, offered their services to cook for those in need. |