1860 | The plantation of Stacyville is legally organized |
1970 | U.S. Congress member John Lynch, who was born in Portland and served in the Maine House of Representatives, dies |
1903 | Ruth Moore, Maine fiction writer, is born on Gott’s Island at the mouth of Blue Hill Bay |
1957 | Kenneth L. Roberts, author of historical novels about colonial America and Maine, dies in Kennebunk, his birthplace. |
1965 | Birth date of Michael Bordick, University of Maine baseball star and major league player |