1774 | First Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia |
1813 | Capture of the British brig Boxer by the American brig Enterprise off Portland during the War of 1812. |
1905 | Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese War, is signed at the Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard in Kittery. |
1918 | Shipwreck of the two-masted schooner Herman F. Kimball on Long Point on Cape Elizabeth. Most of its cargo of lumber was saved but not the ship. |
1924 | The “United State Army Round the World Aviators after starting westward from Seattle, Washington April 6, 1924 made their first landing on the soil of the United States.” Quote from a bronze tablet erected at Mere Point in Brunswick where that landing took place, according to the Kennebec Journal of June 8, 1925. |