1828 | Birth date in Brewer of Joshua L. Chamberlain, Civil War General, Governor (1867-1871), and President of Bowdoin College. |
1869 | A violent gale drives vessels ashore at Kennebunk, Portland, Orrs Island, and Boothbay. |
1901 | Bangor Typographical Union, No. 446 organized | ||
1915 | Shipwreck of the three masted schooner Lanie Cobb, built in 1874 in Brewer, stranded on a ledge in dense fog off West Quoddy Head Light. |
1958 | Edmund S. Muskie becomes Maine’s first popularly elected U.S. Senator in the state’s last September general election. |