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PublishedOctober 29, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 29
Oct. 29, 2006: Heavy wind topples a 165-foot-tall construction crane being used at Maine Medical Center in Portland onto three nearby residential buildings, damaging all of them. The incident displaces about a dozen people, but nobody is injured. The collapse, reported about 9:56 a.m., prompts authorities to close off affected streets and to reroute traffic […]
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PublishedOctober 28, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 28
Oct. 28, 1787: Kennebec Journal co-founder and editor Luther Severance is born in Montague, Massachusetts. Severance, who later serves as a two-term Whig Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine’s 3rd Congressional District, also becomes U.S. commissioner – equivalent to ambassador – to the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1850 to 1853. James […]
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PublishedOctober 27, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 27
Oct. 27, 1775: Col. Benedict Arnold, continuing his three-month march to Quebec at the start of the American Revolution, writes a letter to Gen. George Washington to report that his Army expedition has lost many of the boats that it used to ascend the Kennebec River from Fort Western (now Augusta), and that he has […]
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PublishedOctober 26, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 26
Oct. 26, 1775: Benedict Arnold’s northbound wilderness expedition to Quebec conducts a 10-mile portage of heavy boats and supplies connecting a series of Maine ponds to reach the Height of Land, from which his men can descend to waterways flowing toward the St. Lawrence River and the British fortress they intend to attack. “We advanced […]
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PublishedOctober 25, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 25
Oct. 25, 1836: The passenger steamship Royal Tar, heading from Saint John, New Brunswick, to Portland, burns and sinks in Penobscot Bay while carrying a variety of circus animals, as well as 72 passengers and 21 crew members. Thirty-two people and most of the animals die in the sinking. Two of the ship’s four lifeboats […]
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PublishedOctober 24, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 24
Oct. 24, 2007: The Navy says its Arleigh Burke-class of destroyers, some of which were built at Bath Iron Works in Maine, need about $59.8 million worth of upgrades to their bows because they tend to sustain structural damage when fully loaded and traveling in rough seas. A Navy spokesman says defense industry reports of […]
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PublishedOctober 23, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 23
Oct. 23, 1651: The Massachusetts Bay colony’s General Court sends a letter to authorities in southwestern Maine, the part of Maine that retains the name after a division of that colony into four parts, saying that the area is under Massachusetts’ jurisdiction. No response is given. In November 1652, four Massachusetts commissioners arrive in Kittery […]
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PublishedOctober 22, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 22
Oct. 22, 1886: Amid high winds, a fire destroys 33 houses, 19 stores, three churches, two hotels, a bank, the county jail and the post office in Farmington. The fire begins in a Front Street barn owned by John A. Storyell, where about 45 tons of hay are stored. The wind carries cinders in all […]
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PublishedOctober 21, 2020
Rockport man faces kidnapping, other charges after standoff with police
Police say Mark Hupper threatened to kill a woman in a Rockland apartment before officers used a concussion grenade and took him into custody.
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PublishedOctober 21, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 21
Oct. 21, 1947: Strong wind fans the flames of fires already burning for three days on Mount Desert Island, boosting the area burned from about 169 acres to more than 2,000. On the afternoon of the next day, the wind changes and pushes the fire directly toward Bar Harbor. It travels 6 miles in less […]
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