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PublishedOctober 20, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 20
Oct. 20, 1860: Spectators gather at Portland Harbor to watch the Prince of Wales – Britain’s future King Edward VII (1841-1910) – depart for England aboard his ship, HMS Hero. The 18-year-old prince, who arrived by special train that afternoon from Boston and was treated to a luncheon at the city’s Preble House, is returning […]
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PublishedOctober 19, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 19
Oct. 19, 1814: In an era when Maine remains part of Massachusetts, three men representing Maine counties in the Massachusetts Senate ask the Massachusetts General Court (the state legislature) to appoint a committee to consider raising a force to drive British troops out of eastern Maine, which those troops recently attacked and occupied. The General […]
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PublishedOctober 18, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 18
Oct. 18, 1775: In the opening phase of the Revolutionary War, a British fleet under the command of Lt. Henry Mowatt, aboard the HMS Canceaux, attacks the part of Falmouth that now is downtown Portland with incendiary cannonballs and, later, militia units lighting fires. More than 400 homes are destroyed or damaged. The incident traumatizes […]
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PublishedOctober 17, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 17
Oct. 17, 1793: After eight years of failed efforts to separate Maine from Massachusetts, a meeting called by separation proponents is held at the courthouse in Portland. They hope a provision in the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution calling for a people’s review of that document might provide impetus for the District of Maine’s separation and that […]
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PublishedOctober 16, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 16
Oct. 16, 2012: A magnitude-4.5 earthquake in the York County town of Waterboro is felt across New England. It is detected even in central New York state and northern New Jersey. The epicenter originally is reported to be 4 miles northeast of East Waterboro and 3 miles west of Hollis Center, but a review of […]
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PublishedOctober 15, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 15
Oct. 15, 1952: Harper & Bros. publishes the children’s novel “Charlotte’s Web,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist and novelist E.B. White (1899-1985), who, with his author and editor wife, Katharine (1892-1977), lived for many years in a farmhouse in the Hancock County town of Brooklin. Elwyn Brooks White, a New York state native, wrote for six […]
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PublishedOctober 14, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct 14
Oct. 14, 1794: When delegates gather in Portland to consider again the question of whether the District of Maine should separate from Massachusetts, it becomes clear that this second phase of efforts to achieve that goal are making no more progress than the first, in the late 1780s. Nonetheless, the convention concludes that Maine’s prosperity […]
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PublishedOctober 13, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct 13
Oct. 13, 1950: Twentieth Century Fox releases the drama film “All About Eve,” starring Bette Davis (1908-1989) and a cast including Gary Merrill (1915-1990), both actors with strong Maine connections. The movie wins six Academy Awards. Davis and Merrill married each other while the film was in production; they divorced 10 years later after […]
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PublishedOctober 12, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 12
Oct. 12, 1676: In the aftermath of King Philip’s War (1675-1676), a large group of Wabanaki Indians led by Mogg Heigon approaches the English garrison at Black Point, part of Scarborough, while the commander is absent, intent on taking it over. Heigon convinces an emissary, Henry Jocelyn, that the garrison should surrender peacefully. He says […]
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PublishedOctober 11, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Oct. 11
Oct. 11, 1819: Representatives of nearly all of Maine’s 236 incorporated towns attend the first day of a convention that will draft a constitution for Maine, which will become a state the following March. The convention opens at the Cumberland County Courthouse in Portland. The next day, it moves to the First Parish Church, which […]
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