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PublishedMarch 15, 2020
On this date in Maine history: March 15
March 15, 1820: Maine is admitted to the Union as the 23rd U.S. state. It had been part of Massachusetts until then. William King (1768-1852), of Bath, is declared acting governor until elections can be held in April. King later wins that election. Statehood was achieved in Congress through the Missouri Compromise, which allowed Maine to become […]
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PublishedMarch 14, 2020
On this date in Maine history: March 14
March 14, 1909: Arctic explorer Donald MacMillan (1874-1970) drops out of Robert Peary’s trek to the North Pole at 84 degrees, 29 minutes north latitude, turning southward because of frozen heels. MacMillan, a Freeport High School and Bowdoin College graduate, goes on to becomes a teacher, lecturer, researcher, sailor and philanthropist. He eventually makes more […]
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PublishedMarch 13, 2020
Portland cancels season’s first 2 cruise ship visits, may tell others to steer clear of city
The scheduled visits in late April were the first of 119 stops that cruise ships were scheduled to make in Portland this year.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2020
Portland cancels events at Merrill Auditorium and other venues
All events scheduled for the next 30 days at the Merrill, Expo and Ocean Gateway are canceled to curtail the spread of coronavirus.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2020
On this date in Maine history: March 13
March 13, 1877: Teenager and Farmington native Chester Greenwood (1858-1937) patents a type of earmuffs that he designed with his grandmother’s help to cover his large ears while he went ice skating. While Greenwood did not invent earmuffs – contrary to popular myth – he did improve them by adding a V-shaped hinge that holds the […]
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PublishedMarch 12, 2020
On this date in Maine history: March 12
March 12, 1888: The two-day, Great Blizzard of 1888, also known as the “Great White Hurricane,” locks up the East Coast from Chesapeake Bay to Maine, resulting in more than 400 deaths, including about 100 sailors. The storm drops 22 inches of snow in New York City, but heavy wind forms snowdrifts that are dozens […]
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PublishedMarch 11, 2020
On this date in Maine history: March 11
March 11, 1936: Rain begins falling on the first day of a three-day rainstorm that causes flooding that results in major destruction and damage across New England. In Maine, the Kennebec River bridge linking Richmond and Dresden is washed away, and the Androscoggin River in Auburn reaches its highest level on record. More than 150 […]
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PublishedMarch 10, 2020
On this date in Maine history: March 10
March 10, 1996: Portland entrepreneur James Finley announces a plan to set up an ocean trading route between Portland and Iceland, exporting hardwood to Iceland and importing frozen cod and lamb. Finley, who operates three Portland-based fishing boats, says his first trading vessel, a 198-foot steel freighter, would arrive within the week at the Custom […]
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PublishedMarch 9, 2020
On this date in Maine history: March 9
March 9, 1921: The British tramp steamer Wandby becomes shipwrecked when it runs aground on rocks at Walker’s Point ledge in Kennebunkport in dense fog. The accident happens that morning because the ship’s captain, David Simpson, mistakes a whistling buoy off Cape Porpoise for a buoy on Cashes Ledge, southeast of the Portland Lightship, which […]
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PublishedMarch 8, 2020
On this date in Maine history: March 8
March 8, 1957: Four days before beginning a two-year prison sentence, Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), an Austrian psychoanalyst and medical doctor who lives and works at his estate, Orgonon, in Rangeley, signs his last will and testament, creating an agency now known as the Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust. Reich’s many books and other writings influenced other […]
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