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PublishedFebruary 1, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Feb. 1
Feb. 1, 1976: Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter, relatively unknown nationally until a few months earlier, collects more delegates in the Maine Democratic Party’s presidential caucuses than all the other candidates combined. His victory contrasts sharply with the results of a Gallup poll about a week earlier, in which only 4 percent of voters nationally […]
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Jan. 31
Jan. 31, 1945: A fire rips through a privately operated boarding home being used as an unlicensed nursery in Auburn, killing 16 babies and a nurse. Three women and five children escape the flames. The state had cited the operator for code violations, and although the operator had delayed making improvements, state authorities failed to […]
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Jan. 30
Jan. 30, 1649: The deposed King Charles I, whose forces were defeated in the English Civil War (1642-1651), is executed by beheading in London. Charles’ death essentially ends the dream of the family of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, who died two years earlier, of extending its control from the province of Maine to all of New […]
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PublishedJanuary 29, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Jan. 29
Jan. 29, 1890: U.S. House Speaker Thomas Brackett Reed, a Republican from Portland, takes action to end the “disappearing quorum” tactic used by House Democrats to prevent House business from being conducted. He marks members “present” even if they refuse to respond to a roll call. The procedure survives a court challenge and becomes part […]
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PublishedJanuary 28, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Jan. 28
Jan. 28, 1768: Moses Little and Jonathan Bagley, both of Newbury, Massachusetts, receive a grant for land around the falls on the Androscoggin River from the Pejepscot Proprietors. A condition of the grant is that 50 families live there in 50 houses by June 1, 1774. In the fall of 1770, Paul Hildreth becomes the […]
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PublishedJanuary 27, 2020
Toddler succumbs to injuries suffered from fall into pool in Knox County
The 15-month-old boy got through a gate and a door before falling into his family’s swimming pool on Jan. 7.
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PublishedJanuary 27, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Jan. 27
Jan. 27, 1893: Former U.S. House Speaker James G. Blaine of Augusta dies at his Washington home. Blaine was the Republican nominee for president in 1884, when he lost the general election to Grover Cleveland. Blaine’s body is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood. The remains of his wife, Augusta native Harriet […]
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Jan. 26
Jan. 26, 1739: The Massachusetts General Court, having received a petition on the subject the previous year, incorporates Brunswick as the 11th town in Maine, which then was part of Massachusetts. The town holds six town meetings in 1739 and allocates 153 pounds and 15 shillings for expenses in the town budget. The town’s voters […]
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Jan. 25
Jan. 25, 1953: Bangor-based WABI-TV begins broadcasting as Maine’s first television station, on VHF channel 5. Its first owner is Community Broadcasting Service, which was founded in 1949 by former Gov. Horace Hildreth, owner of WABI radio station, from which the TV station got its call letters. Originally a multi-network affiliate, WABI-TV became a full-time […]
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Jan. 24
Jan. 24, 1692: In an event that comes to be known as the Candlemas Massacre, Chief Madockawando and the Rev. Louis-Pierre Thury lead a French and Wabanaki war party in an attack on the English settlement at York during King William’s War, killing about 100 inhabitants, taking about 80 as hostages and setting many buildings […]
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