Sixty years ago today actor James Dean, 24, was killed in a two-car collision near Cholame, California.

On this day in history, John G. Roberts Jr. was sworn in as the nation’s 17th chief justice after winning Senate confirmation, Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment, and Canada joined the space age as it launched the Alouette 1 satellite.

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Mill fire at Strong – 40 flee, 4 hurt; Space docking test total failure, Gemini 6 mission off for 1965

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Sen. Fulbright warns against power of Defense department; Maine Medical Center setting up a clinic for those with the ‘dread disease of royalty’

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Portland families relieved to learn that dolls sent from Viet Nam not full of Viet Cong explosives; Maine Power Association backs large nuclear reactor in York County

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Klansman found innocent of murdering a white civil rights worker who was shot while driving a black marcher back after the Selma-to-Montgomery march

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Informer fingers Wilkins as slayer of Mrs. Liuzzo; Maine Gov. John Reed, chairman of the national governor’s conference meets with Japanese prime minister in Tokyo

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The controversial Dickey-Lincoln School federal hydroelectric power project on Maine’s St. John River receives final congressional approval