This Date in History
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50 years ago today: June 11, 1965
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Southwest Maine faces stiff competition in bid for location of atom smasher; Storm raises havoc in central Maine; LBJ sees no economic gloom or doom.
50 years ago today: June 10, 1965
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Maine’s spelling champ eliminated from Bee by slip of tongue, by jingo; U.S. ground forces can fight alongside Vietnamese, White House denies policy shift.
50 years ago today: June 9, 1965
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Space walk film fascinates U.S.; Bill allowing legislators to join state retirement plan may surprise some; Petitions in circulation for referendum on Sunday liquor law.
50 years ago today: June 8, 1965
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Maine steps up effort to get atom smasher; Bath citizens reject urban renewal project; LBJ invites Gemini astronauts to ranch for weekend.
50 years ago today: June 7, 1965
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First good swimming day in Deering Oaks pond for youngsters; LBJ urges all Reds renounce war ‘Come, let us reason together.’
50 years ago today: June 6, 1965
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Spacemen’s wives take over controls at Houston; Optimism in orbit: Moon soon.
50 years ago today: June 5, 1965
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Airmen parachute safely in Topsham air force cargo plane crash; 3 bank employees slain in ‘old-time’ robbery.
50 years ago today: June 4, 1965
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Gemini 4 astronaut moves by jet gun in exuberant space walk – America’s first; Sen. Margaret Chase Smith holds a giant artificial rose given to her on her 25th anniversary as a congresswoman
50 years ago today: June 3, 1965
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Gemini 4 astronauts are cleared for epic flight; House OK’s Allagash Waterway bill; Largest class in University of Maine history graduates.