1992 Taylor Maine Pearl Brooks, daughter of country singer Garth Brooks
1991 Longest NCAA football game (3:52) as RI beats Maine 52-30 (6 OTs)
1987 Heavy snow closes schools from Washington D.C. to Maine
1987 New Jersey Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) NY
1983 Last hand-cranked telephones U.S. went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial
1983 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for U.S.S.R.
1983 New Jersey Devils purchase AHL Maine Mariners as their farm team
1980 Crystal Carlson, Miss Maine Teen USA 1997
1979 Laura Larson, Miss Maine Teen USA 1996
1976 Sarah Nadeau, Portland Maine, Miss America-Maine 1997
1975 James A. Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)
1974 Sharon Pelletier, Madawaska Maine, Miss America-Maine 1996
1972 Chris Imes, South Paris Maine, U.S. hockey defenseman 1994 Olympics
1972 Julann Vadnais, Miss Maine USA 1996
1969 Cecile Ulbrich Tucker, Warren, Maine, rower 1996 Olympics
1967 Mark Zollitsch, Orono Maine, kayak alternate for 1996 Olympics
1965 Tammy Jacques, Auburn Maine, cyclist 1996 Olympics
1964 Ann Rowe, Auburn Maine, Miss Maine-America 1991
1960 Victoria Rowell, Portland, Maine, actress, Drucilla-Young and Restless
1956 Tawny Elaine Godin Schneider, Maine, Miss Amer, 76, /, Eye on Hollywood
1955 Peter Boynton, Danaiscotta Maine, actor, Tonio-As the World Turns
1954 20.4 cm rainfall at Brunswick, Maine (state record)
1947 Maine Turnpike opens to traffic
1946 Al Couture knockouts Ralph Walton in Lewiston Maine in 10 secs
1941 Buffy Sainte-Marie, Maine, folksinger, Now That the Buffalo Are Gone
1940 William S Cohen, Sen-R Maine, 1979-
1937 Linda Lavin, Portland Maine, actress, Alice, Barney Miller
1929 Acadia National Park, Maine established
1928 1st internationsl dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Que
1925 -48 degrees F (-44 degrees C), Van Buren, Maine (state record)
1924 Robert A Rushworth, Madison Maine, test pilot, X-15
1921 Phyllis Thaxter, Portland Maine, actress, Nora, Ft. Worth
1921 Jeff Donnell, born in South Windham, Maine, actor, Gidget Goes to Rome
1919 Acadia National Park forms (as Lafayette N P), Maine
1913 Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic)
1912 Reta Shaw, South Paris Maine, actress, Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1911 105 degrees F (41 degrees C) at North Bridgton, Maine (state record)
1905 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Maine
1904 Gladys George, Patten Maine, actress, Roaring Twenties
1899 Charles H Best, Maine, physiologist/co-discoverer, Insulin
1898 William O Douglas, Maine, 81st Supreme Court justice, 1939-75
1898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown, 258 sailors die
1897 Louise Bogan, Maine, writer, Sleeping Fury
1895 Paul White, Bangor Maine, composer, Adante and Rondo for Cello
1895 John Ford, Maine, director, Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man
1894 Walter Hamor Piston, Rockland Maine, composer, Incredible Flutis
1888 Henry James Sumner Maine, English Historian
1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs
1876 Sardines 1st canned by Julius Wolff-Eastport, Maine
1853 Completion of Grand Trunk Line, trains begin running over 1st North American railroad between Portland, Maine and Montreal
1851 1st U.S. alcohol prohibition law enacted, Maine
1849 Sarah Orne Jewett, born in Maine, author, Country of the Pointed Firs
1843 1st Catholic governor in U.S., Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
1839 Aroostock War: Boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick
1839 John Knowles Paine, Portland Maine, composer
1837 Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine
1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine
1822 Henry James Sumner Maine, English Historian
1820 Maine admitted as 23rd state
1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, born in Portland, Maine, poet, Hiawatha
1805 30 women meet at Mrs. Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset Maine, organizes
1775 Portland, Maine burned by British
1691 New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth
1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
1642 Georgeana (York) Maine became the 1st incorporated American city
1634 U.S. colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony
1622 County Maine appended on John Mason/Fernandino Gorges
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