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PublishedApril 23, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 23, narrated by Bill Green
April 23, 1945: Two weeks before the German surrender in World War II, the USS Eagle PE-56, a Navy patrol vessel taking part in a bomber training exercise 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, explodes and sinks. The incident kills 54 of the Eagle’s 67 crew members. A passing Navy vessel picks up […]
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PublishedApril 22, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 22, narrated by Maulian Dana
April 22, 1922: WMB, a radio station owned by the Auburn Electrical Co., makes Maine’s first radio broadcast by transmitting an Arbor Day speech. The station, one of only 24 government-licensed stations in the nation, goes off the air after a few years. April 22, 1976: A bomb explodes at the Suffolk County Courthouse in […]
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PublishedApril 21, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 21, accompanied by David Mallett
April 21, 1951: Maine singer-songwriter David Mallett, who has released more than a dozen albums, is born in the Piscataquis County town of Sebec. One of his early compositions, “Garden Song,” is recorded by John Denver, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul and Mary, and many other acts. Mallett begins performing at the age of 11 in […]
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PublishedApril 20, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 20, narrated by Bob Greene
April 20, 1775: Sixty militiamen from the town of York begin marching to Massachusetts to confront the British after receiving news about the opening battles of the Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord. Other groups of fighters from Biddeford, Scarborough and Falmouth soon follow them, but all are turned back because they no longer are […]
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PublishedApril 19, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 19, narrated by Julia Spencer-Fleming
April 19, 2013: Associate Justice Donald G. Alexander of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court rules that former celebrity lawyer F. Lee Bailey of Yarmouth is “almost fit to practice law, except for an outstanding tax debt of nearly $2 million,” essentially clearing a path for Bailey to return to the profession. The Maine Board of […]
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PublishedApril 18, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 18, narrated by Isaiah Harris
April 18, 1983: Foreshadowing her gold-medal triumph the following year at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics, Cape Elizabeth native Joan Benoit wins the Boston Marathon for the second time and notches a women’s world-record – 2:22:43. Greg Meyer of Michigan wins the men’s race that year, finishing at 2:09:00. After that, through 2020, only one […]
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PublishedApril 17, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 17, narrated by John Burstein
April 17, 2014: Aerospace engineer John C. Houbolt, who convinced NASA to use the lunar-orbit rendezvous method to land American astronauts on the moon, dies at 95 in Scarborough, where he has been living in retirement. Houbolt, who grew up in Iowa and Illinois, was the key figure in a rancorous, protracted behind-the-scenes debate in […]
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PublishedApril 16, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 16, narrated by Lois Lowry
April 16, 1778: Continental Army soldier William Bayley of Falmouth, which later became Portland, writes from George Washington’s Revolutionary War encampment at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to his mother in Falmouth, saying he was sick with a fever but has recovered. According to historians’ estimates, 1,700 to 2,000 of Washington’s 12,000 soldiers die of illness, in […]
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PublishedApril 15, 2020
Fewer than 550 still without power in Maine after two storms
About 530 customers were still without power as of 7 p.m. Wednesday evening after storms late last week and Monday.
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PublishedApril 15, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 15, narrated by Michael Bourque
April 15, 1905: The U.S. War Department transfers ownership of the Kennebec Arsenal in Augusta from the federal government to the state. The arsenal, located on the eastern bank of the Kennebec River within sight of downtown Augusta, is the northernmost 19th-century U.S. arsenal and one of the best preserved. Eight granite structures built from […]
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