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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News and information about Maine’s 2020 bicentennial from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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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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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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The horrors of child labor is the focus of new Museum L-A exhibit
‘All Work and No Play’ exhibit opening Jan. 30 features photos by ground-breaking photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine.
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The horrors of child labor is the focus of new Museum L-A exhibit
‘All Work and No Play’ exhibit opening Jan. 30 features photos by ground-breaking photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine.
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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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On this date in Maine history: Jan. 22
Jan. 22, 1981: Belgian-born novelist and essayist Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987), having lived for more than three decades in relative obscurity on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, attends a ceremony in Paris at which she becomes the first woman inducted into the prestigious Académie Française. Yourcenar is known best as the author of the novels “Memoirs of […]
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On this date in Maine history: Jan. 21
Jan. 21, 1833: In Winthrop, Ezekiel Holmes (1801-1865) publishes the first issue of a long-running newspaper that eventually will become known as the Maine Farmer. Kennebec Journal co-founder Russell Eaton buys the newspaper in 1844 and moves it to Augusta, where it operates for another eight decades. Holmes, dubbed “the father of Maine agriculture,” also […]
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On this date in Maine history: Jan. 20
Jan. 20, 1998: Central Maine Power Co. submits to federal officials a report estimating that the cost of restoring electrical power to about 632,000 Maine residents who lost it in a regionwide ice storm would reach $55 million. The amount is more than double the $25 million figure the company cited on Jan. 12, five days […]
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On this date in Maine history: Jan. 19
Jan. 19, 1929: The National Park Service changes the name of Lafayette National Park, on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, to Acadia National Park. The park became a public land preserve in 1916 as Sieur de Monts National Monument. When it was elevated to national park status in 1919, it took the name “Lafayette” in honor […]