| 1797 |
| Birth
date in Hallowell of U.S. Senator (1841-1847) George Evans,
Speaker of the Maine House and member of the U.S. Congress. |
| 1855 |
| First publication of the newspaper the
Ellsworth American by
William H. Chaney, later owned by James R. Wiggins
former editor of the Washington Post. |
| 1887 |
| Bill introduced to create what became Maine's Bureau of Labor,
supported by the Knights of Labor. |
| 1923 |
| Shipwreck of the five masted schooner
Robert W., built in 1847,
when it was caught in a northeast gale and struck York Beach. |
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