(1905) America's first forest fire lookout station established at Squaw Mountain
(1917) Maine Legislature appropriated $ 1 million for World War I purposes
(1920) Women received right to vote
(1931) Governor Percival Baxter purchased land in northern Maine; land donated for establishment of Baxter State Park
(1934) State prohibition laws repealed
(1936) Flooding caused $25 million in losses
(1947) Forest fire destroyed over 1,000 homes, leveled seven communities, destroyed 17,000 acres of Acadia National Park
(1948) Maine native, Margaret Chase Smith, elected to U. S. Senate, first woman to be voted into this office, first woman to serve both houses of Congress
(1955) Musical "Carousel" filmed at Boothbay Harbor
(1956) First U. S. atomic submarine, USS Swordfish, launched at Kittery-Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
(1957) Election Day moved from September to November
(1958) Edmund Muskie, first Maine Democrat, elected to Congress
(1961) Polaris submarine, USS Abraham Lincoln, launched at Kittery-Portsmouth Naval Shipyard; Telstar communications satellite constructed at Andover
(1974) James Longley elected Governor, first independent governor in U. S.
(1979) Edmund Muskie appointed as President Carter's Secretary of State
(1980) President Carter signed Indian Land Claim agreement, U. S. paid $80 million to Passamaquoddy, Penobscot Indians
(1984) Joan Benoit Samuelson of Maine, first gold medal winner in inaugural women's Olympic marathon
(1988) Maine native, Senator George Mitchell, named U. S. Senate Majority Leader
(1997) Senator William Cohen appointed President Clinton's Secretary of Defense
2000's
(2000) State Legislature outlawed all racist or derogatory town names that included "squaw" or "Negro"
(2007)French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, visited President Bush at family home in Maine
(2009) New record low temperature for state was set at -50°F in January
(2010) Prospect Harbor's sardine cannery shut down - the last sardine cannery in the U.S.
(2012) Senator Olympia Snowe made surprise announcement that she would retire and not seek reelection
