10 years ago

From the Journal Tribune: “With the healthcare workforce shortage affecting everyone in Maine, the University of New England is working with other healthcare organizations to address the problems. The university was one of three parties that collaborated to produce the ‘Three Papers,’ a report on three studies conducted to address healthcare issues in Maine.”

50 years ago

From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “Federal aid for basic adult education under Title II-B of the Economic Opportunity Act has been received by Biddeford amounting to $13,410. … The city’s share of the total cost is ten per cent.”

100 years ago

From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “There is no end to the complaints about the new night hunting law, which is meeting with much disapproval among the sporting fraternity as it interferes with the working man going out and shooting game after a certain hour. Trapping is practically out of the question according to the new law but it will be very difficult, it is thought, for the state wardens to patrol all the streams and oblige trappers to take in their ‘steels’ at sunset and not to re-set them until sunrise.” — Jeff Lagasse

Today in History

Today is Friday, Nov. 6, the 310th day of 2015. There are 55 days left in the year.

On this date: In 1632, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was killed in battle. In 1854, America’s “March King,” John Philip Sousa, was born in Washington, D.C. In 1861, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term of office. In 1928, in a first, the results of Republican Herbert Hoover’s presidential election victory over Democrat Alfred E. Smith were flashed onto an electric wraparound sign on the New York Times building. In 1934, Nebraska voters approved dissolving their twochamber legislature in favor of a nonpartisan, single (or “unicameral”) legislative body, which was implemented in 1937. In 1944, British official Lord Moyne was assassinated in Cairo, Egypt, by members of the Zionist Stern gang. In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower won re-election, defeating Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the presidency: John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas.

Ten years ago An overnight tornado killed 25 people in southwestern Indiana. In a clear jab at Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, President George W. Bush, in Brazil, called on Latin Americans to boldly defend strong democratic institutions. French President Jacques Chirac promised arrests, trials and punishment in the wake of urban unrest that had spread to central Paris.

Five years ago President Barack Obama opened his 10-day Asia trip on a somber note in Mumbai, India, where he memorialized victims of devastating terror attacks two years earlier, declaring, “We’ll never forget.” A Yemeni judge ordered police to find Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical U.S.-born cleric, “dead or alive” after the al-Qaida-linked preacher failed to appear at his trial for his role in the killing of foreigners. (Al-Awlaki was killed in a U.S. drone strike in the mountains of Yemen on Sept. 30, 2011.)

One year ago The march toward same-sex marriage across the U.S. hit a roadblock when a federal appeals court upheld laws against the practice in four states: Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee. (A divided U.S. Supreme Court overturned the laws in June 2015.) — By The Associated Press