10 years ago

From the Journal Tribune: “High levels of bacteria over the Fourth of July weekend have caused town officials to closely monitor Kennebunk’s largest beach the past week, but a confirmed source of the problems is still eluding testers.”

50 years ago

From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “Biddeford firefighters evened the series with the Saco firefighters Sunday as they took a 16-15 softball game at Memorial Field, Biddeford. The tilt, marred with numerous errors, was one of the five slated for the Red Sevignv Fund.”

100 years ago

From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “The French continued their great offensive in Picardy. Monday’s operations again were confined to the southern echelon, which has consolidated and extended its hold upon the northern plateau opposite Peronne. The outstanding French success of the day was the capture of all German positions on Hill 97.” — Marissa Heffernan

Today in History

Today is Monday, July 11, the 193rd day of 2016. There are 173 days left in the year.

On this date: In 1767, John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts. In 1798, the U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by a congressional act that also created the U.S. Marine Band. In 1922, the Hollywood Bowl officially opened with a program called “Symphonies Under the Stars” with Alfred Hertz conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In 1936, New York City’s Triborough Bridge (now officially the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge) linking Manhattan, Queens and The Bronx was opened to traffic. In 1952, the Republican National Convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower for president and Richard M. Nixon for vice president. In 1955, the U.S. Air Force Academy swore in its first class of cadets at its temporary quarters at Lowry Air Force Base in Colorado. In 1960, the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee was first published by J.B. Lippincott and Co. In 1966, the game show “The Newlywed Game,” hosted by Bob Eubanks, premiered on ABC-TV. In 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On July 11, 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, New Jersey.

Ten years ago Eight bombs hit a commuter rail network during evening rush hour in Mumbai, India, killing more than 200 people. In Chicago, a Blue Line train derailed and started a fire during the evening rush hour, filling a subway tunnel with smoke and forcing dozens of soot-covered commuters to evacuate. The American League edged the National League 3-2 in the All-Star Game in Pittsburgh. Actor Barnard Hughes died in New York at age 90.

Five years ago : Rupert Murdoch’s media empire was besieged by accusations that two more of his British newspapers engaged in hacking, deception and privacy violations. So Yeon Ryu (soh yahn yoo) won the U.S. Women’s Open, defeating fellow South Korean Hee Kyung Seo (soh) by three shots in a three-hole playoff.

One year ago Top Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, head of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, escaped from a maximum security prison for the second time by exiting through a secretly dug mile-long tunnel (he was recaptured in January 2016).

— By The Associated Press