10 years ago
From the Journal Tribune: “NASA scrubbed Friday’s launch of the space shuttle Atlantis again, this time because of a problem that has bedeviled the space agency before: a faulty fuel tank sensor. The launch was rescheduled for 11:15 EDT on Saturday, when NASA will try a fifth time to get Atlantis off the ground and send it to the international space station to resume construction on the orbiting outpost, which has been on hold since the Columbus tragedy 3 1/2 years ago.”
50 years ago
From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “Saco citizens go to the polls Monday to vote on a sewer proposal which would clean up the Saco River and cost the city $700,000.”
100 years ago
From the Biddeford Daily Journal: “The new central span of the Quebec bridge, the largest cantilever suspension bridge in the world, collapsed and fell into the St. Lawrence river while being hoisted into place today, with probably heavy loss of life. Observers on shore saw numbers of workmen struggling in the water.”
— Marissa Heffernan
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