Dec. 28, 1814: A convention of Democrat-Republicans from several Oxford County towns is convened.
Outraged about the inability of the federal government to expel the British from eastern Maine during the ongoing War of 1812, about the Massachusetts authorities’ unwillingness to aid in that effort, they conclude that the only sensible course of action to for the District of Maine to separate from Massachusetts.
“(I)f we can get no assistance let us make an effort ourselves,” they write.
Dec. 28, 1972: The Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant is commissioned, having taken four years to complete at a cost of $231 million on an 820-acre site on the shore of the Back River on Wiscasset’s Bailey Peninsula.