1. On July 6, 1825, the cornerstone of Bowdoin College's first building, Massachusetts Hall, was laid in Brunswick. The building still stands today and houses administrative offices and classrooms for the college.

2. The first recorded steamship voyage on the Penobscot River in Maine occurred on July 6, 1937, when the Katahdin made her maiden voyage from Bangor to Veazy.

3. The Great Fire of 1947, one of the worst fires in Maine's history, began on July 6 in the town of Bar Harbor. The fire destroyed nearly 17,000 acres and more than 200 homes and businesses.

4. Senator Edmund Muskie, a Lewiston native and one of Maine's most prominent political figures, was born on July 6, 1914. Muskie served in the U.S. Senate and was a candidate for Vice President in 1968.

5. On July 6, 1960, the first commercial reactor in the United States went online at the Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company plant in Wiscasset. The plant generated electricity for the state of Maine until it was decommissioned in 1996.