<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine" id="mwag" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Maine">Maine</a> is admitted as the twenty-third <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state" id="mwaw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a>.<sup about="#mwt62" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_15#cite_note-11" id="mwbA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwbQ">[11]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"><cite about="#mwt59" class="citation journal cs1" id="mwB-A"><a class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/march-15/" id="mwB-E" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Today in History - March 15"</a>. <i id="mwB-I"><a href="./Library_of_Congress" id="mwB-M" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a></i>.</cite><span about="#mwt59" class="Z3988" id="mwB-Q" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Library+of+Congress&amp;rft.atitle=Today+in+History+-+March+15&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.loc.gov%2Fitem%2Ftoday-in-history%2Fmarch-15%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+15"></span></span>