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| 1635 | | 23 Apr:
Boston Latin School, the oldest school in America, is founded.BLS tBLS |
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The "Shoomakers of Boston" along with the coopers, form the first labor organization in America.jstor IA |
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| 1717 | | 27 Feb:
A series of four successive snowstorms create the Great Snow of 1717.NEHS NWS |
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| 1721 | | 26 Jun:
During a smallpox outbreak in Boston, Dr. Zabdiel Boylston begins inoculating patients beginning with his own son.MassMoments CW |
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| 1760 | | 20 Mar:
A "Great Fire" begins at a tavern in Boston and destroys about 350 homes, shops and warehouses by the time it is over.MassMoments BFHS |
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| 1770 | | 5 Mar:
The Boston Massacre. British troops kill five colonists.LoC NPS |
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| 1775 | | 18 Apr:
Paul Revere rides out to warn the colonists that the British troops were on the march.PRH LoC |
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| 1776 | | 24 Jan:
After several months, the cannons captured at Fort Ticonderoga make it to Boston.APC AHC |
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| 1780 | | 4 May:
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences is founded.TiS AAoA&S |
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Smoke from forest fires cause The Dark Day of 1780.NEHS HI |
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| 1797 | | 21 Oct:
USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides", is launched.MassMoments UCM |
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| 1812 | | 11 Feb:
Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry signs a bill that creates oddly-shaped voting districts in several parts of the state, the birth of "gerrymandering".MassMoments LoC |
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| 1829 | | 2 Mar:
The Perkins School for the Blind is incorporated in Boston originally as New England Asylum for the Blind.MassMoments Perkins |
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The original "Siamese Twins", Chang and Eng Bunker, arrive in Boston.CC Muse |
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| 1844 | | 15 Jun:
Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanized rubber.MassMoments SciAm |
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| 1846 | | 30 Sep:
Dentist William Morton uses ether to anesthetize a patient in Boston which begins its use for general anesthesia.W I R E D ASA |
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| 1851 | |
| 1852 | | 28 Apr:
The first municipal electric fire alarm system using call boxes with automatic signaling to indicate the location of a fire was placed into operation in Boston, Massachusetts.ETHW CI |
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| 1860 | | 29 Jun:
The final stone is laid completing the Minot's Ledge Lighthouse, still in use today.US-L H2G2 |
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| 1872 | | 9 Nov:
A great fire destroys structures across 65 acres in the city of Boston.BFHS LoC |
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| 1876 | | 2 Feb:
The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, which comes to be more commonly known as the National League is formed.Reds SABR |
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Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.USNA PBS |
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Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call, telling his associate "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you".LoC W I R E D |
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Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson have the first "long distance" telephone conversation.Atlantic UILibs |
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| 1903 | | 1 Oct:
The first baseball World Series begins - the Boston Americans and Pittsburgh Pirates.MLB BA |
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| 1911 | | 25 Sep:
Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston.MLB |
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| 1912 | | 20 Apr:
The Boston Red Sox play their first game at Fenway Park and defeat the New York Highlanders by a score of 7-6.MLB B-R |
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| 1919 | | 15 Jan:
A tank of molasses ruptures in Boston's North End killing 21 people - the Great Molasses Flood.MassMoments SIMag |
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| 1927 | | 23 Aug:
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti die in the electric chair.ZEP MA |
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| 1928 | | 12 Oct:
A young polio sufferer at Children's Hospital in Boston becomes the first person to use the iron lung artificial respirator.W I R E D BMag |
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| 1950 | | 17 Jan:
A group of armed, masked men rob the Brink's depot in Boston, getting away with $2.7 million.FBI NEHS |
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| 1954 | | 23 Dec:
The first successful human organ transplant occurs.npr NIH |
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| 1978 | |
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The Gillette Company receives a patent for the erasable pen.Justia USPTO |
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| 1990 | | 18 Mar:
Overnight, 13 works of art, worth about $300 million in total, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.SIMag ISGM |
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| 2004 | | 4 Feb:
Facebook is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.Facebook FV |
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The Boston Red Sox break the curse of the Bambino and win the World Series for the first time in 86 years.Boston.com SABR |
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| 2013 | | 15 Apr:
Two bombs detonate within seconds of each other at the finish line of the Boston Marathon killing 3 people and injuring more than 140.TIME DNI |
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