Dr. Joseph E. Murray performed the first human kidney transplant at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The Massachusetts Charter was signed, which established the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
The Great Fall River fire destroyed many businesses downtown in Fall River, Massachusetts.
The first lighthouse in America was given the green light to be built at Little Brewster Island, Massachusetts.
Reddit was founded in Medford, Massachusetts.
A sea swimmer in his mid-twenties was bitten and killed by a shark near Newcomb Hollow Beach, Massachusetts, US.