The last group of people was hung for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts, US.
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The Great Fall River fire destroyed many businesses downtown in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Twelve doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston performed the first successful reattachment of a human limb – it was the severed arm of a boy.
One woman and four men were hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, bringing the total to 20 during the witch trials.
The US used a national minimum wage for the first time in Massachusetts.
The first paper money was issued in America in the Colony of Massachusetts.
