Massachusetts’s Marconi Wireless Station Site successfully sent the first radio transmission between the US and Europe.
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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.
The Mayflower, filled with Puritan Pilgrims, spotted land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Edward & Sarah Bishop and seven others were examined by Magistrates in Salem, Massachusetts, for witchcraft.
Frozen food is sold in retail stores for the first time.
The village of Shawmut in Massachusetts adopted the name Boston.