Massachusetts’s Marconi Wireless Station Site successfully sent the first radio transmission between the US and Europe.
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The first paper money was issued in America in the Colony of Massachusetts.
The village of Shawmut in Massachusetts adopted the name Boston.
The Great Colonial Hurricane hit the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Jamestown Settlement in New England, USA.
One woman and four men were hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, bringing the total to 20 during the witch trials.
A Massachusetts lottery player, Mavis Wanczyk, won a staggering $758.7 million, claiming the largest lottery win in the US.