Massachusetts’s Marconi Wireless Station Site successfully sent the first radio transmission between the US and Europe.
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The first recorded dam disaster happened in the US.
The first polar bear in America was exhibited in Boston.
Jan Matzeliger gave a public demonstration about his shoe-producing invention in Lynn, Massachusetts.
The WHO deletes homosexuality from its list of mental diseases.
Senator Brooks from South Carolina used a cane to hit a Massachusetts Senator, Charles Sumner, after Sumner criticized slave owners.