Massachusetts became the first US state to legalize same-sex marriage.
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The WHO deletes homosexuality from its list of mental diseases.
Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, arrived from England in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to become a minister in a Boston church.
The Richard Fairbanks Tavern and Post Office in Massachusetts became the first American colonial post office.
The US recorded its first tornado.
Senator Brooks from South Carolina used a cane to hit a Massachusetts Senator, Charles Sumner, after Sumner criticized slave owners.
