A Massachusetts lottery player, Mavis Wanczyk, won a staggering $758.7 million, claiming the largest lottery win in the US.
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The first recorded dam disaster happened in the US.
Jan Matzeliger gave a public demonstration about his shoe-producing invention in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Massachusetts's Marconi Wireless Station Site successfully sent the first radio transmission between the US and Europe.
A sea swimmer in his mid-twenties was bitten and killed by a shark near Newcomb Hollow Beach, Massachusetts, US.
The Richard Fairbanks Tavern and Post Office in Massachusetts became the first American colonial post office.