The village of Shawmut in Massachusetts adopted the name Boston.
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Massachusetts became the first US state to legalize same-sex marriage.
The first lighthouse in America was given the green light to be built at Little Brewster Island, Massachusetts.
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 US recorded its first tornado.
There were sightings of a giant sea serpent in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
