Innocent Bridget Bishop was the first person to be trialed and hung for witchcraft in Massachusetts, US.
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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 first kidney transplant between two persons with HIV occurred in Boston, Massachusetts, US.
A gasoline-powered car was tested in Springfield, Massachusetts, for the first time in the US.
The US used a national minimum wage for the first time in Massachusetts.
One woman and four men were hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, bringing the total to 20 during the witch trials.
