A sea swimmer in his mid-twenties was bitten and killed by a shark near Newcomb Hollow Beach, Massachusetts, US.
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The WHO deletes homosexuality from its list of mental diseases.
Frozen food is sold in retail stores for the first time.
Senator Brooks from South Carolina used a cane to hit a Massachusetts Senator, Charles Sumner, after Sumner criticized slave owners.
The first polar bear in America was exhibited in Boston.
The village of Shawmut in Massachusetts adopted the name Boston.
