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2012 Event - The Polar Music Prize is awarded to Paul Simon and Yo-Yo Ma

2012 Event - At the London Book Fair, Ma Jian, Chinese author of the banned novel 'Beijing Coma,' puts red paint over his face and calls Chinese publishers, 'the mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party'

2003 Death - "Elizabeth ""Ma Pampo"" Israel", old woman, ", may have been world's oldest but ""undocumented"" person, ", dies at 128, disputed

1984 Event - August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," premieres in New York City

1975 Death - Marjorie Main, actress (Ma and Pa Kettle), dies at 85

1971 Event - WGBY TV channel 57 in Springfield, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting

1970 Event - WSMW TV channel 27 in Worcester, MA (IND) begins broadcasting

1967 Event - WGBX TV channel 44 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting

1967 Death - Harry Antrim, actor (Ma and Pa Kettle), dies of heart attack at 83

1964 Death - Percy Kilbride, actor (Ma and Pa Kettle), dies at 76

1964 Event - WSBK TV channel 38 in Boston, MA (IND/ABC/CBS/NBC) begin

1962 Event - MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA

1961 Death - Ma Ferguson, American Politician

1960 Event - "La Plume de Ma Tante" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 835 performances

1960 Event - CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr. Malone and 2nd Mrs. Burton) and cancels 4 other series

1958 Event - "La Plume de Ma Tante" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 835 performances

1957 Event - WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting

1957 Event - WRLP TV channel 32 in Greenfield/Keene/Brat, MA (IND) 1st broadcast

1956 Birthday - Peter Teravainen, Plymouth MA USA, Australasia golfer

1955 Birthday - Yo-Yo Ma, American Musician

1955 Event - WGBH TV channel 2 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting

1954 Event - WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting

1953 Birthday - Tod Machover, born in Mount Vernon, New York, composer, innovative use of technology in music, designed interactive systems for Yo Yo Ma, Ying Quartet

1953 Event - WKBG (now WLVI) TV channel 56 in Cambridge-Boston, MA (IND) begins

1953 Event - WHYN (now WGGB) TV channel 40 in Springfield-Holyoke, MA (ABC) begins

1953 Event - WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting

1950 Birthday - [Ma]Tina Weymouth, Coronado California, rock bassist, Talking Heads-& She Was

1948 Event - "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 188 performances

1948 Event - WNAC (now KNEV) TV channel 7 in Boston, MA (CBS) begins broadcasting

1948 Event - WBZ TV channel 4 in Boston, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting

1948 Event - "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 188 performances

1946 Event - 1st artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mount Greylock, MA

1939 Death - Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues", U.S. blues singer/composer, dies at 53

1937 Event - 1st FM radio construction permit issued (W1X0J (WGTR) in Boston MA)

1929 Birthday - Ottmar MA Fraai, Curacaos/Dutch tenor

1928 Event - Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues," made

1925 Event - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Texas gov, nation's 2nd woman governor

1924 Event - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)

1924 Death - Louise MA, princess of Belgium, dies at 66

1921 Event - WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions

1920 Death - Ma, the Benovelent, Chinese muslim rebel (holy war), dies

1919 Event - 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21

1913 Event - 19th U.S. Golf Open: Francis Ouimet shoots a 304 at The Country Club MA

1912 Event - Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, MA

1888 Birthday - Percy Kilbride, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Egg and I, Ma and Pa Kettle

1887 Birthday - Estelle Hemsley, Boston MA

1886 Birthday - Ma Rainey, Gertrude Pridgett, "Mother of the Blues", U.S. blues singer

1886 Event - 1st U.S. alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA

1882 Event - Bedrich Smetana's "Ma Vlast," premieres

1882 Birthday - Ida Moore, born in Altoona, Kansas, actress, Mr. Music, Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki

1875 Birthday - Ma Ferguson, American Politician

1872 Birthday - GW Bitzer, Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer, Roxbury MA

1857 Death - Pierr-Jean Beranger, songwriter, writer, book of memoirs, 'Ma biographie', published in 1858, dies

1798 Death - Giacomo Casanova, writer, author, adventurer, book, 'Histoire de ma vie', or, 'History of My Life', profiles customs of 18th century European social life, dies at age 73

1780 Birthday - Pierr-Jean Beranger, born in Paris, France, songwriter, writer, book of memoirs, 'Ma biographie', published in 1858

1749 Event - General fast because of drought in MA

1725 Birthday - Giacomo Casanova, writer, author, adventurer, book, 'Histoire de ma vie', or, 'History of My Life', profiles customs of 18th century European social life

1678 Event - Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford

1668 Event - Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge

1646 Event - Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent

1629 Event - 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in U.S. founded (Salem, MA)

1620 Event - Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, MA

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