2006 Pope Benedict XVI quotes a criticism of the Islamic faith leading to mass protests
2003 United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said there is no evidence that Iraq has any weapons of mass destruction
1998 Pol Pot, dictator/mass murderer, dies at 73
1997 39 cult memebers in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp)
1997 "Juan Darien-Carnival Mass" closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City
1996 "Juan Darien - A Carnival Mass," opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City
1994 John Wayne Gacy, mass murderer, executed in Illinois at 52
1994 Mass murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in New York
1994 Andrei Tsjikatilo, [Rostov Ripper], Russian mass murdered, executed
1991 Richard Speck, mass murderer, dies a day before his 50th birthday
1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 home runs (approx 132 at bat)
1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 home runs (approx 128 at bat)
1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th HR in 1st 92 at bats and becomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome
1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in 1st 86 at bats
1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 10th HR in 1st 72 at bats
1989 Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montreal
1988 88th U.S. Golf Open: Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Country Club Mass
1988 Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour," begins in Worcester Mass
1987 Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass
1986 Rachel Oliver (Mass), 20, crowned 19th Miss Black America
1984 Ed "Psycho" Gein, mass murderer (Psycho based on him), dies at 78
1983 87th Boston Marathon won by Greg Meyer of Mass in 2:09:00
1982 Biggest mass wedding, Rev Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in New York City
1982 Steve D'Innocenzo scores 3 hockey goals in 12 sec in Mass HS game
1981 Bill C. Davis' "Mass Appeal," premieres in New York City
1980 84th Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:12:11
1980 Oscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, murdered during mass
1979 Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop
1979 83rd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:09:27
1978 Leo J. Ryan, (Rep-Cal) and 4 killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Peoples Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 members
1978 Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds
1978 82nd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:10:13
1978 Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Florida
1975 79th Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:09:55
1973 Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests
1973 The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR and moves station from New York City to Scituate Mass
1972 German mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed
1970 John M Burgess installed as bishop of Protestant Episcopals (Mass)
1966 13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass
1966 Supreme Court reverses Mass ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene
1965 Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia
1963 63rd U.S. Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 293 at The Country Club Mass
1963 Michelle Bell, Melrose, Massachusetts, LPGA golfer, 1981 Mass School Girls Champ
1962 U.S. mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
1960 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge Mass
1958 USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's
1957 Zeljko Ivanek, Lujubljana Yugoslavia, actor, Mass Appeal
1954 1st mass inoculation with Salk vaccine (Pittsburgh)
1950 South Korea President Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions
1949 Mass arrests of communists in India
1946 Mass murder on Jews in Kielce Poland
1945 49th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Mass in 2:30:40.2
1944 Nazi begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz
1943 Seyss-Inquart orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians
1943 Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn
1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire kills 602 (Boston Mass)
1942 46th Boston Marathon won by Joe Smith of Mass in 2:26:51.2
1941 Richard Speck, mass murderer, killed 8 student nurses in 1966
1941 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe
1941 1st mass deportation of Kowno, Lodz, Minsk and Riga
1941 Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union
1941 Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)
1941 Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia
1941 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania
1939 Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
1939 Albert Fish, mass murderer, executed
1938 GM began mass production of diesel engines
1936 Joan Kennedy, 1st wife of Mass Senator, Ted
1935 Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews
1935 39th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Mass in 2:32:07.4
1934 1st youth hostel in U.S. opens (Northfield, Mass)
1933 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-29), dies in Mass at 60
1932 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass
1931 35th Boston Marathon won by Jim Henigan of Mass in 2:46:45.8
1930 34th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:34:48.2
1928 32nd Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:37:07.8
1927 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Mass
1927 1st Ryder Cup: U.S. beats England, 9 -2 at Worcester CC Mass
1927 31st Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:40:22.2
1925 Robert Francis Kennedy, Brookline, Mass, D-Sen-NY, AG; assassinated
1925 29th U.S. Golf Open: Willie Macfarlane shoots a 291 at Worcester CC Mass
1925 Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg
1924 28th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:29:40.2
1924 Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US
1923 1st permanent radio network-AT&T (WEAF New York and WMAF Mass)
1923 27th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:23:37.4
1923 Mass arrests in U.S. of mafia
1923 Mass arrests of socialists and communists in Italy
1922 26th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:18:10
1920 1st U.S. indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Mass)
1919 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money
1919 23rd U.S. Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Brae Burn CC Mass
1919 23rd Boston Marathon won by Carl Linder of Mass in 2:29:13.4
1916 20th Boston Marathon won by Arthur Roth of Mass in 2:27:16.4
1915 Pol Pot, dictator/mass murderer
1911 15th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:21:39.6
1910 Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (1st state fair)
1908 14th U.S. Golf Open: Fred McLeod shoots a 322 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass
1906 Reginald A Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio (Mass)
1906 10th Boston Marathon won by Tim Ford of Mass in 2:45:45
1905 11th U.S. Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 314 at Myopia Club Mass
1903 7th Boston Marathon won by John Lorden of Mass in 2:41:29.8
1901 Peter Benoit, Flemish composer and conductor (High Mass), dies at 66
1899 3rd Boston Marathon won by Lawrence Brignolia of Mass in 2:54:38
1898 Paul Voulet, French captain/mass murderer in Senegal, dies
1898 Charles Chanoine, French lt/mass murderer in Senegal, dies
1898 4th U.S. Golf Open: Fred Herd shoots a 328 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass
1898 2nd Boston Marathon won by Ron McDonald of Mass in 2:42:00
1898 John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding and gumming mach (Mass)
1895 George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
1893 Lizzie Borden acquitted in murder of parents in New Bedford Mass
1893 Francis Quimet, Mass shop asst who won golf's U.S. Open, 1913
1892 Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass
1892 Andrew and Abby Borden, axed to death in Mass (by Lizzie Borden?)
1892 Charles Duryea takes 1st American-made auto out for a spin (Mass)
1892 1st basketball game played (Mass)
1892 Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass
1885 1st mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Massachusetts)
1885 Jan Matzeliger begins 1st mass production of shoes
1882 Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans
1881 Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr. (Cambridge, Mass)
1877 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston and Salem, Mass
1876 Daniel Stillson (Mass) patents 1st practical pipe wrench
1876 1st free kindergarten in U.S. opens in Florence, Mass
1874 1st recorded dam disaster in U.S. (Williamsburg Mass)
1870 Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary
1866 Indelible pencil patents by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass
1865 James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st U.S. coffee percolator
1863 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War
1863 War Department authorizes Mass governor to recruit black troops
1856 Violence in Senate, South Carolina rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner
1855 Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass patents 1st calliope
1853 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester, Mass
1850 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass
1846 1st U.S. woman telegrapher, Sarah G. Bagley, Lowell, Mass
1844 Charles Bulfinch, 1st U.S. pro architect (Mass State House), dies at 80
1843 Manila paper (made from sails, canvas and rope) patented, Mass
1843 Preacher William Miller of Mass predicts the world will end today
1842 1st U.S. child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)
1838 Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class
1827 1st U.S. swim school opens (Boston Mass)
1787 Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Capt Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass
1786 Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass
1785 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks
1778 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass
1775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
1774 Mass militiamen successfully attacked arsenal of Ft. William and Mary
1765 Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)
1763 Charles Bulfinch, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1st U.S. pro architect, Mass State House
1755 Worst quake in Mass Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths report
1753 Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slave holder in Framingham Mass
1735 Evening Post begins publishing (Boston Mass)
1732 1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, Philadelphia
1732 Mass celebrated for 1st time at St. Joseph's Church (Phila)
1708 Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French and Indians
1700 Mass orders priest to leave the colony
1692 Last (8) person hanged for witchcraft in U.S. (Salem Mass)
1692 5 women executed for witchcraft in Salem Mass
1690 Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money
1690 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)
1676 1st colonial prision organized, Nantucket Mass
1676 Sudbury, Mass attacked by Indians
1676 Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass
1672 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in U.S. held, Sandwich, Mass
1668 Mass society storms palace of "heretics" Spanish Governor Jose de Paternina
1657 William Bradford, Governor (Plymouth Colony, Mass), dies
1654 Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals
1652 John Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68
1649 John Winthrop, 1st governor Mass Bay Colony, dies at 61
1649 John Winthrop, Puritan and 1st Governor (Mass), dies
1647 Achsah Young, 1st woman known to be a witch, executed in Salem Mass
1646 Mass uses death penalty for denying that Saint Copybook is God's word
1646 Roger Scott was tried in Mass for sleeping in church
1641 Mass becomes 1st colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
1640 Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin
1638 1st earthquake recorded in U.S., at Plymouth, Mass
1638 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony
1637 Anne Hutchinson banished from Mass bay colony as a heretic
1636 Harvard University (Cambridge Mass) founded
1635 Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
1630 Mass village of Shawmut changes name to Boston
1629 Cambridge Agreement, Mass Bay Co stockholders agree to emigrate
1628 Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle
1628 1st deportation from what is now U.S., Thomas Morton from Mass
1628 Meiboom in Quincy Mass) degenerates into orgy with indian women
1621 Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth Mass
1620 Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass
1588 John Winthrop, English attorney/puritan/1st Governor of Mass
1588 John Winthrop, 1st governor, Mass Bay Colony
1584 John Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony
1377 Mass execution of population of Cesena Italy
390 Roman emperor Theodosius admits debt on mass murder in Thessalonica
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