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Flu Epidemic Begins in Boston: August 27, 1918 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
On this day in 1918, two sailors housed at Boston's Commonwealth Pier reported to sickbay. The men were the first Americans stricken with a strain of influenza that would prove far more dangerous than...
Quincy's Market Opens: August 26, 1826 26 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
On this day in 1826, Boston celebrated the grand opening of the Faneuil Hall, commonly known as Quincy Marketplace. Located on the site that had long served as Boston's public market, the three massiv...
Harvard Awards Bowditch Honorary Degree: August 25, 1802 25 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
On this day in 1802, Harvard College awarded Nathaniel Bowditch an honorary Master's Degree. The Salem-born astronomer, mathematician, and navigator was almost entirely self-educated. His formal schoo...
Route 128 Opens Boston's High Tech Age: August 24, 1951 24 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
On this day in 1951, the first segment of Route 128 was opened. By 1956, the expressway stretched 65 miles from Gloucester to Braintree. While officials were confident the road would relieve traffic i...
Massachusetts Executes Sacco and Vanzetti: August 23, 1927 23 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
On this day in 1927, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were put to death in the state prison in Charlestown. A jury convicted them of murder and robbery in 1921, but a long struggle was waged to sa...
Jury Decides in Favor of Elizabeth "Mum Bett" Freeman: August 22, 1781 22 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
On this day in 1781, a jury in Great Barrington found in favor of "Mum Bett," a black woman who had been a slave in the home of Colonel John Ashley for at least 30 years. Listening to her master's fri...
Pilgrim Monument Completed in Provincetown: August 21, 1909 21 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
On this day in 1909, two young girls, using ropes and a pulley, helped haul the last stone into place to complete the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown. The town's Yankee residents had long been seekin...
Dr. Susan Dimock Begins Medical Residency: August 20, 1872 20 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
On this day in 1872, Dr. Susan Dimock became the resident physician at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston. Only a month earlier, she had returned from medical school in Europe, ...
Smithsonian Puts Julia Child's Kitchen on Display: August 19, 2002 19 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
On this day in 2002, a new exhibit opened in Washington, DC. The kitchen in Julia Child's Cambridge home of 32 years had been disassembled and moved to the Smithsonian. Designed by her husband Paul in...
Fans Celebrate John L. Sullivan: August 18, 1887 18 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
On this day in 1887, thousands of adoring hometown fans flocked to Nantasket Beach in Hull to glimpse Boston-born John L. Sullivan, the Heavyweight Champion of the World, and the diamond-studded, gold...
