** Dr. Karl Muck, music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is arrested under the Alien Enemies Act and imprisoned for the duration of WWI.

** Steve Jobs returns to Apple Computer, Inc at Macworld in Boston.

** Brad Delp, American rock vocalist ( Boston ) ( d. 2007 )

** Ralph Boston, American athlete

** Cocoanut Grove fire: A fire in the Cocoanut Grove night club in Boston, Massachusetts, kills 491.

** Twelve paintings, collectively worth $ 100 to $ 300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers.

** At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs, when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain ( the only tie until 2002 in MLB All-Star Game history ).

** Jeremy Jacobs, American businessman, owner ( Boston Bruins )

** United States Postal Service workers in New York City go on strike ; the strike spreads to the state of California and the cities of Akron, Ohio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Boston, and Denver, Colorado ; 210, 000 out of 750, 000 U. S. postal employees walk out.

** Albert DeSalvo ( The Boston Strangler ) is convicted of numerous crimes and sentenced to life in prison.

** The New York Yankees defeat the Boston Red Sox 5 – 4 at Fenway Park to clinch the AL East after being 14 games out of first place only two months earlier.

** World Series: The New York Mets defeat the Boston Red Sox in 7 games.

** Boston revolt: Unpopular Governor of the Dominion of New England Sir Edmund Andros and other officials are overthrown by a " mob " of Bostonians.

** In the English Fenland through the vehemence of the wind and the violence of the sea, the monastery of Spalding and many churches are overthrown and destroyed " All the whole country in the parts of Holland was for the most part turned into a standing pool so that an intolerable multitude of men, women and children were overwhelmed with the water, especially in the town of Boston, a great part thereof was destroyed.

** Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston by Michael J. Rawson

** List of television shows set in Boston

** The Center for Human Genetics at Boston University School of Medicine provides genetic testing laboratory service for Neurofibromatosis type I and Legius syndrome.

** Revised edition, Boston: Twayne, 1990.

** Region I, Boston, MA

**: The Boston Bruins won their championship at Madison Square Garden.

** New Boston, Rutland in Worcester County, Massachusetts

** New Boston, Sandisfield in Berkshire County, Massachusetts also West New Boston

** Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 8, 000 people outright and injures over half a million ( with more later dying from their injuries the death toll is now 23, 000 +) in the worst industrial disaster in history.

** The Ojhri Camp Disaster occurs in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.

** David McDowell Brown, American astronaut ( Columbia Disaster ) ( d. 2003 )

** Union Carbide agrees to pay USD $ 470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster.

** The Phillips Disaster in Pasadena, Texas kills 23 and injures 314 others.

** Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster

** Disaster relief

** Disaster Risk Reduction

** The Great Evangelical Disaster

** The Master of Disaster

** China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province

** Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

** Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery ( Chairwoman )

** The Disaster Area

** Disaster on Adanis III ( 1989 )

** Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery

** Markham Colliery Disaster, a mining accident that occurred in 1973 at the Markham Colliery near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England

** Disaster of the Gladden Fields, a fictional Middle-earth battle

** Green Day and Blink-182 team up to play in The Pop Disaster tour.

** New Mexican Disaster Squad-Don't Believe

** Disaster

** Natural Disaster ( Tilt-a-whirl flapjack ( Douglas ) into an elevated jawbreaker ( Stevens ) combination )

** " An Everyday Disaster " ( with John Wagner, in 2000 AD # 1309, 2002 )

** National Disaster Medical System ( NDMS )