** Margery Kempe, writer of the first autobiography in English

** The Book of Margery Kempe ( posthumous )

** James J. Eagan, former Mayor of Florissant, Missouri ( d. 2000 )

** Eddie Eagan, American boxer and bobsledder ( d. 1967 )

** 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 ).

** Boston Molasses Disaster: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.

** 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

** The London Daily Herald ceases publication, replaced by The Sun.

** It is announced that the New York Herald Tribune will not resume publication.

** The Sun News-Pictorial, a predecessor of the Melbourne, Australia Herald Sun, is founded.

** Norfolk Herald Extraordinary, an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London

** The Life of Emile Zola-Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg

** Glasgow Herald, 5 August 1886

** Silver Spooner ( voiced by Rob Paulsen )-A silver alien that rides on a giant spoon and is a Herald of Barbequor.

** trains at 34th Street – Herald Square ( BMT Broadway Line ) station

** trains at 34th Street – Herald Square ( IND Sixth Avenue Line ) station

** Charles Peace, or the Adventures of a Notorious Burglar – A large volume published at the time of his death ; gives a full and accurate account of the career of Peace side by side with a story of the Family Herald type, of which he is made the hero.

** Herald: Philip O ' Shea ( New Zealand Herald Extraordinary )

** Leonard Pitts Jr., The Miami Herald, for his fresh, vibrant columns that spoke, with both passion and compassion, to ordinary people on often divisive issues.

** The Boston Herald newspaper

** Jim Morin of The Miami Herald.

** Herald Islets

** Sydney Morning Herald, The Hilton bombing, Jane Freeman, 6 February 1995.

** Sanche de Gramont of the New York Herald Tribune

** One Herald Plaza ( The Miami Herald Building )

** Bob Jackson, The Dallas Times Herald

** Genus Bryx Herald, 1940

** Genus Bulbonaricus Herald in Schultz, Herald, Lachner, Welander and Woods, 1953

** Genus Minyichthys Herald and Randall, 1972