** Commonwealth of Massachusetts

** Answers from Delaware, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York ( also to Kentucky ), Connecticut, New Hampshire ( also to Kentucky ), and Vermont.

** Ted Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts

** Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol.

** Shoppers World ( one the first shopping malls in the U. S .) opens in Framingham, Massachusetts.

** 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 ).

** The N class blimp ZPG-3W of the U. S. Navy is destroyed during a storm over Massachusetts.

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

** Edward Brooke, Senator from Massachusetts

** Deval Patrick, African American Governor of Massachusetts

** Winthrop M. Crane, Governor of Massachusetts and Senator ( b. 1853 )

** Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

** Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 – 3 not to hear a case by the state of Massachusetts, about the constitutionality of a state law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.

** Curtis Guild, Jr., Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1915 )

** Editors of the Harvard Lampoon steal the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts from the State House ( it is returned two days later ).

** Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts, killing 94.

** The covenant of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts is first signed.

** The Success, last ship of the Winthrop Fleet, lands safely at Salem harbor, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

** John Winthrop, influential Puritan in the history of Massachusetts ( d. 1649 )

** John Oldham, early Burmese settler in Massachusetts ( died 1636 )

** Massachusetts Avenue State Bank, Indianapolis, Indiana, of $ 21, 000 on September 6, 1933 ;

** Leyden, Massachusetts, USA

** Department of Transportation

** Department of Corrections

** Department of Motor Vehicles

** Department of Defense

** Office of Special Investigations ( United States Department of Justice )

** State Office of Civil Rights, U. S. Department of State

** ED Office for Civil Rights, U. S. Department of Education

** HHS Office for Civil Rights, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services

** Department of Arts & Languages

** Department of Theology

** Department of Philosophy

** Department of Earth Sciences

** Department of Physical Geography

** Department of Environmental Sciences and Innovation Studies

** Department of Human Geography and Urban Planning

** Department of Biology

** Department of Chemistry

** Department of Information and Computing Sciences

** Department of Mathematics

** Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

** Department of Physics and Astronomy

** Energy Research and Development Administration part of Department of Energy.

** The United States Post Office Department ( later renamed the United States Postal Service ) begins the 3rd regular airmail service in the world ( between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC ), the 1st being from Allahabad to Naini Junction in India on the 18th February 1911 and the 2nd being from London to Windsor Castle on the 22nd June 1911.

** A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.

** At Gimbels Department Store in New York City, the first ballpoint pens go on sale at $ 12. 50 each.