** Blessed Edward Oldcorne and Blessed Ralph Ashley

** Ralph of Vaucelles

** Lynn Ralph

** Ralph Graves, American actor ( b. 1900 )

** Scientists Ralph Alpher and George Gamow publish the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper about the big bang.

** Ralph Klein, Canadian politician

** Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian immunologist and cell biologist ; Nobel laureate ( d. 2011 )

** Ralph Haben, American politician, former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives

** Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth and others are arrested in a Birmingham, Alabama protest for " parading without a permit ".

** Ralph Macchio, American actor

** Ralph Wright, Writer and American actor ( b. 1908 )

** Ralph Meeker, American actor ( b. 1920 )

** Sheryl Lee Ralph, African American actress

** Ralph Abernathy, African-American civil rights leader ( d. 1990 )

** Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver ( d. 1973 )

** Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete ( d. 1978 )

** While waiting at a bus stop, Ralph Baer an inventor with Sanders Associates, writes a four-page document which lays out the basic principles for creating a video game to be played on a television: the beginning of a multi billion dollar industry.

** Ralph Bellamy, American actor ( b. 1904 )

** Ralph Bates, English actor ( d. 1991 )

** Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver ( b. 1928 )

** Ralph Nelson, American actor ( b. 1916 )

** Ralph Allen, English footballer ( b. 1906 )

** Ralph H. Baer, German-born American inventor

** Ralph Nader, American consumer activist and presidential candidate

** 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 )

** 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