* The meaning of the butterfly: Why pop culture loves the ' butterfly effect ,' and gets it totally wrong, Peter Dizikes, Boston Globe, June 8, 2008

Ruth's 1919 contract that sent him from Boston to New York was sold at auction for $ 996, 000 at Sotheby's on June 10, 2005.

On June 30, 2009, the Orioles rallied to score 10 runs against Boston Red Sox after facing a 10 – 1 deficit in the 7th inning, winning the game by 11 – 10, setting a Major League Baseball record for the largest comeback by a last-place team over a first-place team.

The game was won by Tufts 1-0 and a report of the outcome of this game appeared in the Boston Daily Globe of June 5, 1875.

On 15 June 2001, NuSphere sued MySQL AB, TcX DataKonsult AB and its original authors Michael (" Monty ") Widenius and David Axmark in U. S District Court in Boston.

Producer Kim Fowley courted the band, traveling to Boston to produce some poor-quality demos in June 1972.

* June 4 – The Boston Celtics defeat the Phoenix Suns 128-126 in triple overtime in Game 5 of the NBA Finals at the Boston Garden.

* June 19 – American college basketball player Len Bias suffers a fatal cardiac arrhythmia from a cocaine overdose less than 48 hours after being selected 2nd overall by the Boston Celtics in the 1986 NBA Draft.

* June 11 – The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, Massachusetts, fueled by ethnic tensions between the Irish and the Yankees.

On June 17, two months into the colonial siege of Boston, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, just north of Boston, British forces are victorious, but only after suffering severe casualties and after Colonial forces run out of ammunition, Fort Ticonderoga is taken by American forces in New York Colony's northern frontier, and American forces unsuccessfully invade Canada, with an attack on Montreal defeated by British forces on November 13 and an attack on Quebec repulsed December 31.

* June 17 – American Revolution: Two months into the colonial siege of Boston, British open fire on Breed's Hill on Charles Town Peninsula.

The last Stevie Nicks / Chris Isaak show was June 17, 2007 at the Tweeter Center in Boston, MA.

* Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, " Understanding Inflation and the Implications for Monetary Policy: A Phillips Curve Retrospective ", Conference Series 53, June 9 – 11, 2008, Chatham, Massachusetts.

Promoted to lieutenant on 21 May 1799, Somers was detached from United States on 13 June 1801 and ordered to Boston on 30 July 1801.

The March of Dimes sponsored five international conferences in June 1974, November 1977, May 1981, June 1984, and June 1989 and published articles from the conferences in book form in 1979, 1982, 1986, and 1991 from seven longitudinal prospective cohort studies on the development of over 300 children and young adults with sex chromosome abnormalities identified in the screening of almost 200, 000 consecutive births in hospitals in Denver, Edinburgh, New Haven, Toronto, Aarhus, Winnipeg, and Boston from 1964 to 1975.

Lillian first met her future husband Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. in June 1903 in Boston, Massachusetts, en route to Europe with her chaperone, who was Frank's cousin.

On June 22, 1909, construction finally began for a working canal under the direction of August Belmont, Jr's Boston, Cape Cod & New York Canal Company, using designs by engineer William Barclay Parsons.

-the 2nd leg will be a North-American tour to start with the Jazz Festival in Montréal ( Canada ) on 30 June, followed by a concert on July 4th at the Bluesfest in Ottawa ( Canada ) and to follow as a 10-date US journey to start in July in Boston, then to New York, Philadelphia, and Washington.

In June 1957, he married the psychoanalyst Marguerite Aucouturier in Boston.

On June 18, in a 10 – 4 loss to the Boston Red Sox in a nationally-televised game at Fenway Park in Boston, Jim Rice, a powerful hitter but notorious slow runner, hit a ball into shallow right field that Jackson appeared to weakly attempt to field.

He expressed surprise to learn that pretty, blonde Patricia Holbrook, 16, of Mount Rainier, had attended the Joseph P. Kennedy School for the Handicapped in Boston.

* 2005 – Boston – 11. 16. 03 ( Official Bootleg series )

On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.

The Boston Red Sox were the third-to-last team out of 16 major league teams to have lights in their home park.

In May 1862, he made his Boston debut, playing nightly at the Boston Museum in Richard III ( May 12, 15, and 23 ), Romeo and Juliet ( May 13 ), The Robbers ( May 14 and 21 ), Hamlet ( May 16 ), The Apostate ( May 19 ), The Stranger ( May 20 ), and The Lady of Lyons ( May 22 ).

* 1987 – The 1987 Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston, Massachusetts from Washington, D. C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, killing 16 people.

On November 16, 1959, Boston business executive Billy Sullivan was awarded the eighth and final franchise of the developing American Football League ( AFL ).

On December 16, 2006 he was transferred by the highly specialized, ICU equipped, Swiss Air Ambulance Bombardier Challenger Jet http :// www. rega. ch /, reportedly made possible and organized in a bold and daring action by the Swiss banker, Pascal Najadi, who was able to convince the REGA Flight Operations over the phone from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ( perhaps because he was an active patron of the REGA Swiss Air Ambulance ) to swiftly approve the decision to fly without any payment guarantees and assemble at highest possible speed within 48 hours the necessary flight plan, specialized doctors, logistics and Vietnam airspace ( Northern Sector ) entry clearances for the Jet to take off from Zurich HQ, via Lahore to Hanoi, then to proceed with the critical patient in full ICU care of specialized Swiss Doctors and immediate family on board, via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Edmonton to Boston, Massachusetts, where the plane was met by US Customs ( thanks to the help of Senator John Kerry ).

* Boston Circuits gCore ( grid-on-chip ) with 16 ARC 750D cores and Time-machine hardware virtualization module.

* January 4 – 1987 Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route from Washington, D. C. to Boston, Massachusetts collides with Conrail engines at Chase, Maryland, killing 16.

* December 16 – Boston Tea Party: A group of Americans, dressed as Mohawk Indians, steal aboard ships of the British East India Company and dump their cargo of tea into Boston Harbor.

However, he died suddenly of a massive heart attack on March 16, 1971, eight days before his 69th birthday, while vacationing with friend Dwayne Andreas in Miami, Florida, following a round of golf with Boston Red Sox player Carl Yastrzemski.

In Massachusetts, the Middle Post Road runs along sections of modern Route 16 to Mendon, then through Bellingham, and then via Route 109 from Medway to Dedham where it meets with the Lower Post Road ( old U. S. Route 1 ) heading into Boston.

The Magic started the 2007 – 08 NBA season with an impressive 16 – 4 record in their first 20 games, which included wins over the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers.

The Spurs ' four NBA championships are the fourth most in NBA history, behind only the Boston Celtics ( 17 ), Los Angeles Lakers ( 16 ) and Chicago Bulls ( 6 ).

The Clippers won 12 of their next 14 games, including road wins over the defending champion Dallas Mavericks and the Western-Conference-leading Oklahoma City Thunder, clinching only their fifth playoff birth since their 1976 conference semi-finals loss to the Boston Celtics ( the last time they made the playoffs as the Buffalo Braves ) before a dominating home win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on April 16, 2012.

The first British performance took place at Her Majesty's Theatre, London on 6 July 1880 and the American premiere was on 16 November 1880 in Boston.

The Boston-Newton Joint Stock Association, which left Boston April 16, 1849, camped there the night before their arrival at Sutter's Fort on September 27, after a remarkable journey across the continent.

Tyringham is located 16 miles south of Pittsfield, 39 miles west-northwest of Springfield, and 125 miles west of Boston.

The town is located 16 miles north of Providence, Rhode Island, 38 miles southwest of Boston and 42 miles southeast of Worcester, Massachusetts.

Lynn is located in the southern part of Essex County, and is five miles ( 8 km ) southwest of Salem, ten miles ( 16 km ) northeast of Boston, and twenty-two miles west-southwest of Cape Ann.