* 2011 – A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England ; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts during the event, killing four people.

Head racing was exported to the United States in the 1950s, and the Head of the Charles Regatta held each October on the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts, USA is now the largest rowing event in the world.

The event ran at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art from August 13 – 15, and featured various Wilco side projects, including The Autumn Defense, Pronto, The Nels Cline Singers, and Jeff Tweedy solo.

Massachusetts ' geographic location, jutting out into the North Atlantic, also makes the city very prone to Nor ' easter weather systems that can dump more than of snow on the region in one storm event.

Many Massachusetts camps conduct a " Magee Night " competition or other similar event to celebrate Mr. Magee's contribution, and it is quite easy to find buildings named after Mr. Magee or with plaques bearing his name.

* October: The Massachusetts Poetry Festival-an event that celebrates poets and poetry in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

For example, under the " community standards " prong of the Miller test, what might be considered " obscene " in Massachusetts might not be considered " obscene " in Utah, or the opposite might be true ; in any event, prosecutors tend to bring charges in locales where they believe that they will prevail.

Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston City Hospital took dozens of burn and smoke inhalation victims, and the event led to new ways of caring for both.

An additional Conflux-related event titled " Open Lab " was held at Art Interactive in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

TNS organizes several annual gatherings in various regions of North America, such as The Western Naturist Gathering and the Eastern Naturist Gathering ( the largest such event, held in Massachusetts since 1997 ).

Ray spoke about Time Cube at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) in January 2002 as part of the Independent Activities Period, a student-organized extra-curricular event.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts had a system for notifying major employers to send employees home early in the event of heavy storms.

Congressman John Tierney speaks at an Olympic Dream for Darfur torch relay event in Boston, Massachusetts, in October 2007.

In 2006, Perry performed alongside Steven Tyler for a three-song medley (" Dream On ", " Walk This Way ", " I Don't Want to Miss a Thing ") with the Boston Pops Orchestra as part of a nationally-televised event to celebrate the Fourth of July in Boston, Massachusetts.

Upon reading a favorable newspaper account of this event, Boston surgeon Henry Jacob Bigelow arranged for a now-famous demonstration of ether on October 16, 1846 at the operating theater of the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Horace Mann ( Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education ) a proud noted educator said: “ Among all the lights and shadows that ever crossed my path, this day ’ s radiance is the brightest ... I consider this event as marking an era in the progress of education-which as we all know is the progress of civilization-on this western continent, and throughout the world.

** Massachusetts held its first festival in 2008 with the Make Music Cambridge event, transforming plazas, patios and alleys around Harvard Square into platforms for hundreds of amateur and professional musicians.

Parliamentary reaction to this event included passage of the Coercive Acts, designed to punish Massachusetts for its resistance, and the appointment of General Thomas Gage as royal governor of Massachusetts.

At the Chlotrudis Awards 2004, an annual event held in Massachusetts with the aim to " honor and support independent and foreign films ", it was nominated for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Actor, but failed to win in any category.

Dan Harrington ( born December 6, 1945 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) is a professional poker player, best known for winning the main event world championship at the 1995 World Series of Poker.

On December 6, 2010, at Temple Reyim in Newton, Massachusetts, Priesand and the other three first American ordained women rabbis of four denominations of American Judaism met for the first time in an event called “ First Lights ”, videotaped by the Los Angeles-based Story Archive of Women Rabbis, a project which videotapes interviews with women rabbis from all streams of Judaism and archives their stories online.

Upon learning of the revolution, Massachusetts opponents of the Andros regime decided to use the event for their political benefit, and organized an uprising.

In 1979, when a vacancy opened on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ( which includes Cox's home state of Massachusetts ), Senator Edward M. Kennedy proposed Cox for the vacancy.

The Massachusetts courts have found, without rejecting the term, that the full authority of the office of the Governor devolves to the Lieutenant Governor upon vacancy in the office of Governor, i. e., there is no circumstance short of death, resignation, or impeachment that would relieve the " acting governor " from the full responsibilities of being the Governor.

Four African Americans have served in the Senate since the 1940s: Edward W. Brooke, a Republican from Massachusetts ; and Carol Moseley Braun, Barack Obama, and Roland Burris ( appointed to a vacancy ) – all Democrats from Illinois.

Winthrop was elected US Representative from Massachusetts as a Whig to the 26th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Abbott Lawrence ; he was reelected to the 27th Congress and served from November 9, 1840, to May 25, 1842, when he resigned.

Again he served as Governor of Massachusetts from 1841 – 1843 and again elected in 1845 to the U. S. Senate, as a Whig, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Isaac C. Bates.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to Congress in 1798 ( to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dwight Foster ) and then served in the Massachusetts State Senate in 1801.

In 2000, Menard was elected to the Massachusetts Senate ; filling the vacancy caused by Thomas C. Norton's appointment to the Massachusetts Low-level Radioactive Waste Management Board.

Addison had signed the appointment papers making the governor's father, John Wentworth, lieutenant-governor of New Hampshire, while it was under jurisdiction of Massachusetts in 1717.

One letter in particular, in which Bernard called for changes to the Massachusetts charter to increase the governor's power by increasing the council's dependence on him, was the subject of particularly harsh treatment, and prompted the assembly to formally request that " he might be forever removed from the Government of the Province.

She also worked on her uncle Ted Kennedy's 1980 presidential campaign, stumped for local Democrats, and was a policy analyst for the Massachusetts governor's office in the early 1980s.

John Eliot, a fourth-generation descendent of the 17th c. " Apostle to the Indians " and himself a minister, added Governor Thomas Hutchinson's manuscript for the History of Massachusetts Bay, which his father Andrew Eliot had saved during the Revolution when a mob looted the governor's home.

He was judge advocate and governor's aid in Massachusetts.

Talbot served many years in the Massachusetts legislature, sat in the governor's council from 1864 to 1869, and in 1872 was chosen lieutenant-governor, as a Republican.

In December 1692 Stoughton was elected by the governor's council to head the Massachusetts courts, defeating Danforth by three votes.

This was " Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1835, by C. Bradlee, in the clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts ", according to the Newberry Library, which also says, " The theme is that used by Mozart for his piano variations, Ah, vous dirai-je, maman.

Following the British example, the constitutions of Virginia ( 1776 ) and Massachusetts ( 1780 ) and other states thereafter adopted the impeachment mechanism ; however, they restricted the punishment to removal of the official from office.

Adams was elected a U. S. Representative from Massachusetts after leaving office, the only president ever to be so, serving for the last 17 years of his life with far greater success than he had achieved in the presidency.

* 1631 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.

In his last decade he maintained an office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was an honorary Professor Emeritus.

The Kansas City office today is a branch of State Street and is State Street's second largest US operation outside of eastern Massachusetts.

In Massachusetts each county District Attorney's office has a squad of State Police Detectives assigned to their office to conduct investigations of major crimes committed in their jurisdictions.

* May 18 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.

Although he and the very-private Rogers openly became visible to the public as friends, and Washington was a frequent guest at Rogers ' New York office, his Fairhaven, Massachusetts summer home, and aboard his steam yacht Kanawha, the true depth and scope of their relationship was not publicly revealed until after Rogers ' sudden death of an stroke in May 1909.

With incumbent President George Washington having refused a third term in office, incumbent Vice President John Adams from Massachusetts became a candidate for the presidency on the Federalist Party ticket with former Governor Thomas Pinckney of South Carolina as the next most popular Federalist.

After the election of Abraham Lincoln, having lived with relatives and friends in Massachusetts for three years, she returned to work at the patent office in the autumn of 1860, now as temporary copyist, in the hope she could pioneer to make way for more women in government service.

So that the said Aaron Lopez nor any other of said religion is not liable to be chosen into any office in this colony nor allowed to give vote as a free man in choosing others .” Lopez persisted by applying for citizenship in Massachusetts, where it was granted.

In Great Britain, Lord Hillsborough, who had recently been appointed to the newly created office of Colonial Secretary, was alarmed by the actions of the Massachusetts House.

The Quincy office serves residents of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.

In 1880 ( when it established a post office ), it was renamed for the cities of Hadley in New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts.

She ran for office in Massachusetts for U. S. Senate ( 2000 ), Governor ( 2002 ), and State Auditor ( 1998 ) on the Libertarian Party ticket.

In addition, there is a red telephone box outside the town building ( town hall / police station / post office ) in the tiny mountain town of Rowe, Massachusetts, which is an original installation dating back to when the town of Rowe first got telephone service.

Deval Patrick of Massachusetts was elected governor in 2006 and took office in January 2007.

He wrote a three volume History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, whose last volume, published posthumously, covered his own period in office.

In 2007, they moved to Harvard Stadium in Allston, a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts which is less than 2 miles from Nickerson Field and also less than 2 miles from the Cannons ' main office in Boston, Massachusetts.

To be eligible for either office, a candidate must have lived in Massachusetts for at least seven years immediately preceding his election, and originally also had to be a Christian owning at least £ 1, 000 worth of real property.