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1634 | Boston Common, America's 1st Public Park |
1635 | Boston Latin, America's 1st Public Secondary School |
1639 | Post Office, America's 1st (at Richard Fairbanks' House) |
1639 | UFO, America's First UFO Sighting |
1644 | USO, America's First USO Sighting |
1653 | Boston Public Library, America's 1st Public Library |
1690 | Paper Money, 1st (Issued When Government Was Insolvent) |
1704 | Boston News-Letter, America's 1st Periodic Newspaper |
1716 | Boston Light, America's 1st Light Station / Light House |
1721 | Inoculation, America's 1st (Smallpox) |
1757 | Human Flight, America's 1st by John Childs In Bird Suit |
1770 | British Concession, 1st (Withdraw Troops to Castle William) |
1785 | Unitarian Church, America's 1st (King's Chapel) |
1790 | Circumnavigate Globe, America's 1st (Columbia) |
1806 | African Meeting House, 1st Church Built By Free Blacks |
1816 | Mutual Savings Bank, America's 1st (Provident) |
1831 | The Liberator, 1st Radical Abolitionist Newspaper |
1835 | Abiel Smith School, America's 1st Public School For Blacks |
1845 | Sewing Machine, Invented by Elias Howe |
1846 | Anesthetic, 1st Demonstration Ether (Mass General Hospital) |
1852 | Electric Fire Alarm System (Telegraphy), 1st City To Utilize |
1860 | Aerial Photo, America's 1st from balloon by J. W. Black |
1861 | Black U.S. Federal Employee, 1st, William Nell (Post Office) |
1862 | Organized Football Club, America's 1st |
1863 | Mass 54th, 1st Civil War Free Black Regiment |
1875 | Christmas Card, 1st American Printing by Louis Prang |
1875 | Telephone, Invented by Alexander Graham Bell |
1897 | Tremont Street Subway, America's 1st Subway |
1897 | Boston Marathon, America's 1st Annual Marathon |
1901 | Disposable Blade, Invented by K. Gillette & W. Nickerson |
1903 | Baseball World Series,1st, Americans (Red Sox) vs. Pirates |
1909 | Off-Price Store, 1st, Filene's Basement |
1924 | Mutual Fund, 1st (L. Sherman Adams, Mass Investors Trust) |
1954 | Kidney Transplant, 1st Peter Bent Brigham Hospital) |
1970 | Death by Air Piracy, America's 1st, with Hijacker Subdued |