The village of Shawmut in Massachusetts adopted the name Boston.
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Steve Jobs was named interim CEO of Apple Computers.
The Wall Street bombing took place in Manhattan, New York City.
The Metropolitan Opera House opened to a full house in New York City.
Personal information of Ecuador's entire population (16.6 million) became available online on an unsecured cloud server in Miami.
Nature magazine announced that more than 3 million people die yearly from air pollution.
