2024 in Massachusetts
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The following is a list of events of the year 2024 in Massachusetts.
Incumbents
[edit]State government
[edit]Events
[edit]- March 5 – Super Tuesday:
- May 10 – Police dismantle encampments and arrest dozens of students protesting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.[2]
- June 16 – Seven people are injured, and one other person is injured while running away in a shooting at a pop-up party in Methuen.[3]
- July 4 Fourth of July shootings: One person is killed and five others injured in Boston.[4]
- August 6 – Massachusetts District Judge Richard Stearns rules that Harvard University must face a lawsuit accusing the university of intentionally ignoring requests for safety from Jewish students following "severe and pervasive harassment" on campus, while also calling the university's claims that antisemitic acts are protected under the First Amendment "dubious".[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "What is Super Tuesday and why does it matter?". ABC News. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
- ^ "Dozens arrested at Penn, MIT in latest U.S. crackdowns on Gaza protests". Reuters. May 10, 2024.
- ^ "7 shot when gunfire erupts at a pop-up party in Massachusetts". AP News. 2024-06-16. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
- ^ "July Fourth violence nationwide kills at least 33, Chicago 'in state of grief,' mayor says". AP News. 2024-07-05. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
- ^ "Harvard University must face lawsuit over antisemitism on campus, judge rules". Reuters. August 6, 2024.