June 1

Have you ever had one of those days where it seems that absolutely nothing is ever going to go the way you want it to? You get up late and rush out of your home with mismatched socks. Then you drop your coffee and it splashes on your pants, making it look as if couldn’t quite make it to a rest room; you know, that sort of thing. Well, just shake it off and go change your clothes because in spite of the fact that your day is beginning to look quite grim it could always be worse. Consider that on the 1st in 1660, Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for the crime of being a Quaker. So much for that fabled quest for religious freedom in the New World.
Dyer had arrived in the area as part of the Puritan migration from England, via the Netherlands, and made a conscious decision to become a Quaker. Talk about a bad career move!