Bakers’ Riot occurs.

Dr. Sylvester Graham is attacked at a lecture he is delivering at the Marlborough Hotel. The originator of the cracker that still bears his name and a temperance advocate, Graham is driven off the stage by bakers for promoting no-yeast bread. Baker, who also claims that shifting from eating meat to a cereal diet will curb sexual sins and enable humans to live for two centuries, is attacked again while attempting to deliver a lecture on Marriage and Courtship at Amory Hall on March 3, 1837. This time, the mob attempts to tar and feather Graham, but is prevented from doing so by the intervention of Marshal Parkman.