Suffolk Downs Raceway opens.

Architect: Mark Linenthal. Some 35,000 people watch Eddie Wrack, ridden by Carl Hanford, win the first race at the new track, which is located at 111 Waldemar Avenue. The fourth thoroughbred track in New England, it contains the first concrete racetrack grandstand in the U.S., which seats 16,000 people, the largest in the U.S. at the time. Construction began on May 1, 1935, just 20 days after the Massachusetts legislature legalized horseracing in the state on April 9, 1935, and took just 62 days. The track hosts harness races from 1959 to 1970. Thoroughbred races are suspend in 1989, resume in 1992,* ceases again in 2014,* resumes intermittently in 2015, and ceases for good in 2019.