Women’s Suffrage Victory Parade is held.

Anticipating passage of a November referendum question that will allow women the right to vote, voted on in November, some 8,000 marchers – male and female – march through the Back Bay and downtown before some 200,000 spectators. The parade starts on Beacon Street at Fairfield Street, proceeds to the State House and City Hall, then returns through Copley Square to Mechanics Hall . Anti-suffragists demonstrate their opposition by releasing red balloons and distributing red roses, and prevail when the referendum is defeated in November 1915.*