Since 1773, activists have been making a splash
2006, 2007 - Members of 911truth.org, who argue the government covered up facts about the 2001 attacks, toss copies of the 9/11 Commission Report and other documents into Fort Point Channel.
2004 - Democratic National Convention delegates from the District of Columbia toss South Carolina tea into the channel to gain publicity for their struggle to win voting rights in Congress.
2000 - Third-party proponents, shut out of a presidential debate, protest by dumping televisions into the channel.
2000 - Hawaiians toss leis into the water to protest Hawaii's lack of sovereignty.
1998 - Congressional leaders put the tax code in a box marked "tea" and throw it into the water.
1997 - Doctors and nurses demand healthcare reform aboard a replica of the Tea Party ship and throw over crate marked "Nursing Cutbacks."
1993 - Hundreds of MWRA customers, some dressed in Colonial costumes, protest rising sewer bills by going to Quincy's Marina Bay to toss empty tea boxes into the water.
1990 - A peace group dumps Salvadoran tea into the water to protest the US-backed government of El Salvador.
1988 - Activists protesting the US trade embargo against Nicaragua dump copies of the agreement into the water.
1982 - Governor Ed King dumps a box of shredded income tax forms over the side of a Tea Party ship replica to publicize a $200 increase in state income tax exemptions.
1981 - W-2 and 1040 forms are dumped into the channel by protesters calling for the abolition of the income tax.
1979 - Environmentalists dump fish crates into the water to protest oil drilling leases on Georges Bank.
1973 - At the 200th anniversary of the original Tea Party, six protesters dressed in Colonial clothes board a boat, hang a tarred-and-feathered effigy of President Nixon, then dump it and three oil barrels marked "Texaco" into the water. The crowd, estimated at 40,000, cheers.
1966 - About 250 marchers dump a crate of grapes into the water to support a grape pickers strike in California. Police charge one grape-dumper with littering.
1957 - Business representatives protesting government spending and high taxes toss chests labeled "Big Budget" and "Waste" into the water.
1938 - Protesters, including a representative of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, plan to dump German and Japanese goods into the water. A large crowd gathers but seems disappointed when only empty boxes are thrown in. Onlookers sing, "End the embargo on Loyalist Spain," to the tune of "Ring around the Rosie."
1919 - Fifty thousand antiprohibition protesters, carrying signs with slogans like, "We fought for Democracy and we got Prohibition and Spanish Influenza," pack the Common and make noises about staging a reenactment of the Tea Party later in the year. It's unclear from the archives, though, if that ever occurred.
1774 - A second, lesser-known Boston Tea Party took place, at which Colonists threw 16 chests of tea from British ships into the harbor.
1773 - Boston Tea Party, at which Colonists, disguised as Native Americans, threw 342 containers of tea from British companies - 90,000 pounds - into the harbor to protest the tax on tea.
SOURCE: Newspaper reports
