On this day 250 years Patriots in both Boston and New York City held public meetings to organize opposition to the importation of East India Company tea. The Sons of Liberty in New York organized a huge crowd outside of the King’s Arms coffeehouse to protest the tea then on its way to New York. In Boston,  Samuel Adams called a town meeting at Faneuil Hall that elected John Hancock as moderator and then declared anyone who aids or abets the “unloading receiving or vending the tea is an enemy to America!” 

Sources: https://www.onthisday.com/date/1773/november/5; https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/faneuil-hall; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuccotti_Park