History, News and Stories of New Jersey, USA

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• 1776 - New Jersey adopted first state constitution; George Washington crossed Delaware River from Pennsylvania in surprise attack on British; Washington defeated British at Battle of Trenton
  
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• 1776 - State laws in New Jersey allow women to vote.
  
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• 1787 - New Jersey became third U.S. state
  
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• 1790 - Trenton declared state capital; New Jersey first state to sign Bill of Rights
  
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• 1807 - New Jersey restricts the right to vote to white men.
  
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• The tomato was put “on trial” on September 25, 1820, in Salem, New Jersey.
  In front of a courthouse, Robert Johnson ate a basket of tomatoes to prove they were not poisonous. The crowd waited for him to keel over dead. He... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1854 - April 16 – The United States packet ship Powhattan is wrecked off the New Jersey shore with more than 200 + victims.
  
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  April 16, 1854
  
• 1858 - Dinosaur Fossil Found
  The first nearly complete dinosaur fossil is found in Haddonfield, New Jersery.
  
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•   1879 - December 31 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
  
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  December 31, 1879
  
• 1895 - New Jersey
  New Jersey, jer'zee, one of the Atlantic states of the American Union, bounded N. and N.E. by New York, E. by New York and the Atlantic, S. by the... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1918 - October 4 - The T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion in New Jersey kills 100+ and destroys enough ammunition to supply the Western Front for 6 months.
  
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  October 4, 1918
  
•   1923 - September 4 – In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first American airship, USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), takes to the sky for the first time.
  
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  September 4, 1923
  
•   1926 - July 10 - A lightning bolt struck an ammunition magazine in northern New Jersey, and a big red ball of fire leaped into the air triggering a series of explosions.
  All buildings within a half mile radius were destroyed, and debris fell as far as twenty-two miles away. Sixteen persons were killed, and property... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1927 - November 12 - The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River linking New Jersey with New York City.
  
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  November 12, 1927
  
•   1931 - October 18 - Thomas Edison dies in West Orange, New Jersey, USA
  October 18, 1931
  
•   1933 - October 17 – Scientist Albert Einstein arrives in the United States where he settles permanently as a refugee from Nazi Germany and takes up a position at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.
  
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  October 17, 1933
  
•   1934 - September 8 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner S.S. Morro Castle kills 134 people.
  
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  September 8, 1934
  
•   1935 - January 3 – The trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, accused of the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., begins in Flemington, New Jersey.
  
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  January 3, 1935
  
• 1937 - May 6 – Hindenburg disaster:
  In the United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Of the 36 passengers and 61... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1938 - Orson Welles produced War of the World radio broadcast resulting in widespread panic
  
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• 1951 - New Jersey Turnpike opened
  
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