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* Monthly History Timeline * January * February * March * April * May * June * July * August * September * October * November * December On October 13 of 1868 The faculty of the College of New Jersey approve a resolution permitting students to adopt and wear orange ribbons imprinted with the word “PRINCETON.” The color honors England’s Prince William III of Orange, for whom Nassau Hall on the campus is named. In 1874, William Libbey, Jr., a member of the Class of 1877, obtains 1,000 yards of orange and black ribbon for freshmen to wear as “Princeton’s colors.” They are officially adopted as the university's colors when the College of New Jersey is re-named “Princeton University” in 1896. On November 19, 1969, Apollo 12 astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad, an alumnus in the Class of 1959, stepped onto the surface of the moon with a flag displaying the Princeton seal and colors, a flag which on his return he donated to the University Archives. 
On October 12 of 1767
In Hopewell, a slave known as Cuff owned by wealthy farmer Daniel Hart “attacked his master with a knife and axe; with which he cut open his skull, and gave him many other wounds on his back and arms.” Hart died from his injuries. Cuff escaped capture, but hanged himself on a tree in the woods west of Princeton, in a location later known as “Cuffee’s Hollow.” Following an extensive search, local residents eventually discovered his body and burned it as a warning to others. 
On October 11 of 1811
Inventor and Revolutionary War Colonel John Stevens of Hoboken begins operating the first steam-powered ferry, the Juliana, between Manhattan and Hoboken 
On October 10 of 1918
During the spread of influenza in the Pandemic of 1918, which had seen its first New Jersey death at Camp Dix in the prior month, Newark officials order all schools and businesses to shut, leading to a period when "departments stores were deserted, meetings of fraternal and benevolent organizations were cancelled, and social gatherings were postponed," according to a 1969 article in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. In Hackensack, the mayor also ordered the closing of "all churches, theatres, moving picture houses, dance halls, pool rooms, lodge rooms, saloons, soda fountains and other places." In South River in Middlesex County, some 400 unmarked graves were determined in 2018 to be of those who died during the Pandemic. On October 9 of 2001
Two letters tainted with anthrax postmarked on this date and processed through the Trenton post office are mailed to the Washington offices of two Democratic Senators, Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont. The letters are sent three weeks after earlier letters with Anthrax were sent through Trenton to the offices of NBC News and the New York Post in Manhattan. |
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