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* Monthly History Timeline * January * February * March * April * May * June * July * August * September * October * November * December On March 19 of 2005 John DeLorean, founder of the DeLorean Motor Company which made the uniquely styled sportscar named after him which was featured in the movie 'Back to the Future', dies at the age of 80 at Overlook Hospital in Summit from a stroke. In 1982, he was acquitted of charges that he was involved in a scheme to sell cocaine and in 1985 also acquitted of charges of tax evasion and defrauding investors. On March 18 of 1673 Lord John Berkeley sells his half of New Jersey to a group of Quakers, who establish the Province of West Jersey On March 17 of 1780
In a letter on this date, George Washington writes to the Marquis de Lafayette on the brutal winter which the Continental troops had experienced during their encampment at Morristown: “… the oldest people now living in the country do not remember so hard a winter as the one we are now emerging from. In a word the severity of the frost exceeded anything of the kind that had ever been experienced in this climate before.” On March 16 of 2012
A jury in New Brunswick convicts former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi on counts including invasion of privacy and destruction of evidence for using a webcam to record and broadcast sexual activity of his gay roommate, Tyler Clementi, which led to Clementi's suicide. Ravi served 20 days in jail. On March 15 of 2018
Toys "R" Us, the global toy retailer founded in 1948 by Charles Lazarus and headquartered in Wayne, announces that it will cease operations and close all 800 of its stores. On March 14 of 1956
St. Mary's Cathedral, the Cathedral church of the Diocese of Trenton, is destroyed by one of the worst fires in Trenton's history which results in the deaths of the monsignor who served as rector and two rectory housekeepers |
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