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* Monthly History Timeline * January * February * March * April * May * June * July * August * September * October * November * December On April 27 of 1877
Witherspoon Hall is completed on the campus of the College of New Jersey (renamed Princeton University in 1896). It is the first dormitory in the nation to have indoor plumbing. On April 26 of 1979
Anthony 'Little Pussy' Russo, the mob boss of Monmouth County, is shot and killed in Long Branch. Russo was home on an Easter furlough from state prison when he was shot in the head in a room at a Long Branch hotel. No one is ever charged for the murder, but the FBI believed that the hit was by others in the Genovese crime family to prevent Russo possibly testifying about the mob to a grand jury. On April 25 of 1957
Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy addresses the graduating Class of 1957 of Princeton University, urging their participation in politics as "intellectuals...who deal with the truth, unlike politicians who deal in half-truths..." Kennedy had been a member of the Princeton Class of 1939, but dropped out in his freshman year as a result of a gastrointestinal illness, later graduating from Harvard as a member of its Class of 1940. On April 24 of 1865
After stopping in Philadelphia on the previous night, the funeral train carrying the coffin of Abraham Lincoln crosses New Jersey, passing through Trenton, Princeton, New Brunswick, Metuchen, Rahway, Elizabeth and Newark. At Jersey City, the coffin is taken from the train and ferried across the Hudson to New York City Hall, where an estimated 100,000 line up to pass the coffin. On April 23 of 1989
The Littlest Victims, a CBS-Television biographical drama about Dr. James Oleske, a physician practicing at the New Jersey Medical School in Newark, is broadcast. The film profiles Dr. Oleske's efforts to show that young children had contracted AIDS during the epidemic's early years when it was widely thought to be spread only though homosexual sex. Dr. Oleske faced widespread criticism from colleagues and the medical establishment such as the Centers for Disease Control until it was proven that he was correct that the disease also could be transmitted though blood transfusions. On April 22 of 1994
After suffering a stroke at his home in Park Ridge four days earlier, Richard M. Nixon dies at a hospital in New York City |
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