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On February 17 of 1986
James Burke, chief executive of Johnson & Johnson, announces at a press conference at its headquarters in New Brunswick that the company will no longer manufacture and sell its drugs in capsules after a fatal cyanide tampering incident in New York. 
On February 16 of 1862
William Pennington, Governor of New Jersey from 1837 to 1843 and Speaker of the US House of Representatives from 1860 to 1861 at the outbreak of the Civil War, dies at the age of 65 in Newark. 
On February 15 of 1870
The Stevens Institute of Technology, one of the first schools in the nation to offer advanced degrees in engineering, physics and chemistry, is founded in Hoboken on the estate of railroad pioneer and Revolutionary War officer John Stevens. |
Jon Stewart "I'm from New Jersey..." introduction for Bruce Springsteen at 2014 Kennedy Center Honors
Poster promoting Atlantic City in 1920s 
"The Prudential has the strength of Gibraltar" ad in 1909
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