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New! Casino-Hotel profiles New! Sports Gambling New! Marijuana Resources On June 19 of 1846
The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on the Elysian Fields in Hoboken. The New York Base Ball Club wins by a score of 23 to 1 over the Knickerbockers, with Cartwright umpiring. 
On June 18 of 1898
The Steel Pier opens in Atlantic City, the first amusement pier at the resort, which later would feature top entertainers and the popular "Diving Horse" attraction On June 17 of 1879
Thomas Edison is awarded an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree by the trustees of Rutgers College in New Brunswick |
"I am from New Jersey" tribute by Jon Stewart for Bruce Springsteen at 2009 Kennedy Center Honors
Poster promoting Atlantic City in 1920s 
"The Prudential has the strength of Gibraltar" ad in 1909
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