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On May 21 of 1666
A group of Puritans from the Connecticut colony led by Captain Robert Treat land on the banks of the Passaic River, later establishing a settlement on the site which would become the City of Newark.
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​On May 20 of 1923
109 Klansmen march through the streets of Point Pleasant in hoods and robes as a demonstration “that the Klan is particularly strong in Ocean and Monmouth counties,” reported the Asbury Park Press on the front page of the newspaper the next day.

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On May 19 of 1950 
Thirty-six workers are killed in South Amboy when ammunition explodes as it is being loaded on a barge for shipment to Pakistan, with another 350 suffering injuries.

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On May 18 of 1905
A granite monument erected by the state of New Jersey is dedicated at the New Bern National Cemetery in North Carolina to the memory of the 9th New Jersey Regiment Volunteer Infantry which fought in the Civil War. The monument features a Union soldier poised on a base on which the names of the battles in which the regiment fought are inscribed.

On May 17 of 1996
Governor Christine Todd Whitman signs a package of bills collectively known as “Megan’s Law,” requiring registration of convicted sex offenders and notification of their addresses to communities in which they reside. The legislation is initiated following the 1994 murder in Hamilton Township near Trenton of seven-year-old Megan Kanka by a neighbor, a convicted sex offender, who lived across the street from the Kanka family's home.
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On May 16 of 1916
An explosion at the DuPont Repauno Works, which produced dynamite and TNT in the Gibbstown section of Greenwich Township on the Delaware River, kills 14, injures 30 and destroys two buildings.

On May 15 of 1911
US Supreme Court decides case of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States in which the Court holds that Standard Oil is an illegal monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Court's remedy divides Standard Oil into 34 geographically separate and eventually competing firms.
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