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On January 19 of 1883 First electric lighting system employing overhead wires goes into service in Roselle. It is built by Thomas Edison to demonstrate that an entire community could be lit by electricity from a shared, central generating station. On January 18 of 1994 Christine Todd Whitman is inaugurated as the 50th governor of New Jersey and first woman to hold the office On January 17 of 1911
Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated as the 34th governor of New Jersey On January 16 of 1991
Operation Desert Storm is launched against Iraq following its invasion and occupation of Kuwait, with forces from 32 nations under command of Trenton native US General Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., whose father Norman Sr. was first superintendent of New Jersey State Police.
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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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