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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.
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 1846
The John Minturn, a three-masted packet ship sailing from New Orleans to New York carrying $80,000 in goods and a total of 51 crew and passengers, sinks in a gale off Mantoloking in Ocean County, with 38 deaths. The 1846 wreck sparked the development of the United States Life-Saving Service, an agency to assist shipwrecked crews and passengers which would eventually merge into the United States Coast Guard. The disaster was depicted in this 1846 hand-colored lithograph by Currier and Ives.
The John Minturn, a three-masted packet ship sailing from New Orleans to New York carrying $80,000 in goods and a total of 51 crew and passengers, sinks in a gale off Mantoloking in Ocean County, with 38 deaths. The 1846 wreck sparked the development of the United States Life-Saving Service, an agency to assist shipwrecked crews and passengers which would eventually merge into the United States Coast Guard. The disaster was depicted in this 1846 hand-colored lithograph by Currier and Ives.
Image: Library of Congress
On February 14 of 1989
New Jersey's first liver transplant is performed at University Hospital in Newark at the then New Jersey Medical School.
On February 13 of 1935
A jury in the trial at the Hunterdon County Courthouse in Flemington of Bruno Richard Hauptmann returns a verdict of guilty on a charge of murder resulting from the kidnapping of the infant son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh on March 1, 1932
A jury in the trial at the Hunterdon County Courthouse in Flemington of Bruno Richard Hauptmann returns a verdict of guilty on a charge of murder resulting from the kidnapping of the infant son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh on March 1, 1932
On February 12 of 1899
During one of the coldest winters ever recorded affecting much of the nation, a blizzard strikes the Northeast, with snow depths in Cape May reported at over 30 inches.
During one of the coldest winters ever recorded affecting much of the nation, a blizzard strikes the Northeast, with snow depths in Cape May reported at over 30 inches.
On February 11 of 1938
On what would have been his 91st birthday, a memorial tower to Thomas Alva Edison is dedicated at the site of his Menlo Park laboratory (in current Edison Township), which was where he invented the incandescent bulb and the phonograph.
On what would have been his 91st birthday, a memorial tower to Thomas Alva Edison is dedicated at the site of his Menlo Park laboratory (in current Edison Township), which was where he invented the incandescent bulb and the phonograph.
On February 10 of 2016
Governor Chris Christie suspends his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination following his disappointing sixth place finish with only 7% of the vote in the New Hampshire primary
Governor Chris Christie suspends his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination following his disappointing sixth place finish with only 7% of the vote in the New Hampshire primary
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- Jon Stewart tribute to Bruce Springsteen at Kennedy Center Honors
- Jon Stewart tribute to Bruce Springsteen at Kennedy Center Honors
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