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On August 15 of 2002
Ernest Gordon, who as a captain in the British Army spent 40 months as a prisoner of war in the Japanese prison camps which used forced labor to build the famous bridge on the River Kwai, dies in Princeton at the age of 84. After his release, Gordon emigrated to the US in 1950 and later was named as the Dean of the Princeton University Chapel in 1955, serving until his retirement in 1981. On August 14 of 1989 Bon Jovi's "New Jersey" album becomes the first U.S. album to be released legally in the Soviet Union. The Russian label Melodiya paid the group with a truckload of firewood since it was prohibited for rubles to leave the USSR. On August 13 of 2013 Bridget Anne Kelly, deputy chief of staff to Governor Chris Christie, sends an email to Port Authority official David Wildstein with the message “time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.” The message initiated the closure of traffic lanes onto the George Washington Bridge from Fort Lee later labeled as the "Bridgegate" scandal. 
On August 12 of 2004 New Jersey Governor James McGreevey declares "I am a gay American" and intention to resign his office in a televised statement from the State House in Trenton. The resignation comes after reports of his affair with Golan Cipel, an Israeli citizen whom he he had named as a state official serving as a liaison to terrorism programs. On August 11 of 1964 Racial unrest sparks riots in Paterson and Elizabeth. Violence first begins in Paterson when African American teenagers throw bottles and rocks at passing police cars, followed by hundreds of other residents smashing windows, looting stores and hurling debris at police. At about the same time in Elizabeth, rioters threw Molotov cocktails into three taverns with subsequent looting and damage of stores and cars. The unrest continues for three days before order is restored. 
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