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The Brooklyn Bridge first opens for traffic. It was initially designed by German immigrant John Augustus Roebling of Trenton, who died in 1869, shortly after construction began, from an infection caused by an injury at the bridge crushing his toes, with his 32-year-old son Washington Roebling succeeding his father as head of the project. Washington Roebling also suffered a debilitating injury as a result of decompression sickness shortly after ground was broken for the Brooklyn tower foundation in 1870. His wife Emily then took over his on-site supervisory role for the next 11 years until the bridge's opening. 
On May 23 of 2015
Famed mathematician and Nobel Prize recipient John Forbes Nash, Jr., and his wife Alicia are killed when their taxi driver loses control on the New Jersey Turnpike near Monroe Township and strikes a guardrail, ejecting the Nashes onto the roadway. They had been on their way home to West Windsor from the airport after a visit to Norway, where Nash had received the Abel Prize in mathematics. Nash's life, and his battles with mental illness, were the subject of the book published in 1998 and Academy Award-winning movie released in 2001, both titled A Beautiful Mind. On May 22 of 1958
An accidental explosion of several Nike Ajax missiles at their Middletown launch site kills ten Army and civilian ordnance personnel and substantially damages the site. 
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. 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. 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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