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* Monthly History Timeline * January * February * March * April * May * June * July * August * September * October * November * December On July 27 of 1974
The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, chaired by New Jersey Congressman Peter Rodino, votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon. On July 26 of 1860
A tornado with winds estimated up to 200 miles per hour strikes areas of Camden. It destroys several homes and buildings and lifts a large factory building near the Cooper River from its foundation. Three people are killed and four injured. On July 25 of 1790
William Livingston, first governor of the state of New Jersey elected by the legislature to 13 consecutive single-year terms after the Declaration of Independence, dies at his home near Elizabethtown at the age of 67. On July 24 of 1974
New Jersey Congressman Peter Rodino, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, opens public hearings in Washington DC on the impeachment of President Richard Nixon. On July 23 of 1984 Vanessa Williams, the first African American Miss America, resigns her title under pressure from the Miss America Pageant due to scheduled publication in Penthouse magazine of nude photos of her taken when she was 19. The Pageant names Suzette Charles, who as Miss New Jersey was the first runner-up to Williams, as her successor to serve for the weeks until a new Miss America was crowned in September. In 2015, Williams returned at the invitation of the Pageant as a judge of the competitors, with the Pageant chief executive giving her a public apology for how she was treated in 1984. On July 22 of 1994 Billy Joel and Elton John begin the first of five duet concerts at Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands On July 21 of 1969 NASA Apollo 11 Mission Commander Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to step onto the lunar surface in what he describes as "one small step for man, a giant leap for mankind." Nineteen minutes later, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin joins him and they plant the US flag on the moon. Aldrin was born in Glen Ridge and graduated from Montclair High School. On July 20 of 1967 The first national Black Power Conference brings over a thousand people and some 300 organizations to Newark to discuss issues facing African-Americans. On July 19 of 2020 Roy Den Hollander, a 72-year-old attorney and self-described men's rights activist, appears disguised as a FedEx delivery man at the North Brunswick home of U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas, whom he had appeared before in litigation, and shoots and wounds her husband and kills her 20-year-old son. On the next day, Hollander is found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in upstate New York and is identified as the primary suspect in a prior murder in California of another men's rights attorney. A bill pending in the Congress, The Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act, also known as Daniel’s Law in honor of Judge Salas’ late son. would restrict release of private information relating to federal judges which might be used to identify their residences. Governor Murphy signed similar legislation into state law in November 2020. On July 18 of 1951 'Jersey Joe Walcott' (real name Arnold Raymond Cream) becomes heavyweight champion when he knocks out Ezzard Charles in the seventh round in Pittsburgh. Born in Pennsauken in 1914, at age 37 Walcott is the oldest at that point to become champion. |
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