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* Monthly History Timeline * January * February * March * April * May * June * July * August * September * October * November * December On September 17 of 2016
A pipe bomb bomb explodes in a trash can in Seaside Park, followed later that day by explosion of a homemade pressure cooker bomb in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. Thirty-one people are injured in the Manhattan bombing. Two days later, Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28-year-old Afghan man and naturalized US citizen whose family operated a takeout restaurant in Elizabeth, is arrested in Linden; he subsequently was tried, convicted and sentenced on February 13, 2018, to life in prison without parole. On September 16 of 1908
General Motors is created as a New Jersey corporation with a $2,000 payment by its founder William Crapo Durant, a high-school dropout who had made his fortune building horse-drawn carriages. Durant, who had previously created the Buick Motor Company, used New Jersey law to establish GM as a holding company that owned Buick and over 30 previously separate companies, including well-known automakers like Oldsmobile, Cadillac, and Oakland (which later became Pontiac), and other auto parts and supplier firms. In 1911, Studebaker, then an electric car maker with its operations largely in Indiana, re-incorporated in New Jersey. On September 15 of 1958
A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge near Bayonne, with the locomotive and leading cars plunging into Newark Bay, killing 48, including former New York Yankees second baseman George "Snuffy" Stirnweiss On September 14 of 1944
"The Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944" results in nine deaths and injuries to another 390 people in New Jersey, along with 400 homes destroyed and damages to more than 3,000 others. 
On September 13 of 1988
The rock band Bon Jovi releases their fourth album, named after their home state, New Jersey 
On September 12 of 1940
An explosion of nearly 300,000 pounds of gunpowder kills 51 workers and injures over 200 at the Hercules Powder Co. plant in the Kenvil section of Roxbury Township in Morris County On September 11 of 2001
Four airliners are hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists, with 694 New Jersey residents killed of the total 2,996 dying in the attacks by hijackers who crashed airplanes into the World Trade center's twin towers and the Pentagon, as well as the crash of a fourth hijacked plane, which had taken off from Newark Liberty International Airport bound for San Francisco, but which crashed in a field near Shanksville in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after passengers—learning of the earlier hijackings over cell phones-- attempted to overpower the hijackers and retake control of the plane. Middletown Township in Monmouth County had 37 residents die in the World Trade Center attacks, more victims per capita than any other place in the state and the second hardest hit city after New York. In November 2002, President George W. Bush appointed former New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean to chair the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (popularly known as the 9/11 Commission) created by Congressional legislation to investigate the attacks, which in 2004 issued a report pointing to failures of the CIA and FBI to share information on suspects they had identified as potential terrorists and recommended reforms in how federal agencies were structured to improve coordination of intelligence probes. |
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