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On June 15 of 1992
Vice President Dan Quayle, during a visit to the Rivera Elementary School in Trenton, oversees a spelling bee in which a 12-year-old was called on to spell “potato.” When the student correctly spelled the word, Quayle urged the student to add an "e" at the word's end so it was incorrectly spelled "potatoe". The incident subjected Quayle to wide ridicule, but it was later disclosed that the school had provided Quayle with a flash card that also incorrectly spelled "potatoe". In a later memoir, Quayle wrote: “It was more than a gaffe. It was a ‘defining moment’ of the worst imaginable kind. I can’t overstate how discouraging and exasperating the whole event was.”
On June 14 of 1976
Liberty State Park on the Jersey City waterfront behind the Statue of Liberty is opened on Flag Day to the public, and becomes a central point for viewing the celebration in New York harbor of the nation's Bicentennial on the following July 4
On June 13 of 1988
After a four-month trial, a jury in the US District Court in Newark awards the estate of Rose Cipollone of Little Ferry, a smoker for 42 years, $400,000 against The Liggett Group tobacco company on the ground that Liggett had misrepresented the risks of smoking in its advertising for Chesterfield and L&M cigarettes. The verdict is subsequently overturned on appeal, however, restoring the tobacco industry's record to that point of never being held liable for the risks of smoking.
After a four-month trial, a jury in the US District Court in Newark awards the estate of Rose Cipollone of Little Ferry, a smoker for 42 years, $400,000 against The Liggett Group tobacco company on the ground that Liggett had misrepresented the risks of smoking in its advertising for Chesterfield and L&M cigarettes. The verdict is subsequently overturned on appeal, however, restoring the tobacco industry's record to that point of never being held liable for the risks of smoking.
On June 12 of 1984
Vincent "Jimmy Sinatra" Craparotta Sr., 56, a reported member of the Lucchese crime family, was bludgeoned to death by three men with golf clubs in Toms River. Authorities contended that Craporatta was killed because he resisted efforts by the Lucchese family to take over a company that made video poker machines owned by Craporatta’s nephews, :In 1993, following a 10-week-long trial, four men were convicted of murder and related charges. Lucchese member Thomas Ricciardi, who was convicted of beating Craparotta to death during the 1993 trial, later became a government informant, claiming the murder was a "planned physical beating" intended to send a message that accidentally went too far. He entered the federal witness protection program after helping federal prosecutions of the Lucchese New Jersey operations.
On June 11 of 1950
Martin Luther King, Jr., while a seminary student at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, and residing in Camden with fellow student Walter McCall, stages his first formal sit-in against racial discrimination when he, McCall and two others are refused service at Mary’s Cafe in Maple Shade. Cafe owner Ernest Nichols was arrested after he fired his gun into the air when the group persisted in asking for service, but was later released. The protest led to King’s first lawsuit against discrimination and utilized a New Jersey anti-discrimination law, the first statewide measure approved anywhere in the US.
Martin Luther King, Jr., while a seminary student at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, and residing in Camden with fellow student Walter McCall, stages his first formal sit-in against racial discrimination when he, McCall and two others are refused service at Mary’s Cafe in Maple Shade. Cafe owner Ernest Nichols was arrested after he fired his gun into the air when the group persisted in asking for service, but was later released. The protest led to King’s first lawsuit against discrimination and utilized a New Jersey anti-discrimination law, the first statewide measure approved anywhere in the US.
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