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On March 26 of 1920 F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel, This Side of Paradise, is published, largely written while he was a student at Princeton University, and highlighting Princeton's campus life and its exclusionary student eating clubs. 
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On March 25 of 1845
The New Jersey legislature approves the establishment of a state mental hospital, initially named as the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum, following active lobbying by reformer Dorothea Dix. 
On March 24 of 1782
Loyalist forces assault a blockhouse in Toms River defended by Continental soldiers commanded by Captain Joshua Huddy. Huddy is taken prisoner, and later executed by hanging in what is now Middletown on April 12. 
Huddy being led to his execution. Image: Wikipedia
On March 23 of 1835
The Morris and Essex Rail Road Company is organized to build a line from Newark to Morristown 
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Jon Stewart "I'm from New Jersey..." introduction for Bruce Springsteen at 2014 Kennedy Center Honors
Poster promoting Atlantic City in 1920s 
"The Prudential has the strength of Gibraltar" ad in 1909
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