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Ernest Gordon, who as a captain in the British Army spent 40 months as a prisoner of war in the Japanese prison camps which used forced labor to build the famous bridge on the River Kwai, dies in Princeton at the age of 84. After his release, Gordon emigrated to the US in 1950 and later was named as the Dean of the Princeton University Chapel in 1955, serving until his retirement in 1981. 
Ernest Gordon at Princeton. Image: Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University
On August 14 of 2003
A major outage beginning at 4:10 p.m knocks out power across the eastern United States and parts of Canada. Fifty million people were affected, including residents of New Jersey, New York, Cleveland and Detroit, as well as Toronto and Ottawa, Canada. Affected areas iin New Jersey comprised most of Hudson, Morris, Essex, Union, Passaic, and Bergen counties, including the cities of Newark, Jersey City and Paterson, although some sections of Newark and East Orange still had power. Power was restored to most residents within hours after the blackout, with nearly three-quarters back online by midnight and virtually all service restored by noon on the next day. On August 13 of 2013 Bridget Anne Kelly, deputy chief of staff to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie,sends an email to Port Authority official David Wildstein with the message “time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.” The message initiated the closure of traffic lanes onto the George Washington Bridge from Fort Lee later labeled as the "Bridgegate" scandal. 
On August 12 of 2004 New Jersey Governor James McGreevey declares "I am a gay American" and intention to resign his office in a televised statement from the State House in Trenton. The resignation comes after reports of his affair with Golan Cipel, an Israeli citizen whom he he had named as a state official serving as a liaison to terrorism programs. On August 10 of 1964
Racial tensions boiled over into widespread civil disturbances in northern New Jersey. In Paterson, the violence erupted when teenagers threw rocks and bottles at police cars, triggering consecutive nights of smashed storefront windows, debris throwing, and looting. Simultaneously, in Elizabeth, rioters targeted local taverns with Molotov cocktails. Order was finally restored by law enforcement after three days of unrest. |
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