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On February 23 of 1998
The US Supreme Court rejects without comment hearing an appeal of a lower court decision upholding the constitutionality of 'Megan's Law,' the statute enacted by New Jersey in 1996 mandating registry and pubic notice of the residences of convicted sex offenders. The law was approved following the rape and murder in 1994 of seven-year-old Megan Kanka by a sex offender who lived near the Kanka family home in Hamilton Township in Mercer County. On February 22 of 1794
Students at the College of New Jersey (renamed Princeton University in 1896) celebrate George Washington's birthday for the first time. The minutes of the Cliosophic Society note: 'An oration on the birth day [sic] of the President of the U.S. was delivered by Bro. Gama, who has been previously chosen for that purpose, to the great satisfaction of all present.' Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University On February 21 of 1861
President-elect Abraham Lincoln stops in Trenton on his way to be inaugurated in Washington. He is hosted by city leaders at a luncheon at the Trenton House Hotel and later delivers brief separate talks to the state Senate and Assembly at the State House. |
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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