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Albert Einstein dies at age 76 in Princeton Hospital after refusing surgery to repair a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, reportedly saying “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.” On April 17 of 1907
Ellis Island processes 11,747 immigrants, the highest daily total in its history. During the year of 1907, a total of 1,004,756 persons arrived seeking entry to the US. On April 16 of 2007
Record flooding occurs in much of New Jersey after a Nor'east storm brings 7 to 10 inches of rain accompanied by strong winds. The Hackensack River and the Great Egg Harbor River set peak 100-year flood levels and the Passaic, Raritan, Whippany and Rahway rivers also flood their basins. On April 15 of 1912
The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the Atlantic after striking an iceberg on the previous night. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard,, more than 1,500 die. The 11 New Jersey residents who die include Washington Roebling II of Trenton, president of the Mercer Automobile Co. and the only son of Charles Roebling, president of John A. Roebling Sons, and the nephew and namesake of Colonel Washington A. Roebling, one of the builders of the Brooklyn Bridge designed by his father John A. Roebling. Roebling's close friend Stephen Blackwell, a Hopewell native who had toured Europe with Roebling visiting automobile factories, and the son of New Jersey State Senator John Blackwell, also died in the sinking. On April 14 of 1865
After declining President Lincoln's invitation to accompany him and his wife Mary Todd to the theater, General Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia take the train to the City of Burlington to visit their children at a house that Grant had rented for his family to reside in during the Civil War. Advised at their stop in Philadelphia that the President had been shot, the Grants continue on to Burlington, with Grant quickly returning to Washington on the following morning. On April 13 of 1777
A surprise attack conducted by 4,000 British and Hessian forces under the command of Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis against a Continental Army outpost of 500 soldiers at Bound Brook leads to the British plundering the outpost, with estimates of Continental casualties ranging from 30 to 60 killed and 80 to 90 captured. Most of the 500-man garrison, however, is able to escape. On April 12 of 2007
Governor Jon Corzine is severely injured when the SUV driven by a state trooper in which he was a passenger loses control and crashes into a guardrail. His injuries, which required multiple surgeries and weeks of rehabilitation, included a fractured left leg, sternum, collarbone, six ribs on each side and a lower vertebra. The Governor was on his way to a meeting at the Governor's Mansion in Princeton with radio personality Don Imus and the Rutgers women's basketball team after the controversy provoked when Imus referred to the team as "nappy-headed hoes" on his CBS radio show. Shortly before the scheduled meeting, CBS announced that it had fired Imus. |
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