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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2002
| 1900 | Population 1,883,669. June 30. Hoboken steamship and wharf fire; 145 lives lost. |
| 1902 | June 19. Paterson silk dyers strike. |
| 1903 | Public Service Corporation formed. |
| 1904 | Lowest temperature (34° below zero) recorded at Riverdale. |
| 1908 | Hudson and Manhattan R.R. Co. opens first tunnel under Hudson River between Jersey City and New York. |
| 1910 | Population 2,537,167. Woodrow Wilson elected Governor. |
| 1911 | Legislature passes direct primaries act and other reforms urged by Governor Wilson. |
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson elected President. |
| 1913 | John Reed and other radicals lead Paterson textile strike. |
| 1915 | Strike guards fire into pickets at Carteret fertilizer factory; 6 killed, 28 wounded. |
| 1916 | Black Tom explosion destroys large quantity of munitions on
New York Bay. Standard Oil workers in Bayonne strike; 8 killed, 17 wounded. |
| 1917 | Hoboken becomes World War embarkation port; Camps Dix and Merritt established for mobilization and training. |
| 1920 | Population 3,155,900. |
| 1921 | WJZ, world's second radio station, established at Newark. |
| 1924 | First transcontinental dirigible flight made by the Shenandoah from Lakehurst to San Diego in 4 days. |
| 1926 | Camden-Philadelphia suspension bridge opened. 15,000 Passaic textile workers on strike for a year. |
| 1927 | Holland vehicular tunnel between New York and Jersey City
opened. State Constitution amended. |
| 1928 | Goethals Bridge and Outerbridge Crossing, connecting New Jersey and Staten Island, opened. |
| 1929 | Air mail service begins at Newark airport. Graf Zeppelin starts and finishes 21-day around-the-world trip at Lakehurst. |
| 1930 | Population 4,041,334. |
| 1931 | George Washington Bridge between Fort Lee and Manhattan
opened. Bayonne Bridge between Bayonne and Staten Island opened. |
| 1932 | Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., kidnaped at Hopewell. Amelia Earhart flies from Los Angeles to Newark; first trans-continental nonstop flight by a woman. |
| 1933 | Akron, Navy dirigible, crashes off Barnegat; Admiral Moffett and
73 others lost. Morristown National Historical Park established. Pulaski Skyway between Jersey City and Newark dedicated. |
| 1934 | Ward Line steamship Morro Castle burns off Asbury Park; 134
die. Dr. Harold C. Urey of Leonia receives Nobel Prize in physics. |
| 1935 | University of Newark organized. Legislature ratifies' national child labor amendment. |
| 1936 | Unemployed marchers occupy State Capitol for 9 days. Bruno Richard Hauptmann executed at Trenton for murder of Lindbergh baby. American Newspaper Guild members on Newark Ledger win Nation's first important strike of editorial workers. |
| 1937 | German dirigible Hindenburg destroyed by fire at Lakehurst; 36
die. Perth Amboy pottery workers win first sit-down strike. First tube of Lincoln Tunnel between Weehawken and New York opened. |
| 1938 | A. Harry Moore inaugurated as first third-term Governor under
1844 Constitution. Swedes celebrate 300th anniversary of coming to Delaware Valley Voluntary census shows 287,530 totally unemployed in State; estimated maximum unemployed, 399,347. |
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