Geographical Location - New Jersey

  1. The AFL-CIO Expels the Teamsters Union
  2. Atlantic City Legalizes Casino Gambling
  3. Battle of Monmouth
  4. Battle of Princeton
  5. Battle of Trenton
  6. Bell Labs Develops Photovoltaic Cell
  7. Bell Telephone Scientists Develop the Photovoltaic Cell
  8. Bubble Memory Devices Are Created for Use in Computers
  9. Dominion of New England Forms
  10. Edison Demonstrates the Incandescent Lamp
  11. Edison Develops First Alkaline Storage Battery
  12. Edison Introduces the Kinetophone to Show the First Talking Pictures
  13. First Commercial Atomic-Powered Ship, Savannah, Is Launched
  14. The Great Swamp Wildlife Refuge Is Dedicated
  15. The Great Train Robbery Introduces New Editing Techniques
  16. Griess Constructs “the Monster,” the Last Sporadic Group
  17. Hess Concludes the Debate on Continental Drift
  18. Invention of the Transistor
  19. Jansky’s Experiments Lead to the Founding of Radio Astronomy
  20. Johnson Perfects the Process to Mass-Produce Disc Recordings
  21. A Jury Awards Monetary Damages to the Estate of a Smoker
  22. King George’s War
  23. Long, Hot Summer
  24. Manabe and Wetherald Warn of the Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming
  25. Medical Waste Washes onto U.S. Atlantic Beaches
  26. Meteorologists Make the First Computerized Weather Prediction
  27. Nanticoke
  28. New Jersey Women Gain the Vote
  29. Northeast States Abolish Slavery
  30. Optical Pulses Shorter than One Trillionth of a Second Are Produced
  31. Pavonia Massacre
  32. Penzias and Wilson Discover Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
  33. Russell Announces His Theory of Stellar Evolution
  34. Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain Discover the Transistor
  35. U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to New Jersey’s Megan’s Law
  36. The Ultimate Resource Argues in Favor of Population Growth
  37. Waksman Discovers the Antibiotic Streptomycin
  38. Wheeler Names the Phenomenon “Black Holes”
  39. Wiles Offers Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem