Two robbers who wore police uniforms robbed an armored truck of $3 million in New Jersey.
Source
Thomas Edison's first overhead electric lighting system began service in Roselle, New Jersey.
Bell Labs demonstrated the first practical silicon solar cell in New Jersey, US.
Researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, isolated Streptomycin, which became the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis (TB).
When 65 cars collided during thick fog on the New Jersey Turnpike, nine people were killed.
Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph message using Morse code across two miles of wire in New Jersey, USA.