The US celebrated the opening of its very first drive-in cinema.
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Thomas Edison completed the world's first movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
New York and New Jersey were struck by the strongest earthquake in over one hundred years.
King Charles II of England gave a land grant to James Duke of York, which meant that New Jersey became a British colony.
Jean Pierre Blanchard flew the first hot air balloon in the US.
Race riots break out in Newark, New Jersey, killing 26 people and injuring several others.
