The American state of New Jersey was the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
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Thomas Edison completed the world's first movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
Researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, isolated Streptomycin, which became the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis (TB).
During the Battle of Princeton, British forces were defeated in New Jersey by George Washington's revolutionary army.
The US celebrated the opening of its very first drive-in cinema.
Jean Pierre Blanchard flew the first hot air balloon in the US.
