Posts from r/newjersey on Wednesday, 07/01
POSTS - WEDNESDAY, 07/01
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Actor and Essex County legend Andre Braugher was born on this date in 1962. Lived in South Orange; best known for roles on Homicide: Life on the Street; Brooklyn Nine-Nine; appeared in Glory (1989) and The Mist (2007); won two Emmy Awards
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38 years ago today, five New Jersey firefighters died in the Hackensack Ford fire
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Mikie Sherrill’s first budget delivers priorities but continues traditions she criticized
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Out and about
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NJ Transit Trauma
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Enron Truck?
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"Mountain Man" John "Liver Eating" Johnson was born near Pattenburg (Hunterdon County) on this date 1824. It was said that Johnson killed and scalped over three hundred Crow Native Americans and then ate their livers. The 1972 Robert Redford movie "Jeremiah Johnson" was based on Johnson's life
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On this date in 1916, Charles Epting Vansant of Philadelphia, age 23, was swimming in Beach Haven when a shark began biting his legs. His left thigh was stripped of its flesh and he bled to death at the Engleside Hotel. The Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 were underway
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low flying fighter jets
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Happy 81st birthday to singer, songwriter, model, actress, and Passaic County legend Debbie Harry. Graduate of Hawthorne HS (class of '63); known as the lead singer of the new wave band Blondie; 1981 single "Rapture" is considered the first rap song to chart at number one in the US
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