Today in New Jersey history:
July 12. 1630: Michael Pauw filed papers with the Dutch West India Company applying for a “patroonship” or land grant across the river from Manhattan, the first formal European claim to property in what is now New Jersey.
July 12, 1898: 1898 There was an explosion at the Laflin and Rand gunpowder mill in Pompton Lakes. Nine buildings were destroyed and nine workers injured. Following the explosion soldiers from the Third New Jersey Volunteer Regiment, National Guardsmen who had been sent to guard the plant in May, helped with controlling the fires and rescue operations.July 12, 1916: The New Jersey shore shark attacks of that deadly summer continued as a shark killed a young boy and a rescuer trying to save him in Matawan Creek.
July 12, 1928: Twenty-two year old Captain Emilio Carranza, “Mexico’s Lindbergh,” crashed his plane in the New Jersey Pine Barrens while returning to Mexico from a goodwill flight to New York. Carranza was killed in the crash. His body was recovered by members of a local American Legion Post the following day and brought to the garage of Buzby’s store in Chatsworth. Mexican schoolchildren contributed money to build a monument to the pilot at the crash site in Tabernacle, and there is a memorial service held there each year, conducted by the Mexican consuls to New York and Philadelphia and the American Legion. (Note: Some sources give the date of Carranza’s death as July 13, but considering his takeoff time, he probably crashed prior to midnight on July 12.)
July 12, 1967: Newark was rocked by civil disturbances initially sparked by the arrest of an African-American taxi driver on motor vehicle violations. Protests grew out of frustration over numerous issues, including substandard housing, chronic unemployment, alleged police brutality and inferior educational opportunities. Before the disturbances ended six days later, the state police and the New Jersey Army National Guard had been called into the city. The riots were responsible for the deaths of twenty-six people and caused an estimated $10 million in damage.
July 12. 1630: Michael Pauw filed papers with the Dutch West India Company applying for a “patroonship” or land grant across the river from Manhattan, the first formal European claim to property in what is now New Jersey.
July 12, 1898: 1898 There was an explosion at the Laflin and Rand gunpowder mill in Pompton Lakes. Nine buildings were destroyed and nine workers injured. Following the explosion soldiers from the Third New Jersey Volunteer Regiment, National Guardsmen who had been sent to guard the plant in May, helped with controlling the fires and rescue operations.July 12, 1916: The New Jersey shore shark attacks of that deadly summer continued as a shark killed a young boy and a rescuer trying to save him in Matawan Creek.
July 12, 1928: Twenty-two year old Captain Emilio Carranza, “Mexico’s Lindbergh,” crashed his plane in the New Jersey Pine Barrens while returning to Mexico from a goodwill flight to New York. Carranza was killed in the crash. His body was recovered by members of a local American Legion Post the following day and brought to the garage of Buzby’s store in Chatsworth. Mexican schoolchildren contributed money to build a monument to the pilot at the crash site in Tabernacle, and there is a memorial service held there each year, conducted by the Mexican consuls to New York and Philadelphia and the American Legion. (Note: Some sources give the date of Carranza’s death as July 13, but considering his takeoff time, he probably crashed prior to midnight on July 12.)
July 12, 1967: Newark was rocked by civil disturbances initially sparked by the arrest of an African-American taxi driver on motor vehicle violations. Protests grew out of frustration over numerous issues, including substandard housing, chronic unemployment, alleged police brutality and inferior educational opportunities. Before the disturbances ended six days later, the state police and the New Jersey Army National Guard had been called into the city. The riots were responsible for the deaths of twenty-six people and caused an estimated $10 million in damage.
