Today in New Jersey history:
June 6, 1780: Hessian General Wilhelm Von Knyphausen, who had moved 6,000 British and Hessian troops from Manhattan to Staten Island, crossed over to Elizabethtown, New Jersey, at midnight, hoping to push through Hobart’s gap to Morristown the following day. Hannah Ogden Caldwell, wife of American clergyman and Patriot activist Reverend James Caldwell, was killed during his subsequent advance when a British soldier fired into her house in Connecticut Farms (today’s Union).
June 6, 1862: The 1st New Jersey Cavalry was ambushed in the Shenandoah Valley and suffered 40 casualties, including Colonel Percy Wyndham, who was captured, and Captain Thomas Ryerson Haines, son of former New Jersey governor Daniel Haines, who was killed in action.
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June 6, 1878: John P. Holland of Paterson tested his first submarine design in the Passaic River. Although he claimed it seaworthy, the U.S. Navy rejected his plans.
June 6, 1895: Mary Philbrook, the first woman attorney licensed to practice in New Jersey, was formally admitted to the state bar.
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June 6, 1933: The first drive in theater in America opened on Admiral Wilson Boulevard at the Airport Circle in Pennsauken.
