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Born in Trenton in 1934, Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf is remembered as commander of operations of Desert Shield and Desert Storm. The burly general, affectionately known as “The Bear,” once said, “It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who go into battle.”

first appeared: 11/11/2001

American billionaire J.P. Morgan (1837-1913) bought the White Star Line in 1902 for his International Mercantile Marine Corp. of New Jersey. The company took 10 years to build the ill-fated Titanic.

first appeared: 11/4/2001

Hanger Number 1 at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station is a National Historic Monument. Built in 1921, the huge hanger once housed the German dirigible Hindenberg.

first appeared: 10/28/2001

The Pine Valley Golf Club in Clementon (pop. 4,986) was deemed the No. 1 golf course in the world by Golf Digest in 2000. The course’s 6,765 yards, built in 1918, offer a par 70.

first appeared: 10/21/2001

Charles Addams (1912-1988), known for his Addams Family cartoon strip—which became the basis for one of television’s most famous sitcoms—was a native of Westfield (pop. 29,644).

first appeared: 10/14/2001

It was a more modest time. In 1935, the police in Atlantic City arrested 42 men on the beach as part of a crackdown on topless bathing suits worn by men.

first appeared: 10/7/2001

Tourists annually spend at least $17 billion in the state of New Jersey, and more than 353,000 jobs depend on tourism and related industries.

first appeared: 9/30/2001

Novelist James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), best known for his five Leatherstocking Tales, set mostly in upstate New York, was born in Burlington (pop. 7,436).

first appeared: 9/23/2001

Thomas Edison, who maintained laboratories at Menlo Park and West Orange, pioneered the modern industrial research laboratory in which teams of workers, rather than a lone inventor, systematically investigate a problem.

first appeared: 9/16/2001

Born in 1930 in Montclair (pop. 38,977), Col. Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. was the astronaut selected in 1966 to pilot Gemini 12 and became the co-pilot of the Lunar Module of Apollo 11 in 1969—the first to land on the moon.

first appeared: 9/9/2001

Born in Orange (pop. 32,868), research scientist Lloyd H. Conover invented the antibiotic tetracycline, which became the most prescribed broad spectrum antibiotic in the United States within three years of its 1955 patent.

first appeared: 9/2/2001

In 1909, St. Mary’s Bank Credit Union became the first credit association chartered in the United States.

first appeared: 8/26/2001

The brook trout became New Jersey’s state fish in 1992. This native New Jersey fish received its name from the Pilgrims.

first appeared: 8/19/2001

The Knobbed Whelk is the most recently adopted of New Jersey’s state symbols (1995). Found along most of the state’s beaches, this large marine snail with a spiral shell is also known by its Italian name, scungilli.

first appeared: 8/12/2001

The state’s name is derived from the English Channel Isle of Jersey, for the English settlers who came from there.

first appeared: 8/5/2001

The books of young readers’ author Judy Blume, who was born in Elizabeth, include Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret (1970), and Forever (1975). In 1981, she established the KIDS Fund to encourage communication between children and their parents.

first appeared: 7/29/2001

John Stevens (1749-1838) of Hoboken launched the world’s first steam-ferry service in 1811 and built the first steam locomotive in the United States in 1825.

first appeared: 7/22/2001

Fort Dix, east of Camden, was named for New Jersey-born Gen. John Adams Dix, a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Civil War. He became a U.S. senator, secretary of the treasury, minister to France, and—after establishing residence in New York—governor of that state.

first appeared: 7/15/2001

Many great moments on the silent screen were filmed not in Hollywood but in Fort Lee (pop. 32,000). Before World War I, seven studios and 21 companies produced silent films there.

first appeared: 7/8/2001

More than 300 minerals can be found in the town of Franklin (pop. 5,000)—including zinc, the reason for Franklin’s development. Until the ore was depleted in the 1950s, New Jersey Zinc Co. mined 500,000 tons of it annually.

first appeared: 7/1/2001

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