Today in New Jersey history:
June 2. 1815: Philip Kearny, nineteenth-century New Jersey’s greatest war hero, with service in both the Mexican and Civil Wars, was born in New York City. He would spend most of his formative years on a family estate near Newark. Kearny commanded the First New Jersey Brigade in 1861 and early 1862 during the Civil War. He was killed in action at Chantilly, Virginia, on September 1, 1862, while leading the Third Division of the Third Army Corps.
June 2, 1918: The day became known as “Black Sunday” when the German submarine U-151 sank six U.S. ships and damaged two others off the coast of New Jersey in the space of a few hours.
June 2, 1935: Amelia Earhart made the first public parachute jump at the Switlik Parachute Company’s jump-training tower at the Switlik farm in Ocean County. The tower was designed by her husband, George Palmer Putnam.
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