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The Hot Tempered Veep & a Woodbridge Train Wreck

Today in New Jersey history:

February 6, 1756: Aaron Burr, a future vice president of the United States who would gain historical infamy when he mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton in a duel at Weehawken, was born in Newark.

February 6, 1951: The crowded Pennsylvania Railroad train No. 733, known as the “Broker” due to the large number of Wall Street executives who commuted to and from New York ...City aboard, careened from the rails in Woodbridge and hurtled down a forty-foot embankment. The accident killed eighty-four commuters and one crew member in one of the worst rail disasters in New Jersey or United States history.

(For more on the Woodbridge wreck, see the relevant chapter in "Hidden History of New Jersey" by me, Harry Ziegler (another Wall Twp. guy) and Jim Madden. For the complete story, see Gordon Bond's forthcoming book on the disaster.)

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