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1981: MOB MURDER
1981: Mob murder. On or around Valentine's Day in 1981, an ambitious young Trenton gangster named Frank Stillitano was snatched off the street by thugs who pulled a black hood over his head and drove him away for execution. Stillitano's corpse was found stuffed into the trunk of a car linked to his own brother-in-law 12 days later at 1907: THE ELECTRIC CHAIR Execution by hanging was a grim, hands-on business in early-20th century America. It took a strong stomach indeed to wrap a noose around the condemned man, then let him drop through a gallows trapdoor to choke and gasp and swing until he died. 1909 - CAPITAL CENTURY He has the head of a horse, the wings of a bat, the scaly body of a reptile and the forked tail of a demon. He's screeched and hopped and pranked his way into folk legend as a mischievous monster who haunts the New Jersey countryside, scaring the wits out of lone travelers. 1949: THE NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE Welcome to the New Jersey Turnpike! The most modern, the most heavily traveled highway in the world -- a triumph of engineering skill and far-sighted planning! 1970: BUSTING THE MOB On Feb. 17, 1970, Frank Sinatra flew into Trenton to testify before the New Jersey State Investigative Commission as part of an ongoing investigation of organized crime. 1978: THE ZELINSKY MURDER Cops, bureaucrats and newsmen who were there remember it as the most sensational event of their careers: Jean Zelinsky hurling her mother's head on to the steps of the New Jersey State House during the office Christmas parties of 1978. 1904: TEDDY'S BIG STICK 1904: Teddy's Big Stick. Cartoon comment on T.R.'s "big stick." Long before there were suicide bombers, Osama bin Laden or chants of "Death to the Great Satan," a Trenton man named Ion Perdicaris became the 20th century's first American victim of Middle Eastern terrorism. It all happened in 1904, when the 64-year-old Perdicaris and his stepson 1952: RIOTS AT TRENTON PRISON The state of New Jersey called them "sexual psychopaths, passive homosexuals, aggressive 'wolves' with long records of fights and stabbings, escape artists, agitators and incorrigibles of all ages." 1956: ARSON HITS TRENTON'S CHURCHES In 1956, a devastating fire at St. Mary’s Cathedral on North Warren Street claimed the lives of three people and caused $3.5 million worthof damage.
1986: THE FIRE DEPARTMENT'S SADDEST DAY 1986: The fire department's saddest day. `. On the morning of Aug. 4, 1986, Trenton awoke to the smell of smoke and the sad word on the streets that two city firemen were killed overnight when trapped in a burning downtown bar. The deaths of Robert Mizopalko and Joseph F. Woods Jr. were only the 16th and 17th in the then 94-year history of a1981: MOB MURDER
1981: Mob murder. On or around Valentine's Day in 1981, an ambitious young Trenton gangster named Frank Stillitano was snatched off the street by thugs who pulled a black hood over his head and drove him away for execution. Stillitano's corpse was found stuffed into the trunk of a car linked to his own brother-in-law 12 days later at 1907: THE ELECTRIC CHAIR Execution by hanging was a grim, hands-on business in early-20th century America. It took a strong stomach indeed to wrap a noose around the condemned man, then let him drop through a gallows trapdoor to choke and gasp and swing until he died. 1909 - CAPITAL CENTURY He has the head of a horse, the wings of a bat, the scaly body of a reptile and the forked tail of a demon. He's screeched and hopped and pranked his way into folk legend as a mischievous monster who haunts the New Jersey countryside, scaring the wits out of lone travelers. 1949: THE NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE Welcome to the New Jersey Turnpike! The most modern, the most heavily traveled highway in the world -- a triumph of engineering skill and far-sighted planning! 1970: BUSTING THE MOB On Feb. 17, 1970, Frank Sinatra flew into Trenton to testify before the New Jersey State Investigative Commission as part of an ongoing investigation of organized crime. 1978: THE ZELINSKY MURDER Cops, bureaucrats and newsmen who were there remember it as the most sensational event of their careers: Jean Zelinsky hurling her mother's head on to the steps of the New Jersey State House during the office Christmas parties of 1978. 1904: TEDDY'S BIG STICK 1904: Teddy's Big Stick. Cartoon comment on T.R.'s "big stick." Long before there were suicide bombers, Osama bin Laden or chants of "Death to the Great Satan," a Trenton man named Ion Perdicaris became the 20th century's first American victim of Middle Eastern terrorism. It all happened in 1904, when the 64-year-old Perdicaris and his stepson 1952: RIOTS AT TRENTON PRISON The state of New Jersey called them "sexual psychopaths, passive homosexuals, aggressive 'wolves' with long records of fights and stabbings, escape artists, agitators and incorrigibles of all ages." 1956: ARSON HITS TRENTON'S CHURCHES In 1956, a devastating fire at St. Mary’s Cathedral on North Warren Street claimed the lives of three people and caused $3.5 million worthof damage.
1986: THE FIRE DEPARTMENT'S SADDEST DAY 1986: The fire department's saddest day. `. On the morning of Aug. 4, 1986, Trenton awoke to the smell of smoke and the sad word on the streets that two city firemen were killed overnight when trapped in a burning downtown bar. The deaths of Robert Mizopalko and Joseph F. Woods Jr. were only the 16th and 17th in the then 94-year history of a 1970: BUSTING THE MOB On Feb. 17, 1970, Frank Sinatra flew into Trenton to testify before the New Jersey State Investigative Commission as part of an ongoing investigation of organized crime. 1953: OPPENHEIMER'S FALL J. Robert Oppenheimer at the time of the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and Gen. Leslie Groves look over the world's first atomic blast site. An old Oppie, in Princeton in the '60s.1951: LEVITTOWN
William Levitt had already established himself as America's biggest housebuilder in 1951 when he looked upon a green expanse of woods and spinach farms in bucolic Bucks County, Pa., and dreamed of 1916: ITALIANS AND CHAMBERSBURG Michael Commini arrived alone in America as an 11-year-old boy — speaking no English, carrying only a few spare dollars in his pocket and wearing an immigrant's identification tag around his neck.1935: GEORGE GALLUP
The smart money said Franklin D. Roosevelt couldn't win another term as president in 1936. Too controversial, too free-spending, too helpless to stop the Great Depression. 1921: DEFYING TRENTON'S BLUE LAWS For most of New Jersey history, it was forbidden to engage in "dancing, singing, fiddling, or other music for the sake of merriment"on a Sunday.
1979: THE EMMA JANE STOCKTON MURDER The torture and murder of socialite Emma Jane Stockton in 1979 is one reason so many suburbanites view Trenton as a breeding ground forcriminal depravity.
1988: GIULIANI TAKES ON MILKEN 1988: Giuliani takes on Milken. Rudolph Giuliani, seen here as mayor of New York, helped boost his political prospects by targeting a Princeton brokerage linked to Michael Milken. All through 1988, an ambitious U.S. attorney named Rudolph Guiliani was sending out federal agents to investigate racketeering in Princeton, not some New YorkMafia
1956: ARSON HITS TRENTON'S CHURCHES In 1956, a devastating fire at St. Mary’s Cathedral on North Warren Street claimed the lives of three people and caused $3.5 million worthof damage.
1980: ABSCAM AND FRANK THOMPSON On the afternoon of Feb. 2, 1980, two FBI agents showed up at the Washington home of one of the most powerful Democrats in America, Congressman Frank Thompson, and the political landscape of Greater Trenton was changed forever.1900s 1910s
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THE CAPITAL CENTURY 1900-1999 Your feedback is welcome. Please direct all questions to: blackwell@capitalcentury.com What do you think were the 10 biggest stories of the 20th century inGreater Trenton?
READ 100 STORIES ABOUT 100 YEARS IN NEW JERSEY HISTORY. Read Blackwell's blog:OF MOOPS AND MEN
1) LINDBERGH :
The beloved aviator's son is snatched from the family home in Hopewell and found murdered two months later. It's still the crime of thecentury.
MERCER COUNTY'S 10 BIGGEST STORIES OF THE CENTURY Here are the stories that made the biggest impact in Trenton and beyond during the 1900s. 2) WAR OF THE WORLDS: Orson Welles and the rest of the Mercury Theater players tricked America into thinking Martians had landed in West Windsor, in the most famous Halloween prank in history.4) TRENTON RIOTS:
Martin Luther King's assassination touched off a wave of racial violence that forever stained the image of New Jersey's capital city.5) WOODROW WILSON :
The Princeton academic, fresh from cleaning up New Jersey politics as the governor, climbed all the way to president of the U.S.3) MEGAN:
Her murder by a sex offender who lived across the street in Hamilton horrified parents everywhere and led to new laws to track pedophiles.6) EINSTEIN:
Science's greatest genius moved to Princeton after being hounded from Nazi Germany, and inspired a generation of physicists and peacelovers.
7) FLOODS:
The Delaware's worst rampage claimed three lives in the Trenton area and took out two bridges.8) UPTON SINCLAIR:
The first muckraker turned stomachs and turned Teddy Roosevelt into a believer in food regulation by writing a novel, "The Jungle," at his Princeton Township home.9) TRENTON SIX:
Six black men from Trenton were sentenced to the electric chair on the most flimsy of evidence before an international crusade helped winthem a new trial.
10) LOVER'S LANE MURDERS: A madman with a shotgun spreads terror in Hamilton's Duck Island and beyond, killing six people as they neck in parked cars. Welcome to the site of capitalcentury.com, the online archive for a 100-part series about the history of the Trenton-Princeton area during the 20th century. As this site is built up, it will recap all the major events that occurred on the local scene -- the Lindbergh kidnapping , the Trenton riots of 1968 , the triumphs of the Roebling family, the comedy success of Ernie Kovacs . All the stories were originally published in The Trentonian between 1998-99 in an award-series conceived and edited by Jon Blackwell. It was written by Blackwell, Paul Mickle (now editor of The Trentonian), Chris Baud, Lauren Black, Dave Neese, Larry O'Rourke, Tom Fernandez and George O'Gorman. _A FEW MORE OF THE BIGGEST STORIES OF THE 1900s:_ 1901: The great wreck of the Nellie Bly 1911: The story behind "Trenton Makes, the World Takes" 1926: The wild, wacky failure of Prohibition 1937: Mary Roebling, a Trenton icon 1941: Trentonians tell their war stories 1951: Instant surburbia: It's Levittown 1966: Vietnam hits home in Trenton 1976: Swine flu at Fort Dix creates a national health crisis 1989: Princeton's greatest whodunit: The Cissy Stuart murder 1994: How the Thunder triumphed in TrentonDetails
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