What Happened On This Day In Monmouth County History?

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Featured Monmouth County History Timelines & Stories

Original painting of Monmouth Boat Club by E. J. Bilderback, 2009. Image credit: Monmouth Boat Club, used with permission.

March 20, 1883

Monmouth Boat Club – An Endangered National Historic Site

August 21, 1904

The Legendary William “Count” Basie

August 21, 1892

Stephen Crane’s Writing Ends his Brother’s Jersey Shore Journalism Career, and Possibly Affects the Outcome of a Presidential Election

Photograph of the Freehold championship baseball team.

August 21, 2004

Freehold Kids Win National Championship in Little League World Series Senior Division

Featured image: Composite image, stylized photograph of Dorothy Parker coverted to appear like an oil painting, cropped, courtesy Dorothy Parker Society; photograph of commemorative marker at Parker birthplace in West End, photo credit: Randall Gabrielan, used with permission. Composite by John R. Barrows.

August 22, 1893

Dorothy Parker – The Accidental Monmouthite

by Randall Gabrielan

Portrait of William McKinley. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Miss Marieli Benziger. Public domain via Creative Commons.

August 25, 1899

President William McKinley Talks About What the American Flag Means in Speech at Ocean Grove

Genovese mansion in Atlantic Highlands. Creator and publisher unknown.

August 27, 1944

Vito Genovese Returns to America, and to Monmouth County

John R. Barrows

Three images of U-869. U-534 at Birkenhead Docks, Merseyside, England. Photo by Paul Adams, Public domain. U-534 is of the same type of submarine as U-869. Sonar side-scan of sunken U-869. Photo by Richie Kohler. Used by permission, johnchatterton.com. Sketch of sunken U-869 by Dan Crowell. Used by permission, johnchatterton.com.

February 11, 1945

The Tragic Mystery of U-869, a.k.a. “U-Who?”

by Rick Burton

The Fatal Showdown Between Colonel Tye and Joshua Huddy, original illustration. Commissioned by Monmouth Timeline, ©2021, Charlie Swerdlow, History Depicted.

September 1, 1780

The Fatal Showdown Between Colonel Tye and Joshua Huddy

Aerial photo of Bell Labs in Holmdel, The Oval. Created by Lee Beaumont. Public domain via Creative Commons.

September 1, 1961

The Bell Labs Holmdel Complex

Image of Halve Maen created by Matt H. Wade, copyrighted. Used under Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA-3.0/Matt H. Wade at Wikipedia).

September 2, 1609

Henry Hudson First Arrives at Navesink Highlands

September 2, 1945

Dr. Walter McAfee: Camp Evans Mathematician, Scholar, and Scientist

by Melissa Ziobro