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Photo of Oscar Hammerstein mansion. Creator, date of creation, publisher and date of publication unknown. Image courtesy Ralph Bitter and Middletown Township Historical Society, used with permission.

October 16, 1929

Bootlegger Compound Raided in Former Middletown Home of Oscar Hammerstein Sr.

On October 16, 1929, at the height of Prohibition, federal agents raided an isolated house atop the ridge in the Navesink section of Middletown, overlooking Sandy Hook Bay (pictured above...the person in the photo is unidentified). Before 1920, the house...

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Photo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at Monmouth University. Photo from Monmouth Magazine, courtesy Monmouth University, used with permission.

October 8, 1966

Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1966 Speech at Monmouth College

Photo of Marconi inset, and his first transmitter incorporating a monopole antenna. It consisted of an elevated copper sheet (top) connected to a Righi spark gap (left) powered by an induction coil (center) with a telegraph key (right) to switch it on and off to spell out text messages in Morse code. Image credit: Guglielmo Marconi, Looking back over thirty years of radio, Radio Broadcast magazine, Doubleday, Page, and Co., New York, Vol. 10, No. 1, November 1926, p. 31. Public domain.

September 30, 1899

Guglielmo Marconi Demonstrates Wireless Telegraph in the U.S.

Poster for Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, public domain.

October 2, 1897

Bud Abbott, Straight Man Extraordinaire

October 4, 1901

Lewis O. Summersett – The Man Who Brought T. Thomas Fortune to Monmouth County

by Randall Gabrielan

Photo of scale model of Revolutionary War whaleboat from the New Jersey Maritime Museum.

October 5, 1781

Privateer Adam Hyler, In Rowboats, Captures Five British Ships

Photo of Oscar Hammerstein mansion. Creator, date of creation, publisher and date of publication unknown. Image courtesy Ralph Bitter and Middletown Township Historical Society, used with permission.

October 16, 1929

Bootlegger Compound Raided in Former Middletown Home of Oscar Hammerstein Sr.

Photo of Holmdel horn antenna at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel. (1962). United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), public domain.

October 17, 1978

Bell Labs’ Arno Penzias & Robert Wilson Are Nobel Prize Laureates

Image: Pilot William D. Frayne endangering his own life by risking a side-to-side landing, while his plane was on fire over France, 1917. Frayne's bravery saved the life of his observer and won him Army Silver Star for heroism. Original illustration by Charlie Swerdlow, History Depicted, ©2024, commissioned by Monmouth Timeline.

October 17, 1918

The Silver Star: William D. Frayne of Sea Bright

by John R. Barrows

Sen. Joe McCarthy, right, Secretary of Army Robert T. Stevens, second from right, and New Jersey congressmen leave the Evans Signal Laboratory at Fort Monmouth, N.J., Oct. 20, 1953, where they had been investigating possible security leaks at the Army Signal Corps Radar Laboratories. At the gate are, left to right: Maj. Gen. Kirke B. Lawton; Sen. H. Alexander Smith (R-N.J.); Rep. James C. Auchincloss (R-N.J.); Maj. Gen. George I. Back, chief of the Army Signal Corps; Stevens and McCarthy. McCarthy told newsmen he hopes to find new leads for purported spy ring operating within the radar center. (AP Photo)

October 20, 1953

Tail Gunner Joe Sets His Sights on Fort Monmouth and the Signal Corps

October 22, 1882

When Bernard Baruch Met Lillie Langtry on Pleasure Bay

By John R. Barrows

October 24, 1936

Albert Einstein Visits Monmouth County’s New Utopian Community

by Dr. Yvette Florio Lane

Composite image of Time/Newsweek Springsteen covers. Single image composite of two cropped images to illustrate story consistent with Fair Use Doctrine.

October 27, 1975

Bruce Springsteen Appears on Covers of Time & Newsweek on the Same Week