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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

Editor’s note: A complete transcript of Dr. King's address to Monmouth College is available online here And an audio recording is available here On October 6, 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., described by a local newspaper at the time...

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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 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. Joseph McCarthy (left) chats with his attorney Roy Cohn during Senate subcommittee hearings on the McCarthy-Army dispute. United Press International telephoto. United States Library of Congress digital ID cph.3c14995, Public Domain.

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