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| 1900: Basketball's first dynasty Trenton gives birth to professional hoops with a team that wins championships with as few as 24 points. 1901: The Nellie Bly's bloody demise The modern, 60 mph express collides with another train in Hamilton, killing 17. 1902: Trenton tornado A twister cuts a 2-mile swath through the heart of the city, wrecking 100 homes and causing a tragic drowning. 1903: Downpour of destruction The Delaware River runs 28 feet over its banks, killing three men and taking out nine bridges from Trenton north. 1904: Teddy swings the big stick A Trentonian and his son become the first American victims of Mideast terrorism -- and a cause for Theodore Roosevelt. 1905: A town called Roebling Trenton's leading industrial family creates a neat and controllable little steel town on the Delaware, in Burlington County. 1906: Rumble over 'The Jungle' From his home in Princeton, muckraker Upton Sinclair pens his stomach-turning book on the meat-packing industry, which leads to wide reforms. 1907: Shocking way to die Trenton prison conducts its first electrocution, jumping on a bandwagon Thomas Edison used to publicize electricity. 1908: Gruff old Grover Castigated while in office, former President Cleveland dies at his Princeton home and is eulogized as a statesman. 1909: The devil went down to Jersey The monster of the Pine Barrens has an active year, appearing with spooky regularity and venturing as far north as Trenton. |
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