Mick Jagger grabbed a traditional New Jersey breakfast at Tick Tock Diner in Clifton, hours before taking the stage at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford on Thursday, August 1, 2019.
Jagger ordered Taylor’s ham, eggs and cheese. “So I went to Tick Tock Diner!” Jagger told the crowd. “I had Taylor’s ham, eggs and cheese! And I had Disco Fries! And I had a Sloppy Joe to go!”
This week we bring you events that happened in Central Jersey five, 10, 25, 50 and 100 years ago.
5 years ago
July 29, 2019: A state appeals court upheld the conviction of James Quackenbush, 51, of Plainfield, who was serving a 40-year sentence in New Jersey State Prison for killing his mother, Gail VandeWal, 69, by hitting her over the head with a 12-pound dumbbell in February 2013.
July 30: The Marisa Tufaro Foundation celebrated its second anniversary on what would have been the foundation’s namesake’s 16th birthday and announced it has donated more than $100,000 to support pediatric patients and children in need throughout Middlesex County.
July 30: Terai Powell, a senior at St. Joseph Regional High School in Montvale, announced on Twitter that he will play football at Rutgers University. Powell helped the Green Knights win the NJSIAA Non-Public Group 4 championship last season, averaging 6.4 yards per carry.
July 31: Walter Yovany Gomez (aka “Cholo”), 35, a former MS-13 member who was listed as one of the FBI’s 10 most wanted fugitives, was sentenced in Newark to 25 years in prison for the 2011 murder of Julio Matute of Plainfield.
August 1: It becomes legal for doctors in New Jersey to prescribe lethal medication to patients with less than six months to live. New Jersey is one of eight states that allows medically assisted suicide or dying.
Aug. 2-4: The Jersey Fringe Festival, featuring live music and a beer and wine garden, took place at 12 venues in downtown Hammonton, with the Eagle Theatre as its anchor venue.
10 years ago
July 30, 2014: The Somerset Patriots defeat the Lancaster Barnstormers 7-0 on “Bark In The Park Night” at TD Bank Ballpark in Bridgewater. Somerset wins the nightcap 2-0. The Patriots set a franchise record with 47 wins in a half, despite it being three weeks after the half actually ended.
July 30-31: About 350 cyclists, including local residents, participated in the two-day Bike4Chai fundraiser that began in Piscataway and ended at Camp Simcha in Glen Spey, N.Y., raising more than $4 million for overnight summer camps for children and young people with cancer and other serious illnesses.
July 31: Albert Thompson, 48, of Berkeley Heights, was reportedly indicted on charges he stole millions of dollars over an eight-year period from Elizabeth-based New England Motor Freight Co. and affiliated companies Eastern Freightways Inc. and Carrier Industries Inc.
August 1: Jeff See, 17, a senior at JP Stevens High School and from Edison, defeats Alan Couric from Boca Raton, Florida, in the “Jeopardy! Teen Tournament” to win $75,000 in prize money.
Aug. 3: The “Under the Influence of Music” tour featuring Wiz Khalifa, Jeezy, Ty Dolla $ign, Rich Homie Quan, Mack Wilds, Iams! and DJ Drama hits the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel.
Aug. 4: State Superior Court Judge Robert Reid in Summerville rules that a statement by David Glanski Jr. given to police two days after the murder of Carolyn Stone, 45, of Bridgewater, is admissible in the trial scheduled to begin Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. Stone was killed over Memorial Day weekend in 2009 at Glanski’s father’s home in the Bradley Gardens neighborhood of Bridgewater.
1999
July 30, 1999: Deborah Caggiano, 34, of South Plainfield, was sentenced to seven years in prison for embezzling more than $2.5 million from Beumer Inc., a Bridgewater manufacturing company.
July 31: Three teenage girls reportedly pleaded guilty to fourth-degree assault for putting rubbing alcohol in a teacher’s coffee cup at Middlesex County Vocational Technical High School in East Brunswick. The girls are from Spotswood, Perth Amboy and New Brunswick.
August 1: It was reported that the New Brunswick Hispanic Riverfront Festival, featuring music, dancing and food, will be held from Thursday, August 5, 1999 to Sunday, August 8, 1999 at Boyd Park in New Brunswick.
August 4: The Somerset Patriots regain sole possession of first place with a 4-2 victory over the Bridgeport Bluefish before a crowd of 5,384 at Somerset Ballpark in Bridgewater, erasing the pain of a 9-1 loss in the series opener on Tuesday, August 3, 1999.
1974
July 29, 1974: Scott Siegrist and Rich Schemel combined to pitch a no-hitter and Piscataway American West beat Spring Lake Sea Girt, 1-0, to advance to the Section 3 finals of the state Little League Baseball tournament.
July 31: New Jersey Secretary of State J. Edward Krabiel, 58, was indicted on charges of bid-rigging along with Franklin Contracting, a company he once headed, Democratic fundraiser George Katz of Fort Lee, Passaic Crushed Stone, and Gallo Asphalt.
Aug. 2: 130 residents of the Royal Court Apartments in Perth Amboy were displaced after a fire caused extensive damage to the first four floors of the five-story building. Ten apartments were destroyed and one elderly resident was hospitalized.
Aug. 4: Officer Jeffrey Reutt discovered 14-year-old John Barnes Jr., of Mount Laurel, Burlington County, sleeping peacefully in a wooded area in Clinton. He unknowingly discovered the young man, who had been missing from southern New Jersey since the previous Monday and had been the subject of an extensive police and volunteer search.
August 4: It was reported that Jerome Kern’s musical classic “Show Boat” would be presented by Plays in the Park at Roosevelt Park in Edison beginning Tuesday, August 6, 1974.
1924
July 30, 1924: A riot broke out among 500 inmates at a juvenile detention center in Rahway, New Jersey, leaving three inmates shot and killed. By the time the riot was put down, the facility sustained significant damage.
July 30: Emil Ulmrick, 21, a teacher at St. Joseph’s Normal College near Metuchen, suffered a seizure while swimming in Lake Nelson in South Plainfield and drowned before he could be rescued.
July 30-31: “Her Temporary Husband,” starring Sydney Chaplin, Sylvia Bremer and Owen Moore, screened at the Reed Strand Theatre in Perth Amboy.
August 1: An attempt was made to “blow up” a safe at the 45th Street station of the New Jersey Central Railroad’s Bayonne station, but the robbers were chased off by police who were informed of what was happening by a woman who lived near the station.
Aug. 4: In baseball, St. Peter’s Lyceum defeated the Pirates of Sayreville, 2-0.
Brad Wadlow is a staff writer for MyCentralJersey.com.
