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July 10, 1926: The Day Nature Blew up a Town in New Jersey

Dennis Mersereau · 07/10/14 10:30AM

88 years ago today, an explosion of almost unbelievable proportions rocked northern New Jersey, killing nearly two dozen people and shaking the military to its core. The cause was neither criminal nor was it an act of war, but rather a single bolt of lightning.