In the mid-1900s, people began moving back into the rural areas from the overcrowded cities. A number of transportation projects helped better connect New Jersey. The New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway opened in the 1950s.
The history of air travel has close ties to New Jersey. On May 3, 1919, the first passenger flight in American history was flown from New York to Atlantic City. Today, New Jersey is home to two international airports, Newark and Atlantic City. Newark Airport expanded its passenger and cargo services in 1963. In the 1980s, it became one of the world's busiest airports.
Today New Jersey is recognized for its present as well as its past. While remembering its proud history, New Jersey will continue to be the setting for many of the great events of the future.
Keizo Yamada
Carlo Sabatini (actor)
Carlo Sabatini (7 April 1932 – 10 April 2020) was an Italian actor. He was born in Rome. He was known for voice dubbing movie roles of Morgan Freeman and Sir Ian McKellen from English to Italian. He voiced dubbed Magneto in "X-Men", "X2", "", "The Wolverine", and "".
Sabatini died on 10 April 2020 in Rome, aged 88.
Lucas Neff
Lucas Neff (born November 7, 1985) is an American actor. He is best known for his lead role in the Fox sitcom "Raising Hope", and starred on the CBS sitcom "Carol's Second Act".
Neff was born and raised in the Andersonville area of Chicago, Illinois. He is of Irish and Jewish descent.
Gregg Binkley
Gregg Binkley (born March 20, 1963) is an American television actor. He is best known for his roles as Kenny James on the NBC sitcom "My Name Is Earl" and as Dan, the Del Taco spokesperson. He has also had guest spots on "Gilmore Girls", "Malcolm in the Middle", "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch", "Yes, Dear", "The Drew Carey Show", "Full House", and "Wizards of Waverly Place".
Bruce Allpress
Bruce Robert Allpress (25 August 1930 – 23 April 2020) was a New Zealand actor. He appeared in many television dramas and also presented on television and radio productions. In the mid-1980s, he was a regular on "The Billy T. James Show", as well as featuring alongside Tommy Lee Jones in the pirate adventure movie "Nate and Hayes". He was best known for his role as Aldor in the movie "".
Allpress died on 23 April 2020, aged 89, in Auckland six months after being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Alan Abel (musician)
Alan Abel (1928 – April 25, 2020) was an American percussionist, music educator, and inventor. He was the Associate Principal Percussionist of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1959 until his retirement in 1997. He taught at Temple University beginning in 1972.
Abel died on April 25, 2020 from COVID-19.
Thomas Huang
Thomas Shi-Tao Huang (, June 26, 1936 – April 25, 2020) was a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and computer scientist. He was a researcher and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Huang was one of the important scientist in computer vision, pattern recognition and human computer interaction. Huang was born June 26, 1936, in Shanghai, Republic of China.
Emilio S. Allué
Emilio Simeon Allué Carcasona, SDB (18 February 1935 – 26 April 2020) was a Spanish-American prelate of the Catholic Church. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston until his retirement in 2010. He was born in Huesca, Spain.
Allué died from COVID-19 in Boston on 26 April 2020, aged 85.
Big Al Carson
Alton "Big Al" Carson (October 2, 1953 – April 26, 2020) was an American blues and jazz singer. He performed with his band, the Blues Masters, in New Orleans, and with other bands. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He played tuba in addition to singing. Carson performed and recorded with multiple jazz and brass bands in New Orleans, including under the leadership of Doc Paulin, Lars Edegran, and Dr. Michael White.
Carson died on April 26, 2020 at the age of 66 after a heart attack in New Orleans.
Gideon Patt
Gideon Patt (; 22 February 1933 – 26 April 2020) was an Israeli politician. He was born in Jerusalem. Patt was a member of the Knesset from 1970 to 1996. He was a Minister of Industry from 1979 to 1984 and Tourism in 1981 and again from 1988 to 1992. He was a member of Likud.
Patt died on 26 April 2020 in Jerusalem at the age of 87.
Henri Weber
Henri Weber (23 June 1944 – 26 April 2020) was a French politician of Jewish-Polish descent. He was a Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France from 2004 to 2014. He was a member of the Socialist Party (PS). From 1995 to 2004, Weber was a member of the French Senate. His father-in-law was politician Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber.
Weber died on 26 April in 2020 in Avignon of COVID-19, aged 75.
Bernard Gersten
Bernard Gersten (January 30, 1923 – April 27, 2020) was an American theatrical producer. His career began in the 1960s through the early 2000s. He was born in Newark, New Jersey. From 1960 to 1978, Gersten worked with Joseph Papp as associate producer at the New York Shakespeare Festival. He was an executive producer of Lincoln Center Theater from 1986 until he retired in 2013. In 2013, he won a Special Tony Award.
Gersten died from pancreatic cancer in New York City on April 27, 2020, aged 97.
Ramon Jimenez Jr.
Ramon Reyes Jimenez Jr. (July 14, 1955 – April 27, 2020) sometimes known as "Monet" or "Mon Jimenez", was a Filipino advertising businessman and politician. He was Secretary of Tourism from 2011 to 2016 during the presidency of Benigno Aquino III. He was born in Manila.
Jimenez died on April 27, 2020 in Manila, aged 64.
Tiede Herrema
Dr Tiede Herrema (21 April 1921 – 24 April 2020) was a Dutch businessman. He was kidnapped by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1975. He was born in present-day Utrecht.
In the 1970s, Herrema ran a wire factory, Ferenka, in the city of Limerick, Ireland. On the morning of 3 October 1975, having just left his home in Castletroy near Limerick, Herrema was kidnapped by two members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. The kidnappers wanted the release of three IRA prisoners, including Rose Dugdale.
After a massive security operation, the kidnappers were eventually traced on 21 October 1975 to a house in Monasterevin, County Kildare. After a further two-week-long struggle, Herrema was released.
Herrema died on 24 April 2020, three days after his 99th birthday.
Rob Shick
Rob Shick (born 4 December 1957 in Port Alberni, British Columbia) is a retired National Hockey League referee. He began his career with the 1985–86 NHL season. He retired in March 2009.
Shick refereed over 1,321 NHL regular season games, 130 playoff games, and two All-Star Games during his career. His final game was on March 7, 2009 at Ronald B. Stafford Arena where the Plattsburgh State Cardinals faced the Norwich Cadets.
Birbhum district
Birbhum district is a district in West Bengal, India.
During the time of British East India Company, the administrative unit by the name Birbhum was formed in 1787. Before that, it was administratively a part of Murshidabad district. After independent (1947) Birbhum district is an administrative unit in the Indian state of West Bengal.
It is the northernmost district of Burdwan division—one of the five administrative divisions of West Bengal. The district headquarters is in Suri. Other important cities are Rampurhat, Bolpur and Sainthia. Jamtara, Dumka and Pakur districts of the state of Jharkhand lie at the western border of this district; the border in other directions is covered by the districts of Bardhaman and Murshidabad of West Bengal.
Often called "the land of red soil". Birbhum is noted for its topography and its cultural heritage which is somewhat different from the other districts in West Bengal. The western part of Birbhum is a bushy region, a part of the Chhota Nagpur Plateau. This region gradually merges with the fertile alluvial farmlands in the east.