1. In 1785, the first-ever Methodist Episcopal Church in New Jersey was organized in Camden on July 6th, under the name of the City Road Society.

2. On July 6th, 1892, the labor union in Paterson, New Jersey, led by the influential labor leader and anarchist, Emma Goldman, went on a strike demanding better working conditions and wages. Over 1,800 workers engaged in the strike, which became one of the most significant labor upheavals in New Jersey's history.

3. July 6th, 1957 marks the opening of the world's first nuclear power plant, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which was designed by the Garden State's top physicist, Admiral Hyman Rickover, who was born in Makarov, Russia, and raised in California, but lived and worked in New Jersey for most of his life.

4. On July 6th, 1999, the New Jersey Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill that would allow gay and lesbian couples to adopt children, making New Jersey only the second state in the country, after Massachusetts, to give full adoption rights to same-sex couples.

5. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill creating the New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority and establishing the New Jersey College Loans to Assist State Students (NJCLASS) program on July 6th, 2010. The program provides low-cost loans to New Jersey students who are attending college in-state or at eligible out-of-state institutions.