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Today in History - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project
Connecticut Issues Same-Sex Marriage Licenses for the First Time – Today In History: November 12
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The 29th First to Enter Confederate Capital When It Surrenders – Today in History: April 3
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Fuller Brush Tower Collapses – Today in History: March 31
Bursting of the Staffordville Reservoir – Today in History: March 27
St. Patrick’s Day – Today in History: March 17
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The Lyman Allyn Opens – Today in History: March 2
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William Gillette’s Last Performance – Today in History: February 27
Blizzard Halts Mail Delivery – Today in History: February 7
Oldest College Daily – Today in History: January 28
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A Total Eclipse of the Sun – Today in History: January 24
Civic Center Roof Collapses – Today in History: January 18
“Appalling Calamity”: Loss of the Steamboat Lexington – Today in History: January 13, 1840
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Timothy Dwight Dies – Today in History: January 11
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Connecticut Ratifies US Constitution – Today in History: January 9
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Samuel Huntington, the first President of the United States, dies – Today in History: January 5
Connecticut Turnpike Opens – Today in History: January 2
The Hartford Convention – Today in History: December 15
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The Day Four Trains Collided in East Thompson
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Nathaniel Palmer discovers Antarctica – Today in History: November 18
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The Kennedys in Connecticut – Today in History: November 6
The Oldest Continuously Published Newspaper – Today in History: October 29
Goodspeed Opera House Opens – Today in History: October 24
Hartford’s Industrial Day – Today in History: October 7
Roger Sherman Dies – Today in History: July 23
Up from the Ashes: Fire at the Meriden Britannia Company – Today in History: July 16
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Hartford Circus Fire: “The Tent’s on Fire!” – Who Knew?
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Griswold v. Connecticut – Today in History: June 7
A Night to Remember: When the Steamboat Took on the Railroad—and Lost
“U.S. Troops in Viet Nam, but none in Selma” – Today in History: March 9
Roger Griswold Starts a Brawl in Congress – Today in History: February 15
Four Saints in Three Acts Debuts – Today in History: February 7
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Frozen Reservoir Destroys Danbury – Today in History: January 31
Town Patents the Lattice Truss Bridge – Today in History: January 28
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Ethan Allen Born – Today in History: January 10
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The Smith Sisters and Their Cows Strike a Blow for Equal Rights – Today in History: January 8
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The First US Can Opener – Today in History: January 5
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“Tom Thumb” Born – Today in History: January 4
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Elizabeth Bentley Born – Today in History: January 1
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First New-Gate Prisoner – Today in History: December 22
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Elihu Burritt Born – Today in History: December 8
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The Pest House Completed – Today in History: December 4
Scrabble Copyrighted – Today in History: December 1
Foot Ball Match: Harvard vs. Yale – Today in History: November 13
Alfred Howe Terry Born in Hartford – Today in History: November 10
Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut – Today in History: November 1
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Yale University Art Gallery – Today in History: October 25
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Byram River Flood – Today in History: October 15
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New Haven Gives the Lollipop its Name – Today in History: October 13
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Calder’s Stegosaurus Dedicated – Today in History: October 10
Unveiling of the Grant Memorial Tablet – Today in History: October 4
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American Architect Ithiel Town Born – Today in History: October 3
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Nathan Hale Hanged in New York – Today in History: September 22
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Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch – Today in History: September 17
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World’s First Helicopter – Today in History: September 14
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Parachutist Snagged in Midair – Today in History: September 13
Dinosaur Tracks Found – Today in History: August 23
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Roosevelt Rides in an Electric Car – Today in History: August 22
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The Charter Oak Fell – Today in History: August 21
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Governor Jonathan Trumbull Dies – Today in History: August 17
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The Great Wallingford Tornado – Today in History: August 9
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Home Missionary Society’s First Missionary – Today in History: August 7
Connecticut Valley Railroad’s First Train – Today in History: July 29
Hartford Wide-Awakes – Today in History: July 26
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The White Mountain Express Derails in Greenwich
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Creating Candlewood Lake – Today in History: July 15
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Connecticut Suffragists Appeal to the President – Today in History: July 12
Bridgeport’s Catastrophic 1911 Train Wreck
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Erector Set Patented – Today in History: July 8
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British Burn Fairfield – Today in History: July 7
The Hartford Circus Fire – Today in History: July 6
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Pepperidge Farm Opens Bakery – Today in History: July 4
Buffalo Bill Cody Visits the Monument of Uncas – Today in History: July 2
Private vs. Public Property – Today in History: June 23
John Howe Makes a Better Pin – Today in History: June 22
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The Blake Rock Crusher – Today in History: June 15
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East Haddam Swing Bridge – Today in History: June 14
Harriet Beecher Stowe Born – Today in History: June 14
The Platt Amendment – Today in History: June 12
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USS George Washington Launched – Today in History: June 9
Thomas Hall’s Electric Block Railroad Signal – Today in History: June 7
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The State Cantata – Today in History: June 3
Alse Young Executed for Witchcraft – Today in History: May 26
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W. J. Squire’s Gill Net Manufactory in East Haddam
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Katharine Hepburn Born – Today in History: May 12
First Woman Elected as US State Governor Born – Today in History: May 10
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John Brown Born – Today in History: May 9
Learning about the Lusitania: How Hartford Heard the News
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First Woman to Receive US Patent – Today in History: May 5
Artist Frederic Church Born – Today in History: May 4
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Last State Highway Toll Paid – Today in History: April 28
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Ironclad Commissioned – Today in History: April 21
Vietnam Veterans Against the War – Today in History: April 19
Bridgeport Women Answer the Call – Today in History: April 15
Colt’s Submarine Battery – Today in History: April 13
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Celebrating Civil War Men and Women – Today in History: April 9
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The “Father of American Football” is Born – Today in History: April 7
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Steamboat Accident – Today in History: March 29
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Anna Elizabeth Dickinson at Touro Hall – Today in History: March 24
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The 29th Leaves for War – Today in History: March 19
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Paleontologist Othniel Marsh dies – Today in History: March 18
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The Telescoping Fishing Rod – Today in History: March 8
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Elihu Burritt Dies – Today in History: March 6
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Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Rally – Today in History: March 5
Rockwell Hardness Tester – Today in History: February 11
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Charles Stratton and Lavinia Warren Wed – Today in History: February 10
Waterbury Burns – Today in History: February 2
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G. Fox & Co. Destroyed by Fire – Today in History: January 29
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New Haven Coliseum Imploded – Today in History: January 20
Sam Colt’s Funeral: The Day Hartford Stopped
Lounsbury Elected Governor – Today in History: January 4
Pratt & Whitney Debuts Wasp Engine – Today in History: December 24
First New-Gate Prisoner – Today in History: December 22
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First Recorded Fall of Meteorites in the United States – Today in History: December 14
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The Beadle Family Murders – Today in History: December 11
Jim Morrison Arrested – Today in History: December 9
Father of Architects Born – Today in History: December 4
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Oliver Wolcott Dies – Today in History: December 1
The Father of Gastric Physiology Born – Today in History: November 21
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Pierre Lallement and the Modern-Day Pedal Bicycle – Today in History: November 20
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The Aqua Velva State – Today in History: November 17
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Calder in Connecticut: World-Famous Artist Called Roxbury Home
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First US Detachable Electric Plug – Today in History: November 8
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The Temperance Movement in Connecticut – Today in History: October 27
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Igor Sikorsky Dies – Today in History: October 26
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The Flood That We Forget: October 15 and 16, 1955
The Steamboat New England: “The shock was dreadful” – Today in History: October 8
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Elizabeth Jarvis Colt Born – Today in History: October 5
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Accidental Shooting Leads to Witchcraft Conviction – Today in History: October 3
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The Great Hurricane of 1938 – Today in History: September 21
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A Day of Celebration – Today in History: September 17
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Bucket Brigade to the Rescue – Today in History: September 12
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Painter, Muralist, Sculptor Sol LeWitt born – Today in History: September 9
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Fort Griswold Attacked – Today in History: September 6
Mastodon Bones Unearthed – Today in History: August 13
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USS Nautilus Passes Under North Pole – Today in History: August 3
Poet Wallace Stevens Dies – Today in History: August 2
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Fire Ravages Cos Cob School – Today in History: July 29
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Roger Tory Peterson Dies – Today in History: July 28
An American Heritage River – Today in History: July 27
Sanitary Fair – Today in History: July 25
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The Connecticut Compromise – Today in History: July 16
Sheff v. O’Neill – Today in History: July 9
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Jonathan Edwards’ Famous Sermon – Today in History: July 8
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Furniture Caster Patented – Today in History: June 30
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Deadly Fire at Gulliver’s – Today in History: June 30
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Educator Sarah Pierce Born – Today in History: June 26
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Henry Ward Beecher Born – Today in History: June 24
Oliver Cromwell Launched – Today in History: June 13
Christopher Leffingwell Born – Today in History: June 11
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Academy Graduates First African American Student – Today in History: June 8
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Parking Authority Created in New Haven – Today in History: June 2
Helen Keller Dies – Today in History: June 1
The Free Consent of the People: Thomas Hooker and the Fundamental Orders
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Cornerstone Set – Today in History: May 25
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Stealth Attack from Guilford Launched – Today in History: May 23
Setting Speed Limits – Today in History: May 21
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Dark Day – Today in History: May 19
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New-Gate Prison Breakout – Today in History: May 18
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Largest Earthquake in Connecticut – Today in History: May 16
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Jacob Schick Invents the Electric Razor – Today in History: May 13
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Misread Signal Leads to Deadly South Norwalk Train Wreck – Who Knew?
Connecticut Declares War Against the Pequot – Today in History: May 1
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First American Medicine Patent – Today in History: April 30
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USS Tullibee – Today in History: April 27
Hamilton Wrecks Aeroplane – Today in History: April 22
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The American School for the Deaf – Today in History: April 15
Horace Bushnell Born – Today in History: April 14
The Coaster Brake – Today in History: April 9
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Freighter Worcester Launched – Today in History: April 5
William Redfield Born – Today in History: March 26
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Leatherman Dies – Today in History: March 20
A Day for Women – Today in History: March 8
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Gideon Welles Appointed Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy – Today in History: March 7
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Today in History – Fales & Gray Explosion Underscores Need for a Hartford Hospital
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Rex Brasher Dies – Today in History: February 29
The Revolving Gun – Today in History: February 25
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Abraham Ribicoff dies – Today in History: February 22
Park Central Hotel Boiler Explosion – Today in History: February 18
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Meriden Town Hall Burns Down – Today in History: February 14
Arthur Miller dies – Today in History: February 10
Charles Stratton and Lavinia Warren Wed – Today in History: February 10
Colt Armory Burns – Today in History: February 4
First General Copyright Law – Today in History: January 29
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First Commercial Telephone Exchange – Today in History: January 28
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John Fitch Born – Today in History: January 21
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Almost a Tragedy: The Collapse of the Hartford Civic Center
The Tariffville Disaster – Today in History: January 15
Land Purchase Becomes Bushnell Park – Today in History: January 5
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Kensington Soldiers Monument Dedicated – Today in History: July 28
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Born – Today in History: July 3
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Sarah Bernhardt Performs in Hartford – Today in History: June 8
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Phineas Pratt’s Machine for Making Combs – Today in History: April 12
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P. T. Barnum Dies – Today in History: April 7
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Knights of Columbus Chartered – Today in History: March 29
Fire at Wesleyan’s North College – Today in History: March 1
Artist Louis Paul Dessar Dies – Today in History: February 14
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Branding Law Enacted – Today in History: February 5
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Mianus River Bridge Collapses – Today in History: June 28
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Greenwich
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Benedict Arnold died in London, England – Today in History: June 14
The Bazooka Changes War – Today in History: June 14
Hamilton Breaks Air Records – Today in History: June 13
Governor Chester Bowles Dies – Today in History: May 25
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Waterbury Tornado – Today in History: May 24
The Portable Typewriting Machine – Today in History: April 12
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Civil Rights Demonstrations – Today in History: March 18
Reel Lawn Mower Patent – Today in History: January 28
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Civil War Soldier Dies of Gangrene – Today in History: July 10
Government Orders Horse Pistols – Today in History: March 9
Miss Huntley’s School Opens – Today in History: August 1
Connecticut’s “Woodstock” Canceled – Today in History: July 30
Farmington Canal’s Ground-Breaking – Today in History: July 4
President Grant Celebrates Independence Day in Woodstock – Today in History: July 4
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The Automatic Gallows – Today in History: June 18
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Ivoryton Playhouse Opens – Today in History: June 17
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Connecticut 29th Mustered into Service – Today in History: March 8
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New Haven
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The Turtle Submarine – Today in History: September 6
Theodate Pope Riddle Dies – Today in History: August 30
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Halladay’s Revolutionary Windmill – Today in History: August 29
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Lisbon Tunnel Completed – Today in History: August 28
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Horror on the Housatonic: The Railroad Disaster of August 1865
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Danbury Prison Protest – Today in History: August 11
D-Day – Today in History: June 6
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First Human Test of a Nylon Parachute – Today in History: June 6
Samuel Colt and Elizabeth Jarvis Marry – Today in History: June 5
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Begins Serialization – Today in History: June 5
The Lemon Law – Today in History: June 4
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Battle at Ridgefield – Today in History: April 27
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Frederick Law Olmsted Born – Today in History: April 26
Benedict Arnold Demands the Key – Today in History: April 22
Thread Your Needle – Today in History: March 2
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The USS
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Groton, New London
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The Blizzard of 1888 – Today in History: March 11
Joshua Hempsted Born – Today in History: September 1
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Fitch Soldiers’ Home Closes – Today in History: August 28
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Medical Pioneer Eli Todd born – Today in History: July 22
Mystic River Bridge Opens – Today in History: July 19
American Painter John Trumbull Born – Today in History: June 6
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Connecticut’s First Female Telephone Operator – Today in History: March 24
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