Tune into Connecticut Public Radio each weekday to learn about fascinating events that took place on that day in Connecticut history. These half-minute segments air Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during the 9:00 am broadcast of Where We Live and Tuesdays and Thursdays during the 2:00 pm broadcast of The Colin McEnroe Show.
Friday, December 21, 2018
Barkhamsted Reservoir Completed
Thursday, December 20, 2018
12 Year Old Girl Hanged in New London in 1786
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Wheeler Sewing Machine Patent Issued
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Connecticut’s 20th Century “Demonic Posession” Murder Trial
Monday, December 17, 2018
Ensign Jimmy Carter Finished Submarine School in Groton
Friday, December 14, 2018
Meteorites Hit Fairfield
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Shubert Theatre in New Haven Reopens after Rennovation
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Bat Battolino Becomes Featherweight Champ
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Jet Helicopter’s First Test Flight in Bloomfield
Monday, December 10, 2018
Dentist Horrace Wells Witnesses the Effects of Anesthesia
Friday, December 7, 2018
Morgan Gardner Bulkeley Elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Palko vs. Connecticut Names Your Most Important Rights
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
America’s First Law School’s First Hire Born in Branford
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Great East Thompson Train Wreck
Monday, December 3, 2018
Barkhamsted “Lighthouse” Established
Friday, November 30, 2018
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Marry in Greenwich
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Connecticut’s Presidential Portrait Painter
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Muzzy Field Hosts Exhibition Game with Green Bay Packers
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Connecticut Passes its Own Equal Rights Amendment
Monday, November 26, 2018
Oldest Congregational Church in America Celebrates 275th Anniversary
Friday, November 23, 2018
Connecticut’s First African-American Civil War Regiment
Thursday, November 22, 2018
National Society of Colonial Dames Forms
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Yale Bowl Opens in New Haven
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Great American Mastodon on Display in Hartford
Monday, November 19, 2018
Colored Infantry Regiments Return Home
Friday, November 16, 2018
Joseph Talcott, Born – Connecticut’s First Native-Born Governor
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Rosa Ponselle, Opera Singer Extraordinaire, is Born
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Paul Sperry Invents the Boat Shoe
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Emmeline Parkhurst Delivers “Freedom or Death” Speech in Hartford
Monday, November 12, 2018
Presidential Celebration Draws Huge Crowd in Middletown
Friday, November 9, 2018
Martha Beardsley Buried in New Haven’s Grove Street Cemetery
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Last Wooden Whaling Ship Arrives in Mystic
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
George Washington Stays Overnight in Ashford
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
JFK’s Last-Minute, Late-Night Rally in Waterbury
Monday, November 5, 2018
Ella Grasso Elected First Female Governor
Friday, November 2, 2018
“Best Built Car in America” Hits the Road
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Heroes Tunnel Opens and Completes the Wilbur Cross Parkway
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
The Charter Oak, Connecticut’s Greatest Legend Happened(?)
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Chinese-American Educational Pioneer Yung Wing is Born
Monday, October 29, 2018
First Issue of the Connecticut Courant Published
Friday, October 26, 2018
Hartford’s Underwood Typewrites Speed Past the Competition
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Final Voyage of the Bounty
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Baseball Legend Jackie Robinson Dies in Stamford
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
First Protestant Missionaries Set Sail for Hawaiian Islands
Monday, October 22, 2018
Railroad Tycoon Collis Potter Huntington Was Born
Friday, October 19, 2018
Meriden’s “Perfect” Silver Wins First Place
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Abolitionist Jerry Brown Captured at Harper’s Ferry
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Jupiter Hammon, First Published African-American Author is Born
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Ebenezer Bassett, America’s First African-American Diplomat is Born
Monday, October 15, 2018
Thomas H. Seymour Become Minister to Russia
Friday, October 12, 2018
Connecticut’s Constitution of 1818 Goes Into Effect
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Admiral Richard Byrd Tours Connecticut
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Benjamin Wright, Father of American Civil Engineering, is Born
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
The Hindenburg Flies Over Connecticut
Monday, October 8, 2018
Hartford’s Record-Setting Stone Arch Bridge
Friday, October 5, 2018
Protesting Against the State Income Tax
Thursday, October 4, 2018
The Great Danbury Fair, 1821 – 1981
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Windsor Locks Devastated by Massive F-4 Tornado
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
The First Company Governor’s Foot Guard
Monday, October 1, 2018
Same-Sex Civil Unions Become Law in Connecticut
Friday, September 28, 2018
The Seed That Became UCONN Planted at Mansfield
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Theodate Pope Riddle’s Architectural Masterpiece
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Connecticut’s First English Settlement
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Remembering the Civil War’s Pivotal “Petersburg Express”
Monday, September 24, 2018
Connecticut’s Last Whaling Voyage
Friday, September 21, 2018
The Treaty of Hartford Ends the Pequot War
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Establishing Connecticut’s Presence at the Big E
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Remembering Old Saybrook’s “Battle of the Books”
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Twain Becomes a Mark for Local Thieves
Monday, September 17, 2018
Soldiers & Sailors Arch Dedicated in Hartford
Friday, September 14, 2018
Connecticut Ratifies the 19th Amendment
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Union General John Sedgwick Born in Cornwall
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Transformative Summer in Simsbury
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
9/11 Terrorist Attacks Hit Close to Home
Monday, September 10, 2018
Boxing Sensation Willie Pep K.O.s the Competition
Friday, September 7, 2018
ESPN Goes Live from Bristol
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Benedict Arnold’s Deadly Raid on New London and Groton
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Lead-foot Celebrities on the Merritt Parkway
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
The USS Everett Larson Honors A Brave Connecticut Marine
Monday, September 3, 2018
Lafayette Returns to Connecticut on his American Tour
Friday, August 31, 2018
Glenna Collett Vare Wins Record 6th Golf Championship
Thursday, August 30, 2018
The UConn Huskies’ First Football Game at Rentschler Field
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
America’s First Self-Regulating Windmill
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
John Hancock Gets Married in Fairfield
Monday, August 27, 2018
First Chemotherapy Treatment in the United States
Friday, August 24, 2018
Capture of the Slave Ship Amistad
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Famous Aviator Wiley Post Visits Connecticut
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Hartford Hosts the First Presidential Car Ride
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
The Charter Oak Falls
Monday, August 20, 2018
John Fitch Shows Off America’s First Steamboat
Friday, August 17, 2018
Suffragist Catherine Flanagan Arrested for Picketing
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Mary Hall, Connecticut’s First Female Lawyer
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Connecticut State Parks Centennial Celebration
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Aviation Pioneer Gustave Whitehead Flies Into History
Monday, August 13, 2018
Daniel Bissell Becomes a Spy for the Continental Army
Friday, August 10, 2018
World Premiere of “Annie” in East Haddam
Thursday, August 9, 2018
The Worst Tornado in Connecticut History
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
The Shoe Box Murder of 1886
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Statewide Strikes Bring Connecticut to a Halt
Monday, August 6, 2018
Dale Earnhardt Smokes the Competition in Stafford
Friday, August 3, 2018
Connecticut Chooses its Delegates for First Continental Congress
Thursday, August 2, 2018
The Last Public Hanging in Connecticut
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
“Base Ball” in 19th Century Hartford
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
All Aboard The Branford Trolley Line!
Monday, July 30, 2018
Powder Ridge: The Epic Rock Concert That Never Was
Friday, July 27, 2018
The Connecticut River Becomes an “American Heritage River”
Thursday, July 26, 2018
The “Wide Awakes” Rally for Abraham Lincoln in Hartford
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
The Carpenters Top the Charts
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Hiram Bingham III “Finds” Machu Picchu
Monday, July 23, 2018
Joseph Schick Patents a New Safety Razor
Friday, July 20, 2018
Reverend Sun Myung Moon Arrested in Danbury
Thursday, July 19, 2018
The American Impressionist Movement Blooms in Ridgefield
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Hammonasset State Park Opens to the Public
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
The First Annual Nutmeg Games
Monday, July 16, 2018
The “Connecticut Compromise” Saves the U.S. Constitution
Friday, July 13, 2018
Connecticut Suffragists Appeal to Woodrow Wilson
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Buckminster Fuller’s Car of the Future
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
The Voyage of the Neptune
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Connecticut’s Worst Tornado Outbreak
Monday, July 9, 2018
“The Year Without a Summer”
Friday, July 6, 2018
The Hartford Circus Fire
Thursday, July 5, 2018
New Haven’s New State House
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Delegates Selected for Connecticut’s New State Constitution
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Born in Hartford
Monday, July 2, 2018
Connecticut Refuses to Fight in War of 1812
Friday, June 29, 2018
Governor Signs Bill Requiring History in Schools
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Mianus River Bridge Collapses
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Prudence Crandall Arrested For Teaching “Little Misses of Color”
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Educator Sarah Pierce Born in Litchfield
Monday, June 25, 2018
Marilyn Monroe Takes Connecticut By Storm
Friday, June 22, 2018
The Murder of Elias Boudinot
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Governor John Rowland Resigns
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
End of the Line for the Naugatuck Valley Trolley
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
CT Troops Patrol the Mexican Border
Monday, June 18, 2018
The Nation’s Oldest Municipal Rose Garden in Bloom
Friday, June 15, 2018
Honoring Gladys Tantaquidgeon of the Mohegan Tribe
Thursday, June 14, 2018
President Truman Dedicates the World’s First Nuclear Submarine
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Senator Thomas Dodd Censured
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Celebrating Meriden’s Centennial
Monday, June 11, 2018
The Nation’s First Hospice Facility
Friday, June 8, 2018
John Adams Writes of Connecticut’s Natural Beauty
Thursday, June 7, 2018
Establishing A Constitutional Right to Privacy
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
A Connecticut Family’s Joint Contribution on D-Day
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
“Registration Day” for the Great War
Monday, June 4, 2018
Connecticut Passes the Nation’s First “Lemon Law”
Friday, June 1, 2018
Governor Cleveland Incorporates Wadsworth Athenaeum
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Thomas Hooker’s Sermon on Free Government
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
12,000 Union Workers in Bridgeport Mobilize to Support Strikers
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Revolutionary War Hero Israel Putnam Dies In Brooklyn
Monday, May 28, 2018
Preparing Connecticut Women for Full Citizenship
Friday, May 25, 2018
Chester Bowles: Connecticut’s Civil Rights-Era Governor
Thursday, May 24, 2018
The First Steam-Powered Ship to Cross the Atlantic
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
New Polio Vaccine Distributed Across Connecticut
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Washington & Rochambeau Plan Yorktown Campaign in Wethersfield
Monday, May 21, 2018
First Speed Limit Law in the U.S.
Friday, May 18, 2018
Composer Leroy Anderson dies in Woodbury
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Connecticut Vietnam Memorial Unveiled in Coventry
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Largest Earthquake in Connecticut History
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Billionaire Leona Helmsley Sent to Prison for Tax Evasion
Monday, May 14, 2018
Timothy Dwight IV Born
Friday, May 11, 2018
Connecticut’s Old State House Opens in 1796
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Connecticans Ethan Allen & Benedict Arnold Capture Fort Ticonderoga
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Abolitionist John Brown Born in Torrington
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Author and Illustrator Maurice Sendak Dies
Monday, May 7, 2018
Birth of Edwin Land, Inventor & Founder of Polaroid
Friday, May 4, 2018
Painter Frederic Edwin Church born in Hartford
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Connecticut Patriots Receive the First “Purple Hearts”
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Pediatrician Benjamin Spock Born in New Haven
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
The Pequot War
Monday, April 30, 2018
The New England Patriots Back Out of Hartford Stadium Deal
Friday, April 27, 2018
The Battle of Ridgefield, 1777
Thursday, April 26, 2018
British Troops Attack Danbury, Connecticut
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Winchester Arms Company Founded in New Haven
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
New Haven Colony Settled in 1638
Monday, April 23, 2018
Connecticut’s Worst Construction Disaster: L’Ambience Plaza
Friday, April 20, 2018
Connecticut Soldiers Fight at WWI Battle of Seicheprey
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Connecticut (Finally) Approves U.S. Bill of Rights
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
A Deadly Boxing Match in Waterbury
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Businessman and Financier J. P. Morgan Born in Hartford
Monday, April 16, 2018
The Grange Movement in Connecticut
Friday, April 13, 2018
Eli Terry and Industrial Revolution
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Portable Typewriter Patented
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
New London Submarine Base Founded
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Merino Sheep Leave Portugal for Derby
Monday, April 9, 2018
Abraham Ribicoff Born
Friday, April 6, 2018
UCONN Wins Both NCAA Championships
Thursday, April 5, 2018
PT Barnum Becomes Mayor of Bridgeport
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
MLK Assassination Sparks Hartford Riots
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Elias Howe Buys Sewing Machine Patent
Monday, April 2, 2018
1918-19 Influenza Epidemic in Hartford
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