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Today in CT History

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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

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TICTH-1221-WEB-Barkhamsted-Reservoir.mp3

Thursday, December 20, 2018

12 Year Old Girl Hanged in New London in 1786

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TICTH-1220-WEB-12-Year-Old-Hanged.mp3

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Wheeler Sewing Machine Patent Issued

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TICTH-1219-WEB-Wheeler-Sewing-Machine-Patent.mp3

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Connecticut’s 20th Century “Demonic Posession” Murder Trial

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TICTH-1218-WEB-The-Devil-Made-Him-Do-It.mp3

Monday, December 17, 2018

Ensign Jimmy Carter Finished Submarine School in Groton

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TICTH-1217-WEB-Jimmy-Carter-Completes-Sub-Training.mp3

Friday, December 14, 2018

Meteorites Hit Fairfield

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TICTH-1214-WEB-Meteorites-in-Fairfield.mp3

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Shubert Theatre in New Haven Reopens after Rennovation

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TICTH-1213-WEB-Schubert-Theater-Reopens.mp3

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Bat Battolino Becomes Featherweight Champ

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TICTH-1212-WEB-Bat-Battolino-Becomes-Featherweight-Champ.mp3

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Jet Helicopter’s First Test Flight in Bloomfield

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TICTH-1211-WEB-Jet-Helicopters-1st-Flight.mp3

Monday, December 10, 2018

Dentist Horrace Wells Witnesses the Effects of Anesthesia

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TICTH-1210-WEB-Horrace-Wells-Sees-Anesthesia.mp3

Friday, December 7, 2018

Morgan Gardner Bulkeley Elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1207-WEB-Morgan-Bulkeley-Elected-to-Hall-of-Fame-1.mp3

Thursday, December 6, 2018

Palko vs. Connecticut Names Your Most Important Rights

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1206-WEB-Palko-vs.-Connecticut-1.mp3

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

America’s First Law School’s First Hire Born in Branford

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1205-WEB-James-Gould-Born-1.mp3

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Great East Thompson Train Wreck

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1204-WEB-Four-Train-Wreck-1.mp3

Monday, December 3, 2018

Barkhamsted “Lighthouse” Established

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1203-WEB-Barkhamsted-Lighthouse-1.mp3

Friday, November 30, 2018

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Marry in Greenwich

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1130-WEB-Desi-and-Lucy-Marry-in-Greenwich-1.mp3

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Connecticut’s Presidential Portrait Painter

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1129-WEB-Presidential-Portraits-1.mp3

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Muzzy Field Hosts Exhibition Game with Green Bay Packers

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1128-WEB-Green-Bay-Packers-Play-in-New-Britain-1.mp3

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Connecticut Passes its Own Equal Rights Amendment

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1127-WEB-Anti-Gender-Discrimination-1.mp3

Monday, November 26, 2018

Oldest Congregational Church in America Celebrates 275th Anniversary

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1126-WEB-Oldest-Congregational-Church-1.mp3

Friday, November 23, 2018

Connecticut’s First African-American Civil War Regiment

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1123-WEB-African-American-Soldiers-in-Civil-War.mp3

Thursday, November 22, 2018

National Society of Colonial Dames Forms

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1122-WEB-Colonial-Dames.mp3

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Yale Bowl Opens in New Haven

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1121-WEB-Yale-Bowl-Opens.mp3

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Great American Mastodon on Display in Hartford

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1120-WEB-The-Great-American-Mastodon.mp3

Monday, November 19, 2018

Colored Infantry Regiments Return Home

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1119-WEB-Colored-Infantry-Regiments-Return-Home.mp3

Friday, November 16, 2018

Joseph Talcott, Born – Connecticut’s First Native-Born Governor

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1116-WEB-Joseph-Talcott-Connecticuts-1st-Native-Born-Governor.mp3

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Rosa Ponselle, Opera Singer Extraordinaire, is Born

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1115-WEB-Rosa-Ponselle-Debuts-at-Met.mp3

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Paul Sperry Invents the Boat Shoe

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1114-WEB-Boat-Shoe-Sets-Sail.mp3

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Emmeline Parkhurst Delivers “Freedom or Death” Speech in Hartford

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1113-WEB-Emmeline-Pankhursts-Greatest-Speech-in-Hartford.mp3

Monday, November 12, 2018

Presidential Celebration Draws Huge Crowd in Middletown

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1112-WEB-President-Taft-Thronged-at-Middletown.mp3

Friday, November 9, 2018

Martha Beardsley Buried in New Haven’s Grove Street Cemetery

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1109-WEB-Martha-Beardsley-Burried-at-Grove-St-Cemetery.mp3

Thursday, November 8, 2018

Last Wooden Whaling Ship Arrives in Mystic

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1108-WEB-Charles-W.-Morgan-Arrives-at-Mystic-Seaport.mp3

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

George Washington Stays Overnight in Ashford

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1107-WEB-George-Washington-in-Ashford.mp3

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

JFK’s Last-Minute, Late-Night Rally in Waterbury

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1106-WEB-JFK-Speaks-in-Waterbury.mp3

Monday, November 5, 2018

Ella Grasso Elected First Female Governor

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1105-WEB-Ella-Grasso-Elected.mp3

Friday, November 2, 2018

“Best Built Car in America” Hits the Road

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1102-WEB-Gas-Powered-Locomobile-Rolls-off-Assembly-Line.mp3

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Heroes Tunnel Opens and Completes the Wilbur Cross Parkway

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1101-WEB-Heroes-Tunnel-Opens.mp3

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

The Charter Oak, Connecticut’s Greatest Legend Happened(?)

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1031-WEB-Charter-Oak-Incident.mp3

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Chinese-American Educational Pioneer Yung Wing is Born

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1030-WEB-Yung-Wing-Becomes-a-Citezen.mp3

Monday, October 29, 2018

First Issue of the Connecticut Courant Published

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1029-WEB-Connecticut-Courant-First-Issue.mp3

Friday, October 26, 2018

Hartford’s Underwood Typewrites Speed Past the Competition

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1026-WEB-Underwood-Typewriter-Wins-Speed-Test.mp3

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Final Voyage of the Bounty

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1025-WEB-Bounty-Sails-from-New-London.mp3

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Baseball Legend Jackie Robinson Dies in Stamford

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1024-WEB-Jackie-Robinson-Dies.mp3

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

First Protestant Missionaries Set Sail for Hawaiian Islands

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1023-WEB-Sybil-Hiram-Bingham-Sail-for-Hawaii.mp3

Monday, October 22, 2018

Railroad Tycoon Collis Potter Huntington Was Born

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1022-WEB-Collis-Huntington-Transcontinental-Railroad.mp3

Friday, October 19, 2018

Meriden’s “Perfect” Silver Wins First Place

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1019-WEB-Meriden-Silver.mp3

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Abolitionist Jerry Brown Captured at Harper’s Ferry

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1018-WEB-End-of-Harpers-Ferry-Raid.mp3

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Jupiter Hammon, First Published African-American Author is Born

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1017-WEB-Jupiter-Hammon-FIXED.mp3

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Ebenezer Bassett, America’s First African-American Diplomat is Born

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1016-WEB-Ebenezer-Bassett.mp3

Monday, October 15, 2018

Thomas H. Seymour Become Minister to Russia

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1015-WEB-Thomas-Seymour.mp3

Friday, October 12, 2018

Connecticut’s Constitution of 1818 Goes Into Effect

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1012-WEB-1818-Constitution-Goes-into-Effect.mp3

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Admiral Richard Byrd Tours Connecticut

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1011-WEB-Richard-Byrd.mp3

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Benjamin Wright, Father of American Civil Engineering, is Born

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TICTH-1010-WEB-Benjamin-Wright.mp3

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

The Hindenburg Flies Over Connecticut

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TICTH-1009-WEB-Hindenburg-Over-Hartford.mp3

Monday, October 8, 2018

Hartford’s Record-Setting Stone Arch Bridge

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TICTH-1008-WEB-Bulkeley-Bridge.mp3

Friday, October 5, 2018

Protesting Against the State Income Tax

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TICTH-1005-WEB-Tax-Protest.mp3

Thursday, October 4, 2018

The Great Danbury Fair, 1821 – 1981

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TICTH-1004-WEB-Danbury-Fair.mp3

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Windsor Locks Devastated by Massive F-4 Tornado

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TICTH-1003-WEB-Windsor-Tornado.mp3

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

The First Company Governor’s Foot Guard

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TICTH-1002-WEB-Governors-Foot-Guard.mp3

Monday, October 1, 2018

Same-Sex Civil Unions Become Law in Connecticut

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TICTH-1001-WEB-Civil-Unions.mp3

Friday, September 28, 2018

The Seed That Became UCONN Planted at Mansfield

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0928-WEB-UCONN-Started.mp3

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Theodate Pope Riddle’s Architectural Masterpiece

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0927-WEB-Avon-Old-Farms.mp3

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Connecticut’s First English Settlement

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0926-WEB-Trading-House-at-Windsor.mp3

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Remembering the Civil War’s Pivotal “Petersburg Express”

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0925-WEB-Petersburg-Express.mp3

Monday, September 24, 2018

Connecticut’s Last Whaling Voyage

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0924-WEB-Last-Whaler-Leaves-New-London.mp3

Friday, September 21, 2018

The Treaty of Hartford Ends the Pequot War

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0921-WEB-Treaty-of-Hartford.mp3

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Establishing Connecticut’s Presence at the Big E

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0920-WEB-Cornerstone-of-Connecticut-Building-at-Big-E.mp3

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Remembering Old Saybrook’s “Battle of the Books”

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0919-WEB-The-Battle-of-the-Books.mp3

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Twain Becomes a Mark for Local Thieves

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0918-WEB-Mark-Twain-Robbed.mp3

Monday, September 17, 2018

Soldiers & Sailors Arch Dedicated in Hartford

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0917-WEB-Soldiers-and-Sailors-Arch.mp3

Friday, September 14, 2018

Connecticut Ratifies the 19th Amendment

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0914-WEB-Suffrage-Passed.mp3

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Union General John Sedgwick Born in Cornwall

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0913-WEB-John-Sedgwick-Born.mp3

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Transformative Summer in Simsbury

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0912-WEB-MLK-Leaves-Simsbury.mp3

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

9/11 Terrorist Attacks Hit Close to Home

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0911-WEB-September-11.mp3

Monday, September 10, 2018

Boxing Sensation Willie Pep K.O.s the Competition

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0910-WEB-Willie-Pep.mp3

Friday, September 7, 2018

ESPN Goes Live from Bristol

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0907-WEB-ESPN-Launches.mp3

Thursday, September 6, 2018

Benedict Arnold’s Deadly Raid on New London and Groton

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0906-WEB-Benedict-Arnold-Burns-New-London-and-Fort-Griswold.mp3

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Lead-foot Celebrities on the Merritt Parkway

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0905-WEB-Stars-on-Merritt.mp3

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

The USS Everett Larson Honors A Brave Connecticut Marine

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0904-WEB-Keel-Laid-for-Everett-Larsen.mp3

Monday, September 3, 2018

Lafayette Returns to Connecticut on his American Tour

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TICTH-0903-WEB-LaFayette-Arrives-in-Connecticut.mp3

Friday, August 31, 2018

Glenna Collett Vare Wins Record 6th Golf Championship

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0831-WEB-Collett-Wins-6th-Golf-Title.mp3

Thursday, August 30, 2018

The UConn Huskies’ First Football Game at Rentschler Field

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0830-WEB-Huskies-Football-1st-Game-at-Rentschler.mp3

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

America’s First Self-Regulating Windmill

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0829-WEB-Windmill-Patent-Issued.mp3

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

John Hancock Gets Married in Fairfield

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0828-WEB-John-Hancock-Marries-in-Fairfield.mp3

Monday, August 27, 2018

First Chemotherapy Treatment in the United States

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0827-WEB-First-Patient-to-Receive-Chemotherapy.mp3

Friday, August 24, 2018

Capture of the Slave Ship Amistad

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0824-WEB-Feds-Seize-Ship-Amistad.mp3

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Famous Aviator Wiley Post Visits Connecticut

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0823-WEB-Wiley-Post-Arrives-at-Brainard-Field.mp3

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Hartford Hosts the First Presidential Car Ride

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0822-WEB-1st-President-to-Ride-in-Car.mp3

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

The Charter Oak Falls

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0821-WEB-Charter-Oak-Falls.mp3

Monday, August 20, 2018

John Fitch Shows Off America’s First Steamboat

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0820-WEB-Fitch-Demonstrates-1st-Steamboat.mp3

Friday, August 17, 2018

Suffragist Catherine Flanagan Arrested for Picketing

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0817-WEB-Flanagan-Pickets-for-Suffrage.mp3

Thursday, August 16, 2018

Mary Hall, Connecticut’s First Female Lawyer

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0816-WEB-Mary-Hall-CTs-1st-Woman-Lawyer.mp3

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Connecticut State Parks Centennial Celebration

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0815-WEB-State-Parks-Turn-100.mp3

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Aviation Pioneer Gustave Whitehead Flies Into History

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0814-WEB-Whitehead-Flies-Over-Fairfield.mp3

Monday, August 13, 2018

Daniel Bissell Becomes a Spy for the Continental Army

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0813-WEB-Bissell-Defects-to-Redcoats.mp3

Friday, August 10, 2018

World Premiere of “Annie” in East Haddam

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0810-WEB-World-Premier-of-Annie-at-Goodspeed.mp3

Thursday, August 9, 2018

The Worst Tornado in Connecticut History

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0809-WEB-Wallingford-Disaster-Tornado.mp3

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

The Shoe Box Murder of 1886

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0808-WEB-Shoebox-Murder-in-Wallingford.mp3

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Statewide Strikes Bring Connecticut to a Halt

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0807-WEB-Inflation-and-Strikes-Strike-Connecticut.mp3

Monday, August 6, 2018

Dale Earnhardt Smokes the Competition in Stafford

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0806-WEB-Dale-Earnhardt-Wins-Two-Races-in-One-Night.mp3

Friday, August 3, 2018

Connecticut Chooses its Delegates for First Continental Congress

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0803-WEB-First-Continental-Congress.mp3

Thursday, August 2, 2018

The Last Public Hanging in Connecticut

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0802-WEB-Last-Public-Hanging-in-Brooklyn.mp3

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

“Base Ball” in 19th Century Hartford

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0801-WEB-Charter-Oak-Bseball-Club.mp3

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

All Aboard The Branford Trolley Line!

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0731-WEB-Branford-Electric-Railway-Launched.mp3

Monday, July 30, 2018

Powder Ridge: The Epic Rock Concert That Never Was

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0730-WEB-The-Woodstock-That-Wasnt.mp3

Friday, July 27, 2018

The Connecticut River Becomes an “American Heritage River”

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0727-WEB-Connecticut-River-Gets-Heritage-Designation.mp3

Thursday, July 26, 2018

The “Wide Awakes” Rally for Abraham Lincoln in Hartford

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0726-WEB-Wide-Awakes-Gather.mp3

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

The Carpenters Top the Charts

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0725-WEB-Carpenters-Number-One.mp3

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Hiram Bingham III “Finds” Machu Picchu

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0724-WEB-Bingham-Discovers-Macchu-Picu.mp3

Monday, July 23, 2018

Joseph Schick Patents a New Safety Razor

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0723-WEB-Shick-Patents-Safety-Razor.mp3

Friday, July 20, 2018

Reverend Sun Myung Moon Arrested in Danbury

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0720-WEB-Rev-Sun-Myung-Moon-Goes-to-Jail.mp3

Thursday, July 19, 2018

The American Impressionist Movement Blooms in Ridgefield

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0719-WEB-Weir-Farm-Purchased.mp3

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Hammonasset State Park Opens to the Public

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/TICTH-0718-WEB-Hammonasset-State-Park.mp3

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

The First Annual Nutmeg Games

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Monday, July 16, 2018

The “Connecticut Compromise” Saves the U.S. Constitution

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Friday, July 13, 2018

Connecticut Suffragists Appeal to Woodrow Wilson

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Thursday, July 12, 2018

Buckminster Fuller’s Car of the Future

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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

The Voyage of the Neptune

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Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Connecticut’s Worst Tornado Outbreak

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Monday, July 9, 2018

“The Year Without a Summer”

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Friday, July 6, 2018

The Hartford Circus Fire

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Thursday, July 5, 2018

New Haven’s New State House

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Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Delegates Selected for Connecticut’s New State Constitution

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Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Born in Hartford

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Monday, July 2, 2018

Connecticut Refuses to Fight in War of 1812

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Friday, June 29, 2018

Governor Signs Bill Requiring History in Schools

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Thursday, June 28, 2018

Mianus River Bridge Collapses

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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Prudence Crandall Arrested For Teaching “Little Misses of Color”

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Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Educator Sarah Pierce Born in Litchfield

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Monday, June 25, 2018

Marilyn Monroe Takes Connecticut By Storm

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Friday, June 22, 2018

The Murder of Elias Boudinot

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Thursday, June 21, 2018

Governor John Rowland Resigns

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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

End of the Line for the Naugatuck Valley Trolley

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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

CT Troops Patrol the Mexican Border

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Monday, June 18, 2018

The Nation’s Oldest Municipal Rose Garden in Bloom

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Friday, June 15, 2018

Honoring Gladys Tantaquidgeon of the Mohegan Tribe

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Thursday, June 14, 2018

President Truman Dedicates the World’s First Nuclear Submarine

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Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Senator Thomas Dodd Censured

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Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Celebrating Meriden’s Centennial

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Monday, June 11, 2018

The Nation’s First Hospice Facility

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Friday, June 8, 2018

John Adams Writes of Connecticut’s Natural Beauty

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Thursday, June 7, 2018

Establishing A Constitutional Right to Privacy

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Wednesday, June 6, 2018

A Connecticut Family’s Joint Contribution on D-Day

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Tuesday, June 5, 2018

“Registration Day” for the Great War

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Monday, June 4, 2018

Connecticut Passes the Nation’s First “Lemon Law”

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Friday, June 1, 2018

Governor Cleveland Incorporates Wadsworth Athenaeum

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Thursday, May 31, 2018

Thomas Hooker’s Sermon on Free Government

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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

12,000 Union Workers in Bridgeport Mobilize to Support Strikers

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Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Revolutionary War Hero Israel Putnam Dies In Brooklyn

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Monday, May 28, 2018

Preparing Connecticut Women for Full Citizenship

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/TICTH-0528-WEB-CT-Womens-Suffrage-Launches-Campaign.mp3

Friday, May 25, 2018

Chester Bowles: Connecticut’s Civil Rights-Era Governor

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Thursday, May 24, 2018

The First Steam-Powered Ship to Cross the Atlantic

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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

New Polio Vaccine Distributed Across Connecticut

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Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Washington & Rochambeau Plan Yorktown Campaign in Wethersfield

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Monday, May 21, 2018

First Speed Limit Law in the U.S.

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Friday, May 18, 2018

Composer Leroy Anderson dies in Woodbury

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Thursday, May 17, 2018

Connecticut Vietnam Memorial Unveiled in Coventry

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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Largest Earthquake in Connecticut History

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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Billionaire Leona Helmsley Sent to Prison for Tax Evasion

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Monday, May 14, 2018

Timothy Dwight IV Born

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Friday, May 11, 2018

Connecticut’s Old State House Opens in 1796

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Thursday, May 10, 2018

Connecticans Ethan Allen & Benedict Arnold Capture Fort Ticonderoga

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Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Abolitionist John Brown Born in Torrington

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Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Author and Illustrator Maurice Sendak Dies

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Monday, May 7, 2018

Birth of Edwin Land, Inventor & Founder of Polaroid

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Friday, May 4, 2018

Painter Frederic Edwin Church born in Hartford

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Thursday, May 3, 2018

Connecticut Patriots Receive the First “Purple Hearts”

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Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Pediatrician Benjamin Spock Born in New Haven

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Tuesday, May 1, 2018

The Pequot War

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Monday, April 30, 2018

The New England Patriots Back Out of Hartford Stadium Deal

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Friday, April 27, 2018

The Battle of Ridgefield, 1777

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Thursday, April 26, 2018

British Troops Attack Danbury, Connecticut

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TICTH-0426-WEB-Battle-of-Danbury.mp3

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Winchester Arms Company Founded in New Haven

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

New Haven Colony Settled in 1638

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Monday, April 23, 2018

Connecticut’s Worst Construction Disaster: L’Ambience Plaza

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TICTH-0423-WEB-CTs-Worst-Construction-Accitednt.mp3

Friday, April 20, 2018

Connecticut Soldiers Fight at WWI Battle of Seicheprey

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TICTH-0420-WEB-Battle-of-Seichprey-1.mp3

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Connecticut (Finally) Approves U.S. Bill of Rights

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TICTH-0419-WEB-CT-Ratifies-Bill-of-Rights.mp3

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

A Deadly Boxing Match in Waterbury

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TICTH-0418-WEB-Prizefighter-Arrested.mp3

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Businessman and Financier J. P. Morgan Born in Hartford

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TICTH-0417-WEB-J.P.-Morgan.mp3

Monday, April 16, 2018

The Grange Movement in Connecticut

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TICTH-0416-WEB-CT-State-Grange.mp3

Friday, April 13, 2018

Eli Terry and Industrial Revolution

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TICTH-0413-WEB-Eli-Terry-and-Industrial-Revolution.mp3

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Portable Typewriter Patented

https://content.ctpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TICTH-0412-WEB-Portable-Typewriter-Patented.mp3

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

New London Submarine Base Founded

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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Merino Sheep Leave Portugal for Derby

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Monday, April 9, 2018

Abraham Ribicoff Born

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Friday, April 6, 2018

UCONN Wins Both NCAA Championships

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Thursday, April 5, 2018

PT Barnum Becomes Mayor of Bridgeport

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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

MLK Assassination Sparks Hartford Riots

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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Elias Howe Buys Sewing Machine Patent

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Monday, April 2, 2018

1918-19 Influenza Epidemic in Hartford

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