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The Algonquin word "quinatucquet" meant "long
tidal
river place" and wound up as the name of the river and state.
(SFEC, 5/7/00, Z1 p.2)
16,000BC A mile-high glacier covered
the area.
(WSJ, 9/3/98, p.A16)
9,000BC Caribou lived in the area.
(WSJ, 9/3/98, p.A16)
1637 May 26, The Connecticut
English militia and their Mohegan allies killed over 600 Pequot Indians
at their village at Mystic. The survivors were parceled out to other
tribes. Those given to the Mohegans eventually became the Mashantucket
Pequots.
(AH, 6/07,
p.18)(www.dowdgen.com/dowd/document/pequots.html)
1639 Jan 14, (Julian Calendar)
"Fundamental Orders," the first constitution of Connecticut, was
adopted [see Jan 24].
(AP, 1/14/98)(www.constitution.org/bcp/fo_1639.htm)
1639 Jan 24, (Gregorian Calendar)
The Fundamental Orders, the first constitution in the New World, was
adopted in Connecticut [see Jan 14].
(HN, 1/24/99)(www.constitution.org/bcp/fo_1639.htm)
c1640 In Connecticut Roger
Williams prepared the first primer of the Algonquian Indian language.
(SFEM, 11/15/98, p.23)
1640 English colonists founded
Greenwich, Connecticut. It evolved into an exclusive retreat from
nearby NYC.
(WSJ, 4/12/08, p.A6)
1643 May 19, Delegates from four
New England colonies, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New
Harbor, met in Boston to form a confederation: the United Colonies of
New England.
(AP, 5/19/97)
1644 Feb 5, The 1st US livestock
branding law was passed by Connecticut.
(MC, 2/5/02)
1649 Apr 5, Elihu Yale (d.1721),
the English philanthropist for whom Yale University is named, was born.
(WUD, 1994, p.1652)(AP, 4/5/99)
1650 Sep, Peter Stuyvesant
traveled from New Amsterdam to Hartford, Conn., to negotiate boundaries
for their colonies.
(ON, 4/00, p.1)
1650 Connecticut became the 2nd
colony to give statutory recognition to slavery. It was preceded by
Mass. in 1641 and followed by Virginia in 1661.
(MC, 12/1/01)(HNQ, 5/20/02)
1651 Aug 13, Litchfield,
Connecticut, was founded.
(MC, 8/13/02)
1662 May 3, John Winthrop the
Younger, the son of the first governor of Massachusetts was honored by
being made a fellow of the Royal Society, England's new scientific
society. Winthrop gained a new charter from the king, uniting the
colonies of Connecticut and New Haven.
(HN, 5/3/99)
1656 Oct 2, US colony Connecticut
passed a law against Quakers.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1662 Apr 23, Connecticut was
chartered as an English colony.
(MC, 4/23/02)
1662 Jun, Mary Sanford (~39) of
Hartford, Connecticut, was convicted of “familiarity with Satan.”
Historians later surmised that she was hanged for her crimes. In 2006 a
descendant of Sanford worked on legislation to clear her ancestor as
well as a dozen or so other women and men convicted for witchcraft in
Connecticut from 1647 to the 1660s.
(WSJ, 9/15/06, p.A1)
1664 Mar 22, Charles II gave large
tracks of land from west of the Connecticut River to the east of
Delaware Bay in North America to his brother James, the Duke of York.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1667 Connecticut adopted America’s
first divorce law.
(SFC, 7/18/98, p.A15)
1682 Jun 10, The first tornado of
record in colonial America hit New Haven, Conn.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, Z1 p.8)
1687 Oct 27, The Connecticut
colony’s charter was stolen during a public meeting in which Gov.
Robert Treat defended the colony against demands by Sir Edmund Andros.
It was soon hidden under an oak tree (the Charter Oak) in Hartford to
protect it from seizure by agents of the King James II.
(www.hartfordhistory.net/faq.html#charter)
1701 Oct 9, The Collegiate School
of Connecticut -- later Yale University -- was chartered in New Haven,
Conn. It was the first US school to award a doctorate degree. [see Oct
16]
(SFC, 5/25/96, p.A9)(SF C, 3/8/96, p.E3)(AP, 10/9/97)
1701 Oct 16, Yale University was
founded as The Collegiate School of Kilingworth, Connecticut by
Congregationalists who considered Harvard too liberal. [see Oct 9]
(HN, 10/16/00)
1718-1780 Colonel Samuel Browne operated his
30-square-mile New Salem plantation. Evidence of slave labor was later
found.
(AM, 9/01, p.10)
1736 Mahomet Weyonomon, a Mohegan
sachem or leader, died of smallpox while waiting to see King George II
to complain directly about British settlers encroaching on tribal lands
in the Connecticut colony. The tribal chief was buried in an unmarked
grave in a south London churchyard.
(AP, 11/22/06)
1754 Jun 19, The Albany Congress
opened. New York colonial Gov. George Clinton called for the meeting to
discuss better relations with Indian tribes and common defensive
measures against the French. The attendees included Indians and
representatives from Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Benjamin Franklin
attended and presented his Plan of Union, which was adopted by the
conference. The meeting ended on July 11.
(AH, 2/06,
p.45)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany_Congress)
1758 Oct 16, Noah Webster
(d.1843), US teacher lexicographer and publisher. He wrote the
“American Dictionary of the English Language,” was born in Hartford,
Conn.
(CFA, '96, p.56)(AHD, 1971, p.1452)(AP, 10/16/08)
1764 Thomas Green founded the
Hartford Courant newspaper.
(SFC, 7/6/00, p.C2)
1774 The Litchfield house, where
Harriet Beecher Stow was born, was built. In 1997 the house was sold
for a bicentennial $1 coin with plans to convert it into a museum.
(SFC,10/24/97, p.A4)
1777 Apr 26, Sybil Ludington (16)
rode from NY to Ct rallying her father’s militia.
(MC, 4/26/02)
1781 Benedict Arnold led raids on
the privateering towns of New London and Groton. At Fort Griswold 83
patriots including Col. William Ledyard were killed upon surrendering
to the British forces.
(AH, 10/01, p.A10)
1788 Jan 9, Connecticut became the
fifth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
(AP, 1/9/99)
1790 Mar 1, Congress authorized
the first U.S. census. The Connecticut Compromise was a proposal for
two houses in the legislature-one based on equal representation for
each state, the other for population-based representation-that resolved
the dispute between large and small states at the Constitutional
Convention. Connecticut delegate Roger Sherman's proposal led to the
first nationwide census in 1790.
(AP, 3/1/98)(HNQ, 9/17/98)
1793 Jul 23, Roger Sherman (b.1721
in Mass.) of Connecticut, signer of the Declaration of Independence,
died. He was only man to sign the four most important documents that
were most significant in the formation of the United States. Sherman
signed the Association (the 1774 compact to boycott British goods), the
Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation and
Constitution. Sherman was among the first to declare that Parliament
had no right to legislate for the colonies. He was a delegate to the
Continental Congress, served in the first U.S. House of
Representatives and was a U.S. senator.
(HN, 4/19/97)(HNQ, 7/10/99)
1798 Jan 30, A brawl broke out in
the House of Representatives in Philadelphia, as Matthew Lyon of
Vermont spat in the face of Roger Griswold of Connecticut.
(AP, 1/30/98)
1803 May 22, The 1st US public
library opened in Connecticut.
(MC, 5/22/02)
1806 Nov 15, 1st US college
magazine, Yale Literary Government, published its 1st issue.
(MC, 11/15/01)
1807 Dec 14, A number of
meteorites fell onto Weston, Connecticut.
(Econ, 12/23/06, p.122)
1809 Connecticut Sen. James
Hillhouse proposed a constitutional amendment under which the president
would be elected by lot from among the senators.
(WSJ, 1/28/03, p.D6)
1811 Jun 14, Harriet Beecher Stowe
(d.1896), American writer and author of “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” was born
in Litchfield, Conn. The book showed the horrors of slavery and
President Abraham Lincoln joked she had started the American Civil War.
(AHD, p.1272)(HN, 6/14/99)
1815 Jan 5, Federalists from all
over New England, angered over the War of 1812, drew up the Hartford
Convention, demanding several important changes in the U.S.
Constitution.
(HN, 1/5/99)
1815 Aug, The merchant ship
Commerce, under Capt. James Riley (1877-1939) of Connecticut, wrecked
off the northwest coast of Africa. He survived captivity under Muslim
slave traders and endured a lengthy trek across the Sahara. He later
authored “Sufferings in Africa” (1817) and "An authentic Narrative of
the Loss of the American Brig Commerce" (1818). In 2004 Dean King
authored "Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival."
(SSFC, 2/22/04, p.M1)(WSJ, 6/2/07, p.P8)
1815 Henry Opukahaia became the
first Hawaiian to convert to Christianity. He had left Hawaii for
Connecticut in 1808 but died before he could return. His conversion
spurred the Protestant missionaries to come to Hawaii in 1820.
(SSFC, 8/30/09, p.M5)
1817 Apr 17, 1st US school for
deaf was founded in Hartford, Conn.
(MC, 4/17/02)
1822 Apr 26, Frederick Olmstead,
landscape architect, was born in Connecticut. His work included
Yosemite Nat’l. Park, Central Park in New York City (1858), and other
city parks in Boston, Ma., Hartford, Ct., and Louisville, Ky.
(440 Int’l. Internet, 4/26/97, p.5)(SFC, 4/5/04,
p.B5)
1827 Greenwich Academy, the oldest
school for girls in Connecticut, was founded.
(NG, Feb, 04, p.120)
1831 At Yale the Skull and Bones
society was founded. Boneswomen were not admitted until 1991.
(USAT, 1/15/97, p.6D)
1833 Jun 27, Prudence Crandall, a
white woman, was arrested for conducting an academy for black women in
Canterbury, Conn. The academy was eventually closed.
(HN, 6/27/99)
1835 Riley Whiting (b.1785),
Connecticut clock maker, died.
(SFC, 5/17/06, p.G5)
1837 Apr 17, J. Pierpont Morgan
(d.1913), American financier, was born in Hartford, Conn. J.P. Mogan
later owned U.S. Steel and International Harvester. In 1999 Jean
Strouse published the biography "Morgan: American Financier."
(WSJ, 3/30/99, p.A24)(HN,
4/7/99)(www.netstate.com/states/peop/people/ct_jpm.htm)
1838 Jan 4, Charles Sherwood
Stratton (d.1883), later known as the dwarf Tom Thumb, was born in
Bridgeport, Conn. In 1842, P.T. Barnum discovered Charles, who measured
25
inches
and weighed 15 pounds, only six pounds more than his birth weight.
(www.barnum-museum.org)
1839 A granite structure was
erected at Fort Trumbull in New London, Conn. The fort was later turned
into a submarine base.
(AH, 10/01, p.A10)(Econ, 2/19/05, p.31)
1842 The Wadsworth Athenium of Art
was established in Hartford, Conn. It was America’s 1st public art
museum.
(WSJ, 2/2/99, p.A20)(WSJ, 6/1/06, p.D7)
1843 The J.E. Stevens Co. was
founded in Cromwell, Conn., by John and Elisa Stevens. The company
became famous for its line of cast-iron toys.
(SFC, 8/24/05, p.G6)
1844 Mar 7, Anthony Comstock,
anti-vice "crusader,” was born in New Canaan, Ct.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1844 Dec 11, The 1st dental use of
nitrous oxide was at Hartford, Ct.
(MC, 12/11/01)
1844 Edward Miller opened a
business in Meriden, Conn., to make lamp burners. In 1866 it became
Edward Miller & Co. and soon expanded to produce gas lighting
fixtures and stoves.
(SFC, 2/1/06, p.G6)
1848 A new rail line linked
Greenwich, Connecticut, to Manhattan.
(WSJ, 4/12/08, p.A6)
1850 The Ansonia Clock Co. was
founded in Derby, Conn., by Anson G. Phelps. After 2 fires and
reorganizations the company moved to NY in 1880.
(SFC, 12/15/98, Z1 p.6)
1852 Meriden Britannia Co. of
Meriden, Connecticut, began operating as a silver plate maker. In 1898
it joined other silver companies to form the Int’l. Silver Co.
(SFC, 10/22/08, p.G3)
1853 Oct 1, Robert Schuyler, the
president and general transfer agent of the New York & New Haven
Railroad Company, began issuing, shares of stock beyond the capital
limited by its charter.
(http://tinyurl.com/dbok8a)(http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/US/111/111.US.156.html)
1854 The Bradley & Hubbard
Manufacturing Co. was founded in Meriden, Conn. The company made
clocks, tables, frames, irons, chandeliers and other metal objects.
Their lamps are prized by collectors.
(SFC, 8/6/97, Z1 p.6)
1855 Thomas Day purchased the
Hartford Courant newspaper. He wrote in one editorial: “We believe the
Caucasian variety of the human species superior to the Negro variety;
and we would breed the best stock.” In 2000 the Courant apologized for
running ads for the sale of slaves up to 1823.
(SFC, 7/6/00, p.C2)
1856 Aug 19, Gail Borden
(1801-1874) received a patent for condensed milk and opened a small
factory for its production in Walcottville, Conn. At this time milk in
NYC sold for 6-7 cents a quart.
(ON, 5/04, p.5)(AP, 8/19/06)
1857 The Stanley Rule & Level
Co. was founded in New Britain, Conn.
(SFC, 11/1/03, p.E4)
1859 Apr 7, Walter Camp,
father of American football, was born in Connecticut.
(HN, 4/7/97)(MC, 4/7/02)
1862 Feb 14, Galena, the 1st US
iron-clad warship for service at sea, was launched in Conn.
(MC, 2/14/02)
1862 Rogers, Smith & Co. of
New Haven, Conn., organized to manufacture silver-plated holloware. The
company was sold in 1863 to Meriden Britannia Co., but the New Haven
operation continued to 1877.
(SFC, 11/29/06, p.G3)
1863 Jun 17, Travelers Insurance
Co. of Hartford, the 1st accident insurer, was chartered.
(MC, 6/17/02)
1864 In Connecticut the West
Cornwall Bridge was built over the Housatonic River. The covered bridge
connected the 2 rural communities of Sharon and Cornwall.
(SSFC, 1/7/07, p.G10)
1865 Nov 13, PT Barnum's New
American museum opened in Bridgeport, Conn.
(MC, 11/13/01)
1865 The Howe Machine Co. of
Bridgeport, Conn., was established and its sewing machine won a gold
medal at the 1867 Paris Exhibition. [see Elias Howe 1819-1867]
(HNQ, 2/27/02)
1866 Mar 2, Excelsior Needle
Company of Wolcottville, Connecticut, began making sewing machine
needles, the 1st US company to make sewing needles.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)(SC, 3/2/02)
1866 Oliver F. Winchester, a
Connecticut shirt maker, began making Winchester rifles in New Haven,
spearheading the development of rifles for multiple shots.
(WSJ, 6/15/06, p.B2)
1867 Feb 14, Hartford Steam Boiler
Inspection & Insurance Co. issued its 1st policy.
(MC, 2/14/02)
1867 Oct 15, W.W. Lyman of
Wallingford, Conn., patented a pewter coffeepot.
(SFC, 3/16/05, p.G4)
1869 The Meriden Silver Plate Co.
was founded.
(SFC,12/10/97, Z1 p.9)
1874 Oct 20, Charles Ives
(d.1954), composer, was born in Danbury, Ct. His work included
symphonies, songs, and “Three Places in New England.” He was pioneer of
dissonance as flavoring.
(WSJ, 8/15/96, p.A10)(HN, 10/20/00)(MC, 10/20/01)
1874 Samuel (aka Mark Twain) and
Olivia Clemens built a mansion in Nook Farm on the edge of Hartford.
(SFEC, 6/25/00, p.T4)
1874-1891 Samuel (aka Mark Twain) and Olivia Clemens
lived in Hartford.
(SFC, 8/11/97, p.D5)
1876 Mar 1, Guernsey Cattle Club
formed in Farmington, CT.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1878 Jan 28, The first daily
college newspaper, Yale News (now Yale Daily News), began publication
in New Haven, Conn.
(AP, 1/28/08)
1878 Jan 28, The 1st telephone
exchange was established at New Haven, Conn.
(AP, 1/28/04)
1878 Feb 21, The first telephone
directory was issued, by the District Telephone Company of New Haven
(New Harbor), Conn. It contained the names of its 50 subscribers.
(AP, 2/21/98)(HN, 2/21/01)(WSJ, 11/24/07, p.W7)
1878 Sep, Herbert Hayden, a
prominent Connecticut minister, used arsenic to murder Mary Stannard, a
young servant girl that he thought he had made pregnant. The reverend,
who was tried 1st for physical assault and later for murder was
acquitted. In 1880 he produced an exculpatory account of the case. In
1999 Virginia A. McConell authored “Arsenic Under the Elms: Murder in
Victorian New Haven.”
(WSJ, 6/24/05, p.W9)(http://tinyurl.com/amrk5)
1880 Jun 1, The first pay
telephone was installed in the Yale Bank Building in New Haven, Conn.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
c1880 Mark Twain began investing
in a mechanical typesetter invented by James Paige of Hartford.
(ON, 7/00, p.4)
1882 Mar 29, The Knights of
Columbus was granted a charter by the state of Connecticut.
(AP, 3/29/07)
1883 Echo Camp was built in the
Adirondacks for Gov. Phineas C. Lounsbury of Connecticut. It was later
turned into a private girl’s camp.
(SFCM, 3/17/02, p.25)
1885 Philip Handel started Handel
and Co., a ceramic and glass operation in Meridan, Conn. He moved to
New York and made lamps, vases and other glassware from 1893-1933.
(SFC, 7/22/98, Z1 p.2)(SFC, 1/10/07, p.G2)
1886 James McCutcheon, who made a
fortune in the linen trade, hired a Boston architect to build him a
mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut. In late 2007 the property was sold
to Rene Kern, managing director of the General Atlantic hedge fund, who
planned to demolish it, despite protests, and build a new home.
(WSJ, 4/12/08, p.A6)
1887 Mar 8, Everett Horton of
Connecticut patented a fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes.
(MC, 3/8/02)
1889 Aug 13, The first
coin-operated telephone was patented by William Gray of Hartford, Conn.
A foreman had refused to let Gray call his sick wife from the company
phone.
(SFEC, 10/22/00, Z1 p.2)(AP, 8/13/08)
1892 Barbour Silver was organized
in Hartford, Conn. In 1898 it became part of the Int’l. Silver Co. of
Meriden, Conn.
(SFC, 10/19/05, p.G2)
1894 The Forbes Silver Co. was
organized as a division of the Meriden Brittania Co. of Meriden, Conn.
It became part of Int’l. Silver in 1898.
(SFC, 8/5/98, Z1 p.3)
1894 The term hot dog was used to
describe the sausages sold to Yale dorms from “dog wagons.”
(WSJ, 1/02/00, p.A20)
1895 John Day Jackson purchased
the New Haven Register newspaper.
(SFC, 9/4/99, p.A25)
1897 The Stanley Rule & Level
Co. of in New Britain, Conn., began making 6-inch folding rulers. They
introduced a 4-inch one in 1907.
(SFC, 11/1/03, p.E4)
1898 Feb 1, The Travelers
Insurance Company of Hartford, CT (the company with the red umbrella
over their logo) issued the very first automobile insurance policy on
this day. Dr. Truman Martin of Buffalo, NY, paid $11.25 for the policy,
which gave him $5,000 in liability coverage.
(AP, 2/1/97)(440 Int'l, 2/1/1999)
1898 Adolph Gund, a German
immigrant, founded a toy company in Norwalk, Conn. In 1925 he sold it
to Jacob Swedlin, who kept the company name, Gund Mfg.
(SFC, 4/12/06, p.G4)
1898 In Connecticut the Meridan
Silver Plate Co. was one of many independent silver companies that
merged to form the Int'l. Silver Co.
(SFC,12/10/97, Z1 p.9)(SFC, 8/2/06, p.G7)
1899 Hiram Percy Maxim, engineer
for the Pope Manufacturing Co., raced the new Mark VIII against a
Stanely Steamer in Branford and won.
(ON, 7/00, p.6)
1902 Aug 22, President Theodore
Roosevelt became the first U.S. chief executive to ride in an
automobile, in Hartford, Conn.
(AP, 8/22/97)(SFC, 9/25/99, p.A20)
1906 Jul 4-5, Eugene O’Neill’s
1933 play “Ah, Wilderness” was set in a Connecticut town this date.
(WSJ, 3/19/98, p.A16)
1907 May 12, Katherine Hepburn,
actress (The Philadelphia Story, The African Queen), was born in
Hartford, CT.
(HN, 5/12/01)(AP, 5/12/07)
1908 Feb 3, The US Supreme Court,
in Loewe v. Lawlor, ruled the United Hatters Union had violated the
Sherman Antitrust Act by organizing a nationwide boycott of Danbury
Hatters of Connecticut.
(AP, 2/3/08)
1908 May 27, Harold Rome (d.1993),
American composer, lyricist, and writer for musical theater, was born
in Hartford, Connecticut.
(www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibit_home_page.asp?exhibitId=238)
1908 Jun 4, Rosalind Russell
(d.1976), actress (Mame, Take a Letter Darling), was born in Waterbury,
Connecticut.
(www.filmreference.com/Actors-and-Actresses-Ro-Sc/Russell-Rosalind.html)
1908 Nov 29, Adam Clayton Powell,
Jr., later New York Congressman, was born in New Haven, Conn.
(AP, 11/29/08)
1910 Apr 9, Abraham Ribicoff,
later senator and governor, was born in New Britain.
(SFC, 2/23/98, p.A5)
1910 Apr 21, Author Mark Twain
(74), born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, died in Redding, Conn. His work
included "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court," "The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn," "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," and "More Tramps
Abroad." His short story "The War Prayer" was published after his
death. In 1912 Albert Bigelow Paine authored "Mark Twain: A Biography."
In 1959 Charles Neider authored "The Autobiography of Mark Twain." In
1966 Justin Kaplan authored "Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography."
In 1997 Andrew Hoffman authored "Inventing Mark Twain, The Lives of
Samuel Langhorn Clemens. In 2005 Ron Powers authored “Mark Twain: A
Life.” In 2007 Peter Krass authored “Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy
Rich Friends: The Business Adventures of Mark Twain.”
(http://courant.ctnow.com/probjects/twain/timeline.htm)(SFC, 7/13/01,
p.D5)(SSFC, 9/30/01, p.D6)(SSFC, 11/27/05, p.M2)(WSJ, 3/13/07, p.D5)
1911 Dec 18, Jules Dassin,
director (Circle of Two, Never on Sunday), was born in Middletown, Ct.
(MC, 12/18/01)
1911 The American explorer Hiram
Bingham discovered several Inca ruins and found the mountaintop citadel
of Machu Pichu. He was in search of the lost city of Vilcabamba, the
Inca’s legendary last refuge from the invading Spaniards. Bingham was
an archeologist from Yale and later served as a Connecticut governor
and US senator.
(NG, Oct. 1988, p. 543)(SFC, 5/5/96, p.T-5)(SFC,
5/13/98, p.C4)
1912 Feb 14, The 1st US submarines
with diesel engines were commissioned at Groton, Ct.
(MC, 2/14/02)
1912 Raynal Bolling (1887-1918),
who made his money as a lawyer for US Steel, hired an architect to
build an English-style mansion in Greewnwich, Connecticut. His
Greyledge mansion was demolished in 2007 by Spencer Lampert, hedge fund
director for Tudor Investment Corp.
(WSJ, 4/12/08, p.A6)
1915 May 29, Igor Buketoff,
conductor (Iceland Symphony 1964-65), was born in Hartford, CT.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1916 A group of Yale
undergraduates organized an aviation unit, which they hoped would
assist the US Navy in protecting the coastline in the expected event of
German aggression. In 2006 Marc Wortman authored “The Millionaire’s
Unit.”
(WSJ, 5/16/06, p.D6)
1917 Jan 24, Ernest Borgnine,
actor (Ice Station Zebra, McHale, Marty), was born in Hamden, Ct.
(Internet)
1918 Mar 26, Col. Raynal Bolling
(b.1877), architect of American air power in WWI and resident of
Greenwich, Connecticut, was shot dead by a German patrol in France.
(WSJ, 4/12/08,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raynal_Bolling)
1918 The Dunellen Hall manor house
in Greenwich, Conn., was built. The Jacobean style brick mansion was
sold to real estate magnate Harry Helmsley for $11 million in the 1980s.
(WSJ, 4/21/09, p.A6)
1920 Feb 13, Eileen Farrell, opera
soprano (Interrupted Melody), was born in Willimantic, Conn.
(MC, 2/13/02)
1920 May 8, Sloan Wilson, American
author, was born in Norwalk, Conn. He wrote "The man in the Gray
Flannel Suit" and "A Summer Place."
(HN, 5/8/99)(MC, 5/8/02)
1920 Aug 3, Maria Karnilova,
actress (Olga-Ivan the Terrible), was born in Hartford, Ct.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1920 Nov 16, Metered mail was born
in Stamford, Connecticut, with the first Pitney Bowes postage meter.
(HN, 11/16/98)
1921 Aug 3, Hayden Carruth,
novelist (Crow & Heart), was born in Waterbury, Ct.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1925 John Day Jackson purchased
the morning Journal-Courier newspaper as a complement to the afternoon
Register.
(SFC, 9/4/99, p.A25)
1928 Nov 23, Jerry Bock, Broadway
composer (Fiddler on the Roof), was born in New Haven, Ct.
(MC, 11/23/01)
1929 The Ansonia Clock Co. of
Ansonia, Conn., formed in 1850, was forced to close by the Depression.
(SFC, 7/11/07, p.G4)
1930s The Napier Co. of Meriden,
Conn., made jewelry and metal pieces. Their products included a pig
bank, a clown bank, cocktail shakers and ice buckets.
(SFC, 1/7/98, Z1 p.6)
1931 Feb 7, Amelia Earhart (33),
aviatrix, married George Palmer Putnam (45), divorced heir to a
publishing empire in Noank, Conn.
(SFEM, 1/25/98, p.31)(HN, 2/7/99)
1931 Salvador Dali painted "La
Solitude." This became the first Dali painting to enter an American
public collection, the Wadsworth Athenium in Hartford, Conn. under
director A. Everett "Chick" Austin in 1932. The Wadsworth Athenium
museum was the first American museum to show Surrealist art in the 1931
show "Newer Super-Realism."
(WSJ, 2/2/99, p.A20)(WSJ, 1/26/00, p.A20)(WSJ,
1/10/00, p.A24)
1932 May 25, John Gregory Dunne
(d.2003), author, screenwriter and husband of Joan Didion, was born in
Hartford, Conn.
(HN, 5/25/01)(SFC, 1/1/04, p.A23)
1933 Hope Lange (d.2003), film
actress, was born in Connecticut.
(SFC, 12/22/03, p.A20)
1933 The Ingersoll-Waterbury Co.
of Waterbury, Conn., made the first Mickey Mouse wristwatches.
(SFC, 9/2/98, Z1 p.6)
1935 Aug 22, E. Annie Proulx,
writer, was born in Connecticut. Her novels included "Postcards" and
"The Shipping News."
(HN, 8/22/00)
1937 Mar 1, The 1st US permanent
automobile license plates was issued in Connecticut.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1938 Jul 9, Brian Dennehy, actor
(Check is in the Mail, F/X, Cocoon, Death of a Salesman), was born in
Ct.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1938 Sep 21, A Category 3
hurricane struck parts of New York and New England, causing widespread
damage and claiming more than 600 lives. Winds hit 183 MPH in New
England and 700 were killed. The storm hit Long Island and Connecticut
and caused $308 million in damage.
(AP, 9/21/97)(WSJ, 5/31/06, p.B1)
1938 Oct 22, Christopher Lloyd,
actor (Taxi, Back to the Future), was born in Stamford, Ct.
(MC, 10/22/01)
1938 Abraham Ribicoff was elected
to the Connecticut General Assembly as a representative from Hartford.
(SFC, 2/23/98, p.A5)
1939 Apr 19, Connecticut finally
approved Bill of Rights.
(HN, 4/19/97)
1940 Jul 18, The 1st successful
helicopter flight was made at Stratford, Ct.
(MC, 7/18/02)
1941 Apr 15, 1st helicopter flight
of 1 hour duration took place at Stratford, Ct.
(MC, 4/15/02)
1941 Aug 12, Deborah Walley,
actress (Mothers-in-Law), was born in Bridgeport, Ct.
(SC, 8/12/02)
1942 Jun 6, The 1st nylon
parachute jump was made in Hartford, Ct., by Adeline Gray.
(MC, 6/6/02)
1942 Jun 14, The first bazooka
rocket gun, produced in Bridgeport, Ct., demolished a tank from its
shoulder-held position.
(MC, 6/14/02)
1944 Jul 6, In Hartford, Conn.,
168 people died when fire broke out in the main tent of the Ringling
Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. In 2000 Stewart O’Nan authored
"The Circus Fire: A True Story."
(AP, 7/6/04)(SFEC, 8/20/00, BR p.3)
1944 Sep 14, A Category 3
hurricane, the Great Atlantic Hurricane, struck eastern New England.
Winds hit 109 MPH in Connecticut and 46 people were killed on land and
caused $100 million in damage. The storm sank 5 ships killing 344
people.
(AP, 9/21/97)(WSJ, 5/31/06,
p.B1)(www.geocities.com/hurricanene/Majorne.htm)
1946 Feb 16, The 1st commercially
designed helicopter was tested at Bridgeport, Ct.
(MC, 2/16/02)
1947 Mar 19, Glenn Close, actress
(The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction), was born in Greenwich, Ct.
(MC, 3/19/02)
1948 Abraham Ribicoff of
Connecticut was elected to the US House of Representatives.
(SFC, 2/23/98, p.A5)
1948 Chester Bowles (1901-1986)
was elected governor of Connecticut and served one term, during which
time he signed into law an end to segregation in the state national
guard.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Bowles)
1949 Mar 2, 1st automatic street
light was in New Milford, CT.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1951 William F. Buckley Jr.
(b.1925), Yale graduate, authored “God and Man at Yale.” It exposed the
extraordinarily irresponsible educational attitude that prevailed at
his alma mater.
(www.amazon.com/God-Man-Yale-William-Buckley/dp/089526692X)
1952 Jun 14, The USS Nautilus, the
first atomic submarine, was dedicated in Groton, Connecticut.
(HN, 6/14/98)
1952 The organization Promoting
Enduring Peace was founded in Woodmont, Conn. It sponsored friendship
tours to the Soviet Union, China, Nicaragua, Cuba and Costa Rica.
(SFC, 6/14/97, p.C2)
1952 Abraham Ribicoff lost his bid
for the US Senate to Prescott S. Bush, the father of later Pres. George
Bush.
(SFC, 2/23/98, p.A5)
1954 Jan 21, The first atomic
submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched at Groton, Conn. However, the
Nautilus did not make its first nuclear-powered run until nearly a year
later.
(AP, 1/21/08)
1954 Sep 30, The first
atomic-powered vessel, the submarine Nautilus, was commissioned by the
Navy in Groton, Connecticut. It was launched Jan 21.
(AP, 9/30/97)(AP, 1/21/98)(HN, 9/30/98)
1954 Abraham Ribicoff was elected
Governor of Connecticut and served two terms (1955-61).
(SFC, 2/23/98,
p.A5)(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKribicoff.htm)
1955 Aug 17, Hurricane Diane
followed hurricane Connie and flooded the Connecticut River killing 190
and doing $1.8 billion in damage.
(SC, 8/17/02)
1956 Jan 10, The US Navy
established its first nuclear power school at Submarine Base, New
London, Connecticut.
(AH, 2/06, p.14)
1957 Jan 22, Suspected "Mad
Bomber" George P. Metesky, accused of planting more than 30 explosive
devices in the New York City area, was arrested in Waterbury, Conn. He
was later found mentally ill and committed to a mental hospital; he was
released in 1973, and died in 1994 at age 90.
(AP, 1/22/98)(AP, 1/22/04)
1957 Jonel Perlea (1900-1970),
Romania-born composer, became the principal conductor of the
Connecticut Symphony and continued there for ten years.
(http://soundfountain.org/rem/remperlea.html)
1958 Dr. Aaron Lerner (1920-2007)
led a Yale team in the discovery of melatonin, a hormone from the
pineal gland in the brain. It was later found to regulate human
sleep-wake cycles.
(SFC, 2/19/07, p.B4)
1959 Jun 9, The first ballistic
missile carrying submarine, the USS George Washington, was launched at
Groton, Ct.
(HN 6/9/98)(MC, 6/9/02)
1960 May 17, Connecticut executed
Joseph "Mad Dog" Taborsky in the electric chair for a series of murders
and robberies.
(http://capitaldefenseweekly.com/chair.htm)
1960 Stanley Milgram began
experiments in Yale on the psychology of torture. In 2004 Thomas Blass
authored “The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley
Milgram.” His experiments created a paradigm for considering how cruel
people can be when they are “only obeying orders.”
(SSFC, 7/4/04, p.M6)
1960s In Bridgeport, Conn., the
Rev. Laurence Brett molested young Frank Martinelli. In 1997 the
Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocese was found guilty for breach of duty
and failure to investigate for other victims and awarded Martinelli
(50) $750,000. The good Rev. could not be found.
(SFC, 8/26/97, p.E4)
1961 Governor Abraham Ribicoff
resigned to serve as a member of Pres. Kennedy’s Cabinet. He served as
HEW secretary for one year.
(SFC, 2/23/98, p.A5)
1962 Abraham Ribicoff was elected
to the US Senate. He was re-elected in 1968 and 1974.
(SFC, 2/23/98, p.A5)
1965 The Supreme Court ruled in
Griswold vs. Connecticut to invalidate a state law prohibiting the use
of contraceptives. The court ruled that the government cannot regulate
a married couple's use of birth control.
(SFC, 1/22/98, p.A22)(NW, 6/30/03, p.44)
1967 Jan 15, Some 462 Yale faculty
members called for an end to the bombing in North Vietnam.
(HN, 1/15/99)
1967 Jun 23, The US Senate voted
to censure Democrat Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut for using campaign
money for personal uses.
(AP, 6/23/07)
1968 Jan 5, The US Justice Dept.
indicted Dr. Benjamin Spock, Rev. William Coffin of Yale (1924-2006)
and 3 others for conspiring to violate draft law.
(SFC, 4/13/06, p.B7)
1968 May 14, Adm. Husband Edward
Kimmel (b.1882), commandant US Ocean fleet WW II, died in Connecticut.
Some historians, such as submariner Captain Edward L. "Ned" Beach,
later believed Admiral Kimmel and Army Lieutenant General Walter Short
became scapegoats for the failures of their superiors prior to the
attack on Pearl Harbor and that their careers were effectively and
unfairly ruined.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husband_Kimmel)
1968 Jun 1, Author-lecturer Helen
Keller (87), who earned a college degree despite being blind and deaf
most of her life, died in Westport, Conn.
(AP, 6/1/97)(MC, 6/1/02)
1968 Aug 28, Connecticut Senator
Abraham Ribicoff (1910-1998) nominated George McGovern for the US
Presidency and strongly criticized Chicago’s Mayor Daly for his
strong-arm tactics in controlling protestors at the Democratic National
Convention.
(SFC, 2/23/98,
p.A5)(www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/abrahamribicoff1968dnc.htm)
1968 Nov 14, In Connecticut Yale
University announced its plan to go co-ed.
(HN, 11/14/98)
1969 May 20, In Connecticut Warren
Kimbro (d.2009 at 74), a member of the Black Panthers, fatally shot
Alex Rackley (19), another member of the Black Panthers, who was
believed to be an FBI informant. The shooting was ordered by George
Sams, a local Black Panther leader. Prosecutors later alleged that
Bobby Seale had ordered the murder.
(AP, 2/11/09)
1969 Sep 1, There was a race riot
in Hartford, Connecticut.
(http://tinyurl.com/6qb7y4)
1970 Jul 29, Six days of race
rioting began in Hartford, Ct.
(www.fsmitha.com/time1970.htm)
1971 Libby Holman, singer,
committed suicide in the garage of her 110-acre, 30-room, Treetops
mansion. Jon Bradshaw later authored her biography.
(WSJ, 12/6/00, p.B14)
1972 Oct 26, Igor Sikorsky
(b.1889), Ukraine-born helicopter pioneer, died in Connecticut.
(HNPD, 10/27/98)(ON, 3/06,
p.5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sikorsky)
1973 Reginald Harold Jones
(d.2003) took over as the 7th head of General Electric, based in
Fairfield, Conn., succeeding Fred Borch (1967-1972). Jones was followed
by John Welch Jr. (1981-2001).
(SFC, 1/2/04, p.A18)
1974 Nov 5, Ella T. Grasso was
elected governor of Connecticut, the first woman to win a gubernatorial
office without succeeding her husband.
(AP, 11/5/98)
1974 Mort Walker, creator of the
Beetle Bailey cartoon character, opened the National Cartoon Museum in
Greenwich, Conn. The museum moved a few times before closing in 2002.
In 2008 Ohio State Univ. received the collection and planned to make it
available for all to see.
(WSJ, 7/16/08, p.A14)
1975 Oct 30, Martha Moxley,
15-years-old, was bludgeoned to death with a gulf club in Greenwich,
Conn., on Halloween eve. The last person to see her was 17-year-old
Thomas Skakel, a nephew of Ethel Kennedy. No one has ever been charged.
Michael (15) and Thomas (17) Skakel were suspects. Michael Skakel was
charged with the killing in 2000. The 1993 novel "A Season in
Purgatory" by Dominick Dunne, and "Murder in Greenwich" by Mark Fuhrman
in 1998 were based on this murder. In 2002 a jury found Skakel guilty
of murder. He was sentenced 20 years to life in prison.
(WSJ, 5/6/96, p.A-11)(SFC, 10/17/98, p.A6)(SFC,
6/8/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/29/02, p.A1)
1975 Lyme disease was first
recognized in Lyme, Conn.
(SFEC, 8/15/99, Z1 p.8)
1976 Jan 30, The play "Streamers”
by David Rabe (b.1940) premiered at the Long Wharf Theater in New
Haven, Connecticut.
(SFEC, 5/30/99, DB
p.37)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamers)
1979 The Pritzker Prize, an Int’l.
for award for Architecture, was begun by Jay Pritzker, founder of the
Hyatt Hotel chain. The first winner was Philip Johnson for his Glass
House in New Canaan, Conn.
(SFC, 9/5/97, p.A24)(SFEC, 1/24/99, p.D8)(WSJ,
6/15/99, p.A16)
1980 May 21, Ensign Jean Marie
Butler became the first woman to graduate from a U.S. service academy
as she accepted her degree and commission from the Coast Guard Academy
in New London, Conn.
(AP, 5/21/00)
1980s Dean Kamen, inventor, bought
North Dumpling Island, 3 acres off the Connecticut coast. His
inventions included the 1st portable insulin pump.
(SSFC, 4/8/01, p.B3)
1982 Jun 4, A 4-day storm began in
New England. It deluged Connecticut with 14 inches of rain, breaking 23
dams and destroying two. Damages were estimated at close to $276
million.
(SFC, 6/4/09, p.D10)
1983 Jun 28, A 100-foot span of
the Mianus River Bridge, part of Interstate 95 in Connecticut,
collapsed without warning in the middle of the night, leaving 3 dead
and three injured.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mianus_River_Bridge)
1983 Sep 12, Filiberto Ojeda Rios
(d.2005), a Puerto Rican nationalist leader, was involved in the
robbery of a Connecticut armored truck. It was considered an act of
domestic terrorism because the money was used to fund activities by the
Puerto Rican nationalist Macheteros, or Cane Cutters. Only about
$80,000 of the $7 million was recovered. In 2005 Rios was shot and
killed by FBI agents in Puerto Rico
(www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=24432). In 2008 Avelino Gonzalez
Claudio (65), a Puerto Rican militant suspected in the Connecticut
robbery, was arrested in Puerto Rico, where he lived quietly under an
assumed name.
(http://tinyurl.com/2rju8s)(AP, 9/25/05)(AP, 2/8/08)
1983 The Pequot Indians won
federal recognition.
(WSJ, 9/3/98, p.A16)
1984 Dec 19, The NY Times reported
that 33 unknown Bach keyboard works had been found in the Yale
library and authenticated by Harvard professor Christoph Wolff.
(http://tinyurl.com/2jqj55)
1984 Michael Ross, former
life-insurance salesman, was arrested in Connecticut. He had strangled
at least 6 girls and young women. He later pleaded guilty to 2 killings
in 1985 and was convicted of 4 killings in 1987. He was sentenced to
death in 1997 and signed a letter in 1998 to be executed. Ross was
executed May 13, 2005.
(SFC, 3/26/98, p.A6)(Econ, 1/22/05, p.31)(SSFC,
1/30/05, p.A10)(SFC, 5/14/05, p.A4)
1984 Pan American Satellite
(PanAmSat) was founded in Greenwich, Connecticut, as part of Alpha
Lyracom under Rene Anselmo (1926-1995). The company orbited a series of
communications satellites providing television broadcast to the US and
Latin American markets. In 1996 it merged with Hughes Galaxy.
(www.astronautix.com/project/panamsat.htm)
1985 Actor Paul Newman founded the
Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Connecticut for children afflicted with
cancer and other serious diseases.
(Hem., 10/97, p.24)
1985 Betsey Cushing Roosevelt
Whitney (d.1998 at 89) donated $8 million to Yale Medical School for
the Harvey Cushing-John Hay Whitney Medical Library.
(SFC, 3/26/98, p.B4)
1986 Feb 10, In Darien, Conn.,
Alex Kelly (18) raped 16-year-old Adrienne Bak Ortolano. Four days
later he raped another girl. While preparing for trial after he was
arrested and out on bail, Kelly fled the country and eluded charges for
8 years. Kelly stayed in Europe for nearly 10 years, presumably
financed by his parents. In 1995, he was captured in Switzerland and
extradited back to the United States to face trial. He faced two
criminal trials in 1997. The first trial resulted in a mistrial. In the
second trial he was convicted of the first rape and sentenced to 18
years in jail. He pleaded no contest to the second rape charge. His
next parole hearing is scheduled in 2008, conditional on good behavior.
(SFC,12/22/97,
p.A3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Andrew_Kelly)
1986 May 25, Chester Bowles
(b.1901), US senator, ambassador, died in Connecticut. Bowles was
elected to the governorship of Connecticut in 1948 and served one term,
during which time he signed into law an end to segregation in the state
national guard.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Bowles)
1986 Sep 3, In Connecticut Barbara
Pelkey (30) of Wallingford, a New Haven suburb, was raped and murdered.
Kenneth Ireland (20) was convicted in 1989 and sentenced to 50 years in
prison. In 2009 Ireland was released from prison and granted a new
trial after DNA testing showed he could not have committed the crime.
(http://issuu.com/recordjournal/docs/ireland_pelkey)(http://tinyurl.com/ldh9kt)
1986 In Connecticut the John Day
Jackson Trust sold the New Haven Register and Journal-Courier
newspapers to Ingersoll Publications for an estimated $185 million. The
Journal Register Co. later bought the papers.
(SFC, 9/4/99, p.A25)
1986 Paul Newman’s 1st Hole in the
Wall camp for critically ill children opened in Connecticut. In 1993
the Double H Camp (health and happiness) opened in the woods of the
southern Adirondacks for campers whose diagnoses ranged from cancer to
muscular dystrophy. Double H opened after the late amusement park
developer Charles Wood proposed to Paul Newman that they convert an old
dude ranch into a second Hole in the Wall camp. New camps followed and
a 9th was set to open in Israel in 2007.
(http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14189319/)
1986 The Mashantucket Pequot
Tribal Nation opened its first bingo hall in Connecticut.
(Econ, 5/17/08, p.40)
1987 Apr 23, In Connecticut 28
construction workers were killed when an apartment complex being built
in Bridgeport collapsed.
(AP, 4/23/97)
1987 Benjamin Sisti built a 56,000
sq. foot mansion in Farmington, a suburb of Hartford. He was later
jailed for real estate fraud. In 1996 Mike Tyson, prof. boxer bought
the house for around 3 mil. In 1997 Tyson put the remodeled house up
for sale at 22 mil.
(WSJ, 5/23/97, p.B1)
1988 James Calvin Tillman (26) was
arrested in Connecticut for alleged abduction and rape. He was
convicted in 1989 and sentenced to 45 years in prison. In 2006 he was
released from prison after tests showed that forensic evidence from the
crime scene did not match his DNA.
(www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198487,00.html)
1989 Feb 6, Pulitzer Prize-winning
historian Barbara W. Tuchman died in Greenwich, Conn., at age 77.
(AP, 2/6/99)
1989 Aug 26, A team from Trumbull,
Conn., became the first American team since 1983 to win the Little
League World Series in Williamsport, Pa.
(AP, 8/26/99)
1989 The Mashantucket Pequot
Indians began the Pequot Pharmaceutical Network, a small health service
for their members and employees. In 10 years it grew to a $15 million
business based on drug prices acquired at government rates.
(SFC, 6/19/99, p.A3)
1991 Jun 19, Two of Mia Farrow's
daughters were arrested in Danbury, Conn., for shoplifting lingerie.
(http://tinyurl.com/phgu8)
1992 Mar 2, Actress Sandy Dennis
died in Westport, Conn., at age 54.
(AP, 3/2/02)
1992 Mar 24, Democrat Jerry Brown
upset front-runner Bill Clinton in the Connecticut presidential primary.
(AP, 3/23/97)
1992 The Foxwoods Casino, the
biggest gaming complex in the Western Hemisphere, opened on the Pequot
Reservation at Mashantucket, Conn. The number of Pequots numbered about
550. In 2001 Kim Isaac Eisler authored "Revenge of the Pequots."
(WSJ, 9/3/98, p.A16)(WSJ, 2/8/00, p.A20)
1996 Mar, Northeast Utilities
closed its Millstone nuclear power plant under pressure from the US
Nuclear Regulatory Commission due to safety problems.
(WSJ, 3/12/98, p.A1)
1996 Dec 9-1996 Dec 10, David
Coffin Jr., heir to a Connecticut family that founded the Dexter Corp.,
was killed. In 2005 Scott Winfield Davis (40), was arrested in Palo
Alto, Ca., for the Atlanta shooting death of David Coffin Jr. Initial
charges against Davis were dropped in 1998 due to insufficient evidence.
(SFC, 11/19/05, p.B3)
1997 Jul 4, Ritt Goldstein, a
businessman from Danbury, Conn., arrived in Sweden and sought political
asylum. He claimed to be persecuted in the US for his crusade for
civilian oversight of the police.
(SFC, 10/14/98, p.A10)
1997 Aug 8, Frances Burge (22) was
found hanged with a rope from the back deck of one of two mansions
owned by Martin R. Frankel. Her death was ruled a suicide. [see Frankel
May 5, 1999]
(SFC, 7/13/99, p.A3)
1997 Sep 30, In Waterbury, Conn.,
Todd Joseph Rizzo (18), recently discharged from the Marines,
bludgeoned to death Stanley Edwards IV (13) to see what it felt like to
kill. In 1999, a jury sentenced him to die. In 2003, the state Supreme
Court overturned that sentence because Judge William Holden had not
properly instructed the jury.
(SFC, 10/3/97,
p.A6)(www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1407662/posts)
1998 Feb 22, Former senator and
governor Abraham Ribicoff died at age 87.
(SFC, 2/23/98, p.A5)
1998 Mar 6, Matthew Beck (35), a
Connecticut state lottery accountant, shot to death three supervisors
and the lottery chief before killing himself.
(SFC, 3/7/98, p.A3)(AP, 3/6/99)
1998 Mar 27, Joe Sobek, the
inventor of racquetball almost 50 years ago, died in Greenwich at age
79.
(SFC, 4/1/98, p.C2)
1998 Aug 11, The 308,000 sq.-foot
Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center opened in Mashantucket,
Conn.
(WSJ, 8/11/98, p.A16)
1998 Dec 29, Franklyn Reid (27)
was shot in the back and killed by police officer Scott Smith (27).
Officer Smith of New Milford was later charged with murder.
(SFC, 3/17/99, p.A3)
1998 The homes of 7 families at
the abandoned submarine base of Fort Trumbull, Connecticut, were
compulsorily purchased by the New London Development Corporation
(NLDC), a private non-profit body. In 2005 in Kelo vs. New London a
divided US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that local governments may seize
people's homes and businesses against their will for private
development.
(Econ, 2/19/05, p.31)(AP, 6/23/05)(WSJ, 6/24/05,
p.A1)
1999 Jan 8, In Bridgeport Leroy
Brown Jr. (8) and his mother Karen Clarke (30) were found murdered.
They had been killed the previous day. The boy had witnessed a drive-by
shooting and identified Russell Peeler (27) as the gunman. Adrian
Peeler (22) was arrested in North Carolina on Jan 21. He had escaped
from a halfway house in April and was sought for questioning. In 1999
Russell and Adrian Peeler were charged with murder, conspiracy and
other charges. Peeler was convicted in 2000.
(SFC, 1/12/99, p.A2)(SFC, 1/22/99, p.A3)(SFC,
4/15/99, p.A3)
1999 May 4, Martin Frankel flew to
Rome on a chartered jet from White Plains N.Y. with two women, Mona Kim
and Jackie Ju. It was later learned that he was responsible for over
200 million in missing insurance funds. [see May 5]
(WSJ, 7/16/99, p.A1)
1999 May 5, A fire at the home of
Martin R. Frankel in Greenwich, Conn., triggered an investigation that
unveiled his disappearance along with some $218 million. The St.
Francis of Assisi Foundation was set up by Frankel and used as a front
to help gain control of insurance money. The amount missing was raised
to $335 million. Frankel vanished with as much as $3 billion in
client's money. Early the following day a fleet of security personnel
associated with Mr. Frankel accepted a delivery of $10 million in
diamonds at Teterboro airport in NJ.
(WSJ, 6/21/99, p.C1)(WSJ, 6/22/99, p.C1)(SFC,
6/23/99, p.A3)(WSJ, 7/8/99, p.C25)
1999 Jun, Jackie McLean,
saxophonist, opened the $7 million community center for the arts in
Hartford, Conn.
(SFEM, 10/3/99, p.10)
1999 Jul 26, It was reported that
the state had agreed in June to pay out as much as $17 million to
people whose phones were improperly tapped by state police between
1979-1989,
(USAT, 7/26/99, p.4A)
1999 Sep 4, Martin R. Frankel, a
Connecticut money manager, accused of cheating insurance companies in
five states out of more than $200 million, was arrested in at the Hotel
Prem in Hamburg, Germany. In 2002 Frankel pleaded guilty to
multiple charges in a New Haven federal court.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, p.A6)(AP, 9/4/00)(WSJ, 5/16/02, p.C9)
1999 Dec 12, Paul Cadmus, artist,
died at age 94. He applied his virtuosic figurative style to subjects
ranging from social satire to male nudes.
(SFC, 12/15/99, p.B2)
2000 May 1, In East Haddam Michael
Dombrowski (13) and Jeffrey Barton (15) were killed after they
intentionally crashed an old Ford Bronco into a tree on Route 151 where
Michael’s older brother Daniel and a friend were killed 6 months
earlier.
(SFC, 5/3/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 7, Vice Pres. Al Gore
chose Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, as his
running mate.
(SFC, 8/8/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 26, Jason Robards (78),
stage and film actor and winner of 2 Oscars and 1 Tony Award, died in
Bridgeport, Conn.
(SFC, 12/27/00, p.A1)(AP, 12/26/01)
2000 Yale Prof. Robert Shiller
authored “Irrational Exuberance.”
(www.irrationalexuberance.com/)
2000 David Swenson, Yale’s chief
investment officer, authored “Pioneering Portfolio Management: An
Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment.”
(Econ, 12/13/08, p.88)
2000 Xiangzhong “Jerry” Yang
(d.2009 at 49), persudaded Connecticut to establish a $20 million
Center for Regenerative Biology at Storrs. In 1999 Yang helped clone a
calf named Amy, the first farm animal cloned in the US.
(SFC, 2/12/09, p.B4)
2001 Feb 22, Leo Connellan, state
poet laureate, died at age 72. His books included “Crossing America,”
“Provincetown and Other Poems,” and “The Clear Blue Lobster-Water
Country.”
(SFC, 2/26/01, p.A24)
2001 May 25, It was reported that
2 spent nuclear fuel rods had disappeared from a power plant.
(WSJ, 5/25/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 31, In Connecticut Joseph
Ganim (42), the mayor of Bridgeport, was charged in a federal
racketeering indictment with soliciting over $425,000 in bribes.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.C2)
2001 Nov 3, In Norwich 4 children
under 13 died in a house fire, while their mother was at work.
(SSFC, 11/4/01, p.A17)
2001 Nov 21, Ottilie W. Lundgren
(94) of Oxford, Conn., died of inhalational anthrax in a case that
baffled investigators.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A10)(AP, 11/21/02)
2001 Dec 31, Actress Eileen
Heckart died in Norwalk, Conn., at age 82.
(AP, 12/31/02)
2002 Feb 8, In Griswold Paul Brown
shot and killed his son Brian Brown (5) with a shotgun in the back of
the head.
(SFC, 2/28/02, p.E10)
2002 Mar 31, Connecticut beat
Oklahoma 82-70 to conclude its second unbeaten season with a third
women's national championship.
(AP, 3/31/03)
2002 May 15, Financier Martin
Frankel pleaded guilty in New Haven, Conn., to pulling off one of the
most brazen swindles Wall Street had ever seen. In 2004 Frankel (50)
was sentenced to over 16 years in prison.
(AP, 5/15/03)(SFC, 12/11/04, p.A3)
2002 Jun 7, Kennedy cousin Michael
Skakel was convicted in Norwalk, Conn., of beating Greenwich neighbor
Martha Moxley to death when they were 15 in 1975.
(AP, 6/7/03)
2002 Jun 12, Bill Blass (b.1922),
fashion designer, died of throat cancer in New Preston, Conn.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Blass).
(SFC, 6/13/02, p.A23)
2002 Aug 13, An explosion at a
condominium complex in West Haven killed 2 people. Natural gas was
suspected.
(SFC, 8/13/02, p.A5)
2002 Aug 29, A judge in Norwalk,
Conn., sentenced Michael Skakel, a Kennedy cousin, to 20 years to life
in prison for the 1975 murder with a golf club of Connecticut neighbor
Martha Moxley.
(WSJ, 8/30/02, p.A1)(AP, 8/29/03)
2003 Jan 24, The Bush
administration’s smallpox vaccine program was launched in Connecticut
with 4 doctors getting shots.
(SFC, 1/25/03, p.A4)(WSJ, 1/27/03, p.A1)
2003 Feb 26, In Hartford,
Conn., a nursing home fire at the Greenwood Health Center killed 16
residents. A patient charged with setting the blaze was later ruled
incompetent to stand trial.
(SFC, 2/27/03, A5)(AP, 2/26/08)
2003 Mar 25, Former Waterbury,
Conn., Mayor Philip Giordano was convicted by a federal jury of
violating the civil rights of two preteen girls by sexually abusing
them. Giordano was later sentenced to 37 years in federal prison.
(AP, 3/25/04)
2003 Apr 8, Connecticut won its
second straight NCAA women's basketball championship, defeating
Tennessee 73-68.
(AP, 4/8/04)
2003 Jun 13, Philip Giordano,
former 3-term mayor of Waterbury, Conn., was sentenced to 37 years in
federal prison for having oral sex with 2 young girls while in office.
(SFC, 6/14/03, p.A3)
2003 Jun 15, Hume Cronyn (91),
stage and film star, died in Fairfield, Conn.
(SFC, 6/17/03, p.A21)
2003 Jun 29, Katharine Hepburn
(96), film actress, died at Old Saybrook, Conn. Her Oscars were for
"Morning Glory" (1933); "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967); "The
Lion in Winter" (1968); and "On Golden Pond" (1981). Her books included
"Me: Stories from My Life" (1991).
(AP, 6/30/03)(SFC, 6/30/03, p.A11)
2003 Oct 16, The Bridgeport, Conn.
Diocese announced a $21 million settlement with 40 people who said they
had been molested by priests when they were children.
(SFC, 10/17/03, p.A7)
2003 Nov 9, Art Carney (85) died
in Chester, Conn. He played Jackie Gleason's sewer worker pal Ed Norton
in the TV classic "The Honeymooners" and went on to win the 1974 Oscar
for best actor in "Harry and Tonto."
(AP, 11/11/03)
2004 Jan 19, Connecticut Gov.
Rowland said he's looking forward to a legislative investigation on
charges that he accepted free gifts and work on a vacation cottage.
(USAT, 1/20/04, p.12A)(Econ, 1/17/04, p.25)
2004 Jan 27, Jack Paar (85), TV
host, died in Greenwich, Conn. The "Jack Paar Tonight Show" ran from
1957-1965 and "The Jack Paar Program" ran from 1962-1965. His 1960
memoir was titled "I Kid You Not," which was also his signature line.
(SFC, 1/28/04, p.A2)
2004 Feb 17, In Connecticut 2
cranes collapsed at a bridge construction site and one worker was
killed.
(WSJ, 2/18/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 25, In Connecticut an oil
truck crashed on I-95 causing a fires and structural damage to a bridge.
(WSJ, 3/26/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 5, Univ. of Connecticut
won the basketball NCAA finals over Georgia Tech 82-73.
(WSJ, 4/6/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 6, The University of
Connecticut's women's basketball team beat Tennessee 70-61 to win a
third consecutive NCAA title, a day after UConn also won the men's
championship.
(AP, 4/6/05)
2004 Jun 21, Connecticut Gov. John
G. Rowland announced his resignation, amid a federal corruption
investigation and a growing move to impeach him.
(AP, 6/21/04)
2004 Dec 23, Former Connecticut
Gov. John G. Rowland, driven from office by a corruption scandal,
pleaded guilty to a single federal charge that carries a sentence of up
to five years in prison. He was later sentenced to a year and a day in
federal prison.
(AP, 12/23/05)
2005 Mar 18, Former Connecticut
3-term Gov. John G. Rowland was sentenced to a year in prison after
pleading guilty to a single federal corruption charge.
(SFC, 3/19/05, p.A4)
2005 Apr 20, Gov. Jodi Rell signed
legislation making Connecticut the 2nd state after Vermont to offer
civil unions to gay couples.
(SFC, 4/21/05, p.A3)
2005 May 13, Michael Ross (45), a
serial killer who fought to hasten his own execution and was forced to
prove he wasn't out of his mind, was put to death in Connecticut in New
England's first execution in 45 years.
(AP, 5/13/05)
2005 Jun 23, In Kelo vs. London a
divided US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that local governments may seize
people's homes and businesses against their will for private
development. In 2006 a group petitioned for signatures in Weare, New
Hampshire, to seize the home of Justice David Souter in order to build
an inn called the Lost Liberty Hotel. In 2009 Jeff Benedict authored
“Little Pink House,” the story of Susette Kelo’s battle in New London,
Connecticut, against eminent domain.
(AP, 6/23/05)(WSJ, 6/24/05, p.A1)(Econ, 8/20/05,
p.21)(SSFC, 1/22/06, p.A6)(WSJ, 1/26/08, p.A13)
2005 Aug 22, Connecticut sued the
federal government seeking relief from a requirement that it scrap its
own education testing program in favor of one the state said will not
help children but will cost millions.
(SFC, 8/23/05, p.A4)
2005 Aug 24, A federal commission
voted against closing the New London submarine base in Groton, Conn.,
and the Portsmouth shipyard in Kittery, Maine.
(AP, 8/24/06)
2005 Sep 28, A high-speed Amtrak
Acela hit a car at a crossing in Waterford, Conn., killing 2 people and
causing major Northeast Corridor delays.
(WSJ, 9/29/05, p.A1)
2005 Aug 29, A Connecticut man
known on the Internet as "illwill" pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal
court to charges relating to the theft of the source code to Microsoft
Corp.'s Windows operating software, considered among the company's
crown jewels. William Genovese, Jr. (28) admitted selling the source
code for Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0. On January 27, 2006, he was
sentenced to 2 years in jail.
(AP,
8/29/05)(www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/genovesePlea.htm)
2005 Oct 1, In Connecticut
legislation permitting same-sex civil unions took effect.
(SSFC, 10/2/05, p.A5)
2005 Oct 7, Charles Rocket (56),
actor and comedian, died of apparent suicide near his home in
Connecticut. Rocket was a cast member of Saturday Night Live during the
1980-81 season.
(SFC, 10/18/05, p.B4)
2005 Nov 1, Skitch Henderson (87),
the Grammy-winning conductor who lent his musical expertise to Frank
Sinatra and Bing Crosby before founding the New York Pops (1983) and
becoming the first "Tonight Show" bandleader (1954), died in New Haven,
Conn.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2006 Feb 27, Connecticut state
officials said Venezuela will provide 4.8 million gallons of heating
oil at a 40% discount to households that qualify for state home heat
assistance. Venezuela has also sent shipments to Massachusetts, Maine,
Rhode Island, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Vermont. The Bronx in New York
City also joined the program.
(Reuters, 2/27/06)
2006 Mar 3, It was reported that
Save the Children USA, a Connecticut-based humanitarian organization,
will withdraw from Iraq due to deteriorating security there.
(SFC, 3/3/06, p.A3)
2006 May 2, Louis Rukeyser (73)
died in Connecticut. The best-selling author, columnist, lecturer and
television host had delivered pun-filled, commonsense commentary on
complicated business and economic news.
(AP, 5/3/06)
2006 Jun 18, Donald Reilly,
prominent cartoonist, died in Norwalk, Con. His work included 1,107
cartoons and 16 covers for the New Yorker magazine.
(SFC, 6/21/06, p.B7)
2006 Jun 22, In Connecticut E.
Forbes Smiley III (50), of Martha's Vineyard, Mass., admitted in
federal court that he had stolen nearly 100 rare maps worth about $3
million in a case that sent librarians and investigators scurrying to
review collections and recover stolen treasures.
(AP, 6/24/06)
2006 Aug 8, Voters in Connecticut
rejected three-term Sen. Joe Lieberman for Ned Lamont, a political
newcomer, in the nation's first major test of the depth of anger over
the Iraq war. Lieberman ended up winning re-election to the Senate by
running as an independent.
(AP, 8/9/06)(AP, 8/8/07)
2006 Nov 7, Joe Lieberman, running
as an independent, won the Connecticut Senate race over Ned Lamont with
52% of the vote.
(Econ, 11/11/06, p.37)
2006 Dec 15, New US rules went
into effect governing the reporting of public sector pension assets. A
number of US states faced pension asset shortfalls. Taxpayers in
Connecticut and Rhode Island faced some $3500 in unfunded liabilities
per citizen. California faced $49 billion in unfunded pension
liabilities.
(Econ, 11/18/06, p.36)
2007 Mar 13, Federal agents in
Connecticut raided New Haven police headquarters and charged the head
of the narcotics division with stealing thousands of dollars planted by
the FBI during sting operations.
(AP, 3/14/07)
2007 Mar 29, Robert Marshall
Vignola (50) of Hamden, Conn., an American entrepreneur who introduced
foreign men to "young, sexy, exotic and beautiful Latin Women" via the
Internet, was killed in the western city of Cali by gunmen on a
motorcycle.
(AP, 4/1/07)
2007 Apr 8, Sol LeWitt (78),
Connecticut-based artist and sculptor, died in NY. He was known for his
dynamic wall paintings and as a founder of minimal and conceptual art
styles.
(SFC, 4/10/07, p.D9)
2007 May 4, Reuters Group PLC said
that it had received a preliminary takeover approach. The bidder was
identified as Thomson Corp., a financial data and information provider
based in Stamford, Conn., owned by the Thomson family of Canada.
(AP, 5/4/07)(http://tinyurl.com/2m8qt5)
2007 May 8, News and information
company Reuters Group PLC and financial data provider Thomson Corp.
confirmed that they are discussing a combination of their businesses
that values Reuters at more than $17 billion.
(AP, 5/8/07)
2007 May 15, Reuters agreed to a
$17.2 billion takeover by the Thomson family of Canada that would vault
the combined entity ahead of Bloomberg to become the world's largest
financial data and news provider.
(AP, 5/15/07)
2007 Jun 6, Adam Gault (41), a dog
trainer in Bloomfield, Conn., was arrested with two women who lived in
his home after police with a search warrant found a missing 15-year-old
girl locked in a hidden room in the house. The girl had vanished last
June. Gault later pleaded guilty to kidnapping and sexually assaulting
the girl.
(AP, 6/7/07)(AP, 6/6/08)
2007 Jun, New Haven, Connecticut,
passed a proposal through the board of aldermen 25 to 1 for an ID card
to be made available to immigrants on July 24. The mayor was
supportive, Yale Law School provided legal representation, and local
immigrant-rights groups lobbied for it. The first cards were issued in
July.
(CSM, 7/17/07)(Econ, 8/4/07, p.29)
2007 Jul 4, In Bridgeport, Conn.,
a mother and 3 children drowned after their van rolled into a park pond.
(SFC, 7/6/07, p.A7)
2007 Jul 23, A woman and her two
daughters were killed during a violent home invasion in Cheshire, Conn.
Dr. William Petit, was badly beaten but escaped. Steven Hayes (44) and
Joshua Komisarjevsky (27), on parole at the time for other burglaries,
were accused of their murder. Prosecutors later said they will seek the
death penalty.
(AP,
7/23/08)(www.nbc30.com/news/14405181/detail.html)
2007 Aug 20, Leona Helmsley (87),
the NYC hotelier who went to prison as a tax cheat and was reviled as
the "queen of mean," died at her home in Greenwich, Conn.
(AP, 8/20/07)(Econ, 8/25/07, p.79)
2008 Feb 25, In Connecticut 5
former insurance company executives were found guilty of a scheme to
manipulate the financial statements of the world's largest insurance
company, American International Group Inc.
(AP, 2/25/08)
2008 Feb 27, William F. Buckley
(b.1925), conservative author of over 50 books and editor of the
National Review, died at his home in Connecticut.
(AP, 2/27/08)(SFC, 2/28/08, p.A1)
2008 Jun 8, Wicked weekend storms
pounded the US from the Midwest to the East Coast, forcing hundreds of
people to flee flooded communities, spawning tornadoes that tore up
houses and killing at least eight people in Indiana (1), Michigan (6),
Connecticut (1). Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle declared a state of emergency
in 29 counties and President Bush declared a major disaster in 29
Indiana counties, freeing up aid. Iowa Gov. Chet Culver declared an
emergency in nearly a third of the state's 99 counties.
(AP, 6/8/08)
2008 Jun, The watchdog group
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government (CREW) complained
that Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) had received
“sweatheart” mortgage deals from Countrywide while they were chairmen
of Senate committees. Both men were cleared by a Senate ethics
committee in 2009.
(SFC, 8/8/09, p.A4)
2008 Sep 26, Paul Newman (b.1925),
the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as the
anti-hero of such films as "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of
Money," died after a long battle with cancer at his farmhouse near
Westport, Conn.
(AP, 9/27/08)
2008 Oct 10, The Connecticut
Supreme Court voted 4-3 to give gay and lesbian couples the right to
marry ruling that civil unions fell short of giving them full equality.
It became the 3rd state to legalize such unions.
(SFC, 10/11/08, p.A6)(WSJ, 10/11/08, p.A7)
2008 Nov 12, A judge cleared the
way for gay marriage to begin in Connecticut, a victory for advocates
stung by California's referendum that banned same-sex unions in that
state.
(AP, 11/12/08)
2008 Dec 2, Henry Molaison (82), a
native of Connecticut, died. In the 1950s he had his medial temporal
lobes removed by surgery to alleviate his grand mal epileptic seizures.
From that point on he was unable to form new memories. Scientists
learned from Molaison that the hippocampus is crucial in forming some
long term memories, but not for maintaining or retrieving them.
(Econ, 12/20/08, p.146)
2009 Jan 27, Eddied Perez (b.1957,
former gang leader and mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, surrendered to
police to face a bribery charge related to home renovations.
(SFC, 1/28/09, p.A4)
2009 Feb 16, In Stamford,
Connecticut, a 200-pound domesticated chimpanzee was shot dead by
police after a violent rampage that left a friend of its owner badly
mauled. Travis (15) had once starred in TV commercials for Old Navy and
Coca-Cola. The chimp was acting so agitated earlier that afternoon that
the owner gave him the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in some tea. Owner
Sandra Herold later denied giving Xanax to the chimp. Charla Nash lost
her hands, nose, lips and eyelids in the attack. Doctors later said she
will be blind for life.
(AP, 2/17/09)(SFC, 2/19/09, p.A5)(AP, 4/7/09)
2009 Mar 21, The attorney general
of Connecticut said that he is asking AIG why documents appear to show
the company paid $53 million more in bonuses to its financial products
division than previously reported. a busload of activists representing
working- and middle-class families paid visits to the lavish homes of
American International Group executives to protest the tens of millions
of dollars in bonuses awarded by the struggling insurance company after
it received a massive federal bailout.
(AP, 3/21/09)(AP, 3/22/09)
2009 Apr 2, In Connecticut a
judge, citing DNA evidence, dropped murder charges against Miguel
Roman, who served 20 years of a 60-year sentence after being convicted
of the 1988 slaying of Carmen Lopez (17), his pregnant girlfriend. The
same DNA tests that exonerated Roman implicated led police in December
to charge another man, Pedro Miranda of New Britain. He is accused in
the killings of Lopez, 16-year-old Rosa Valentin in 1986 and
13-year-old Mayra Cruz in 1987. Miranda (51) faced the possibility of
the death penalty if convicted.
(SFC, 4/3/09, p.A6)
2009 Apr 22, In Connecticut a
decade-long battle for marriage equality ended when the General
Assembly voted to update the state's marriage laws to conform with a
landmark court ruling allowing gay and lesbian couples to tie the knot.
(AP, 4/23/09)
2009 May 7, In Connecticut
Wesleyan University junior Johanna Justin-Jinich was gunned down by a
man wearing a wig. Officers arrested Stephen P. Morgan (29) the next
night standing outside the store in Meriden, 10 miles from where the
woman was killed. Morgan's journals contained threats against Jews and
mentioned plans for a shooting spree at Wesleyan.
(AP, 5/8/09)
2009 May 23, It was reported that
millions of bats in at least 7 US states (Connecticut, New York,
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia) have
died from white-nose syndrome, a fungal diseases.
(Econ, 5/23/09, p.36)
2009 Jun 29, The US Supreme Court
ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied
promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court
nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.
(AP, 6/29/09)
2009 Sep 8, In Connecticut Annie
Le (24), a California graduate student at Yale, disappeared after
entering a laboratory building. She was due to be married on Sep 13. On
Sep 13 police found her body stuffed behind a wall in the high-security
laboratory building where she worked.
(SSFC, 9/13/09, p.A16)(AP, 9/14/09)
2009 Sep 17, In Connecticut
Raymond Clark III (24) was arrested at a hotel and charged with
murdering Annie Le (24), whose body was found on Sep 13, stuffed in the
wall of a research building at Yale on what would have been her wedding
day.
(AP, 9/17/09)
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