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• January 30: She Cooked Up the Recipe for Success, and Set the Table for Those Who Followed – Today

    Before the fictional Betty Crocker and the very real Julia Child, Gordon Ramsay, Paula Dean, Bobby Flay, and Rachel Ray, there was Ida Bailey Allen. Born today in 1885 in Danielson, Allen used train...

• January 28: The World’s First Commercial Telephone Exchange – Today in Connecticut History

    In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a U.S. Patent for the first practical telephone design, ushering in one of the most revolutionary devices of the late 19th century.  The earliest telephones, ...

• May 13: Hartford’s Pope Company Debuts Electric Automobile in 1897 – Today in Connecticut History

    On this date in 1897, outside his factory in Hartford, successful bicycle manufacturer Albert Augustus Pope unveiled what he considered to be the future of the automobile industry: the battery-power...

• June 6: In the Skies of France, A D-Day Message From Mom – Today in Connecticut History

    In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, Private Robert C. Hillman became one of over 13,000 American paratroopers to leap out of a plane over Normandy as part of the "D-Day" invasion of occupied...

• July 8: The Sermon That Terrified Its Way Into History – Today in Connecticut History

    In the early 1740s, New England was in the midst of a sweeping religious revival now known as the Great Awakening. Charismatic evangelical ministers traveled from town to town on a mission to invigo...

• September 12: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Teenage Summer in Simsbury – Today in Connecticut History

    Years before he became an internationally famous orator and civil rights leader, young Martin Luther King, Jr. worked a number of jobs to make ends meet for his family. During the summer of 1944, af...