October 6: A Presidential Debate Where the Candidates Only Attacked Issues

  The national spotlight landed on Hartford, Connecticut on the evening of October 6, 1996, as  the nation’s presidential candidates held the first presidential debate of the campaign se…

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February 9: Connecticut’s 1st African-American Congressman

  Today in 1953, future Congressman Gary A. Franks was born in Waterbury, the youngest of six children in a family of limited means. His parents put a high value on education, and all six of t…

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