• Puppetry
  Resources from The Arts Center
• Early Childhood Community
  This community has been created to celebrate the creativity and dedication of all those who participate in the education of young children.

Horace Walpole, English writer, born (1717)

F. Scott Fitzgerald, key writer in American literature (Great Gatsby), born (1896)

• 9-12 Literature & Poetry Center
  Resources and tools from our Language & Literature Center

Georges Claude, French inventor of neon light, born (1870)

John Marshall, early Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who was influential in establishing its modern day structure, born (1755)

Theodore Geisel, author (Dr Seuss), died at 87 (1991)

• Rhyme Time Poetry Plans and Projects
• Dr. Seuss Inspires Read to Kids Day
• Seussville

60 Minutes, investigative TV news show, debuted (1968)

Congress passed the First Judiciary Act which provided for an Attorney General and the Supreme Court (1789)

Congress established the U.S. Post Office (1789)

USS Enterprise, first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launched (1960)

The U.S. and the world's other major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons (1996)

President Dwight Eisenhower ordered Federal troops sent to Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect Black students at the newly integrated Central High School (1957)

• Civil Rights Movement
• States Step Up Efforts to Reduce School Segregation
  In response to a state Supreme Court ruling that children in Hartford’s urban schools were receiving an inferior and unequal education, Connecticut stepped up efforts to improve the education of urban schools.