A few days after, the heat moved to the east, with temperatures in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania reaching and in Danbury, Connecticut, which is Connecticut's highest recorded temperature.

The first occurrence of the phrase blue law so far found is in the New-York Mercury of March 3, 1755, where the writer imagines a future newspaper praising the revival of " our Connecticut's old Blue Laws ".

Much of southern and western Connecticut ( along with the majority of the state's population ) is part of the New York metropolitan area ; three of Connecticut's eight counties are statistically included in the New York City combined statistical area, the same area is widely referred to as the Tri-State area.

Connecticut's center of population is in Cheshire, New Haven County, which is also located within the Tri-State area.

Connecticut's other traditional industry is financial services ; for example, insurance companies in Hartford and hedge funds in Fairfield County.

Although Connecticut is a wealthy state by most measures, the income gap between its urban and suburban areas is striking, with several of Connecticut's cities ranking among the nation's poorest and most dangerous.

* January 14 – Connecticut's first constitution, the Fundamental Orders, is adopted.

* December 7 – Connecticut Route 108, one of Connecticut's oldest highways is laid-out to Trumbull.

Since there is no county government or county seat in any of Connecticut's counties, Fairfield County, is only a geographical point of reference.

* Musicals at Richter, held every summer in Danbury, is Connecticut's longest running outdoor theater

As is the case with all eight of Connecticut's counties, there is now no county government, and no county seat.

Thus, as is the case with all eight of Connecticut's counties, there is no county government, and no county seat.

As is the case with all eight of Connecticut's counties, there is no county government and no county seat.

Redding is rural compared to the towns along Connecticut's Gold Coast.

Located along Connecticut's Gold Coast, it is one of the most affluent communities in the United States.

It is part of Connecticut's 1st congressional district.

Suffield is on the west bank of the Connecticut River, south of the Connecticut River's largest city, Springfield, Massachusetts, and north of Connecticut's capital, Hartford, Connecticut.

Realtors in attendance at the colloquium expressed interest, for example, in Connecticut's new housing law as setting standards of equity that they would like `` to have to obey '', but in support of which none had been willing to go on public record.

* Jim Calhoun ( 1942-), head coach of the University of Connecticut's men's basketball team, which won two national championships, and who was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005 ; began his career as a coach in town at Lyme-Old Lyme High School

Unlike most similar lawsuits, which are dismissed or settled before trial, Connecticut's lawsuit went to trial in October, 2007.

The new tax law eliminated Connecticut's Capital Gains Tax and Dividend and Interest Income Tax, which had taxed investment income at rates of 10 % to 12 %.

Mount Frissell, on which is located Connecticut's highest elevation, as seen from Bear Mountain

: Georgia ceded this land on 1802-04-24, 12 years after all other western land cessions had been: completed ( except for Connecticut's " Western Reserve " – which was given up the year 1800 ).

In mid-1997, Meredith swapped WCPX to Post-Newsweek Stations in exchange for Hartford, Connecticut's WFSB ( which at the time was Post-Newsweek's flagship ).

On July 9, 1996, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the state had an affirmative obligation to provide Connecticut's school children with a substantially equal educational opportunity and that this constitutionally guaranteed right encompasses the access to a public education which is not substantially and materially impaired by racial and ethnic isolation.

In 1981, despite its vast holdings of vintage railroad stock, Steamtown had only 17, 000 visitors, while Connecticut's Essex Valley Railroad, which ran two small engines, had 139, 000 visitors.

Madison is a town in the southeastern corner of New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, occupying a central location on Connecticut's Long Island Sound shoreline.

A relatively small community on Connecticut's " Gold Coast ", the population was 20, 732 at the 2010 census.

Cantor appeared on radio as early as February 3, 1922, as indicated by this news item from Connecticut's Bridgeport Telegram:

A tollbooth that was in service from 1940 to 1988 on Connecticut's Merritt Parkway is on display in Boothe Memorial Park.

Weicker ran on a platform of solving Connecticut's fiscal crisis without the implementation of the broad-based income tax to include the taxation of earned income.

Weicker's critics are quick to blame his implementation of the state income tax for Connecticut's loss of one congressional district as a result of the 2000 census ( based on the theory that the tax increased the rate of people leaving the state ).

He also serves on the Board of Directors of the United Negro College Fund, an educational assistance organization, and Connecticut's Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority.

He also connected on 104 three-pointers, the second-highest single season total in Connecticut's history.

Rizzo was convicted of the murder in 1999 and is currently on Connecticut's death row.

In Poe v. Ullman, the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to Connecticut's ban on birth control, writing:

Appointed as Connecticut's member on the original Republican National Committee in February 1856, he died in Hartford on May 30, 1856 and was interned in town at Old North Cemetery.

Little Willie Benton, Connecticut's mental midget keeps on ... it will be unnecessary for me or anyone else to do any campaigning against him.

Some hospitals, like the Yale-affiliated Greenwich Hospital ( Connecticut ) on Connecticut's Golden Coast, have such limited space for parking that the emergency room is valet parking only, to fit as many cars in as possible.

In April 2005, on PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, she called Connecticut's resistance to the No Child Left Behind Act the " soft bigotry of low expectations.

Portions of Connecticut's statute were held unconstitutional in August, 2009, on grounds that it unfairly discriminated against third party and independent candidates, but the core program of full funding of constitutional and legislative candidates remains in place.

Calhoun retired as Connecticut's basketball coach on September 13, 2012, closing a 26-year career at UConn.