Source: Good News Network
On this day 380 years ago, colonists residing in the Connecticut River towns (including Hartford), adopted what some consider to be the first written constitution that created a government. Desiring to unite and “walk peaceably and lovingly together,” they signed the Fundamental Orders, which gave voters and citizens more rights and established Connecticut as a self-ruled colony… That’s why Connecticut’s nickname today is ‘The Constitution State’.
(1639)MORE Good News on this Date:
- The clarinet was invented in Nuremberg, Germany (1690)
- U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the Kremlin accords to halt the aiming of nuclear missiles at any nation and order the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine (1994)
- Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (1998)
- The first detailed pictures of the frozen surface of Saturn’s moon, Titan, were sent back by a European space probe (2005)
- Tunisia, the first nation to establish an Arab Spring uprising, won a victory when their president of 24 years fled the country after thousands of Tunisians protested in a “Jasmine Revolution” against poverty and heavy taxation (2011)
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