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On April 15, 2013, two pressure-cooker bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 260.

Granite, marble and bronze, a melding of old and new materials, form a resurrected monument unveiled Thursday at the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford.

On This Day: First U.S. school for the deaf opens in Connecticut On April 15, 1817, the first U.S. public school for the deaf, Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons (now the American School for the Deaf), was founded at Hartford, Conn. By (0) The American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, Conn., was the first permanent school for the deaf to open in the United States, on April 15, 1817. File Photo by Ragesoss/Wikimedia Firefighters battle to extingu...