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• Much of the action in Julian May's science fiction saga the Galactic Milieu Series takes place in the state, with New Hampshire being the capital of the "Human Polity", in effect the center of government of the human race.

Notable residents or natives

Granite State firsts

See List of New Hampshire-related topics

• On January 5, 1776 at Exeter, the Provincial Congress of New Hampshire ratified the first independent state constitution, free of British rule. Having done this six months before co-founding the United States of America, New Hampshire was the first post-colonial sovereign country in the Americas.
• On June 12, 1800, Fernald's Island in the Piscataqua River became the first government-sanctioned US Navy shipyard.
• Started in 1822, Dublin's Juvenile Library was the first free public library.
• In 1828, the first women's strike in the nation took place at Dover's Cocheco Mills.
• In 1845, the machine shop of Nashuan John H. Gage was considered the first shop devoted to the manufacture of machinists' tools.
• On August 29, 1866, Sylvester Marsh demonstrated the first mountain-climbing "cog" railway.
• Finished on June 27, 1874, the first trans-Atlantic telecommunications cable between Europe and America stretched from Balinskelligs Bay, Ireland, to Rye Beach, New Hampshire.
• On February 6, 1901, a group of nine conservationists founded the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, the first forest conservation advocacy group in the US.
• In 1908, Monsignor Pierre Hevey organized the nation's first credit union, in Manchester, to help mill workers save and borrow money.
• In 1933 the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen held the first crafts fair in the nation.
• In 1934, the current record for the highest recorded surface wind gust (231 mph) was set on Mount Washington.
• In 1937 The Belknap Recreation Area installed the first chairlift for skiing in the East.
• In 1938 Earl Tupper, of Berlin, invented Tupperware and founded Tupper Plastics Company.
• In July 1944, the Bretton Woods Agreement, the first fully-negotiated system intended to govern monetary relations among independent nation-states, was signed at the Mount Washington Hotel.
• On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard of Derry rode a Mercury spacecraft and became the first American in space.
• In 1963, New Hampshire's legislature approved the nation's first modern state lottery, which began play in 1964.
• In 1966, Ralph Baer of Sanders Associates, Inc., Nashua, recruited engineers to develop the first home video game.
• Christa McAuliffe of Concord became the first private citizen selected to venture into space. She perished with her six space shuttle Challenger crewmates on January 28, 1986.
• On May 17, 1996 New Hampshire became the first state in the country to install a green LED traffic light. NH was selected because they were the first to start installing the red and yellow ones statewide.
• On May 31, 2007 New Hampshire became "...the first state to embrace same-sex unions without a court order or the threat of one."

See also

• Free State Project
• LGBT rights in New Hampshire
• New Hampshire census statistical areas
• New Hampshire State Police
• Scouting in New Hampshire

References

1. [http://www.nhcrafts.org/annualfair.htm League of New Hampshire Craftsmen's Fair] Accessed 9 November 2007
2. The Story of the World Record Wind
3. Sending a bright signal, Concord Monitor pg B-6, May 18, 1996
4. Wang, Beverley. (26 April 2007) State Senate approves civil unions for same-sex couples Concord Monitor. Accessed 26 April 2007.
5. NH Firsts & Bests Accessed 9 November 2007

Further reading

• Michael Sletcher. New England. Westport, CT, 2004.

External links

• Official State Website
• New Hampshire Historical Society
• The New Hampshire Almanac
• USGS real-time, geographic, and other scientific resources of New Hamphsire
• New Hampshire State Facts
• Directory of movie filming locations in the state

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