1. In 1789, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the United States Constitution, signaling its official inclusion in the new federal government.

2. On April 21, 1837, New Hampshire's Mount Washington Observatory recorded the world's highest surface wind speed at 231 miles per hour. The record held until 1996 when an unmanned instrument station recorded a wind speed of 253 miles per hour on Australia's Barrow Island.

3. In 1934, New Hampshire's historic colonial town of Portsmouth officially opened the Memorial Bridge, which spans the Piscataqua River and connects New Hampshire to Maine. The bridge was the first in the United States to employ the use of a vertical lift to accommodate marine traffic.

4. On April 21, 1948, New Hampshire-born Ralph Baer filed for the first-ever video game patent, setting in motion the development of what would become the modern video game industry.

5. In 2000, New Hampshire's Governor Jeanne Shaheen signed into law the Civil Rights Act of New Hampshire, which added protections for sexual orientation to the state's anti-discrimination law. The act made New Hampshire the second state in the United States to pass such protections.