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Abenaki Indians named Mount Monadnock, meaning
"island mountain."
(SFC, 6/17/00, p.C3)
New Hampshire is called the Granite State and in 2004 was the
only state with neither an income tax nor a sales tax.
(SSFC, 1/25/04, p.D6)
1679 Jul 10, The
British crown claimed New Hampshire as a royal colony.
(HN, 7/10/98)
1679 Sep 18, New Hampshire became
a county Massachusetts Bay Colony.
(MC, 9/18/01)
1719 In New Hampshire the first
potato in America was planted in Londonderry Common Field.
(SFC, 1/29/00, p.E3)
1725 Feb 20, New Hampshire
militiamen partook in the first recorded scalping of Indians by whites
in North America. 10 sleeping Indians were scalped by whites for scalp
bounty.
(HN, 2/20/99)(MC, 2/20/02)
1761 The town of Killington was
chartered in New Hampshire.
(ST, 3/2/04, p.A1)
1769 Dec 13, Dartmouth College, in
Hanover, New Hampshire, received its charter.
(AP, 12/13/97)(SFC, 2/11/99, p.A3)
1774 Dec 13, Some 400 colonists
attacked Ft. William & Mary, NH.
(MC, 12/13/01)
1775-1782 New Hampshire was the only one of the
original 13 colonies not invaded by the British during the
Revolutionary War.
(HNQ, 7/31/99)
1776 Jan 5, Assembly of New
Hampshire adopted its 1st state constitution.
(MC, 1/5/02)
1782 Jan 18, Daniel Webster
(1782-1852, aka Black Dan) American political leader, Senator and
orator, lawyer, statesman, administrator and diplomat, was born in
Salisbury, N.H. In 1830 he proclaimed "Liberty and Union, now and
forever, one and inseparable!"
(HFA, '96, p.22)(AHD, p.1452)(WSJ, 9/30/97,
p.A20)(AP, 1/18/98)
1791 Mar 21, Captain Hopley Yeaton
(1740-1812) of New Hampshire became the first commissioned officer of
the US Revenue Cutter Service.
(www.uscg.mil/history/WEBCUTTERS/Scammel_1791.html)(http://tinyurl.com/goke5)
1804 Mar 12, Judge John Pickering,
a federal district judge in New Hampshire, was the first American
official impeached and then found guilty by the Senate. Pickering, a
Federalist, was impeached as unfit based on charges related to his
habitual drunkenness and bizarre handling of cases. He was adjudged
guilty and removed from office in spite of evidence establishing that
he was insane and hence not culpable of high crimes or misdemeanors.
Impeached during the same period, Chief Justice Samuel Chase was
acquitted by the Senate on March 1, 1805, ending the Republican
campaign against the Federalist bench and discouraging subsequent
administrations from using impeachment to remove politically obnoxious
judges.
(HNQ, 1/21/99)
1804 Nov 23, The 14th president of
the United States, Franklin Pierce, was born in Hillsboro, N.H.
(AP, 11/23/97)
1830 Sarah Josepha Hale of
Newport, N.H., published a collection of poems "Poems for Our
Children," that included "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
(SFC, 8/24/98, p.B6)
1831 Joseph Foster began building
reed organs and melodeons. In 1845 he moved from Winchester to Keene
and was joined by his brother Ephraim. The firm became known as
"J&E Foster." They worked together until Joseph died in 1875.
(SFC, 2/18/98, Z1 p.3)
1833 Apr 9, The
nation's first tax-supported public library was founded in
Peterborough, N.H.
(AP, 4/9/97)
1835 Aug 10, Mob of whites and
oxen pulled a black school to a swamp outside of Canaan, NH.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1846 Nov 4, Benjamin F. Palmer of
Meredith N.H. received a patent on an artificial human leg.
(SFEC, 3/29/98, Z1 p.8)
1847 The North Conway railroad
depot was established.
(SFEC,11/16/97, p.T7)
1850 Apr 20, Daniel Chester French
(d.1931), sculptor of the Concord Minuteman, was born at Exeter, New
Hampshire. He had his estate in Stockbridge, Mass. His work also
included the Lincoln Memorial. His Chesterwood estate became a museum
with an annual 6-month summer season. [Ph. 413-298-3579]
(HN, 4/20/98)(WSJ, 5/4/99, p.A20)
1852 It took 49 ballots to
nominate Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire, for the presidency.
(WSJ, 2/11/03, p.A10)
1853-1857 Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the US,
acquired land from Mexico and supported the nation’s 1st trade
agreement with Japan. Jefferson Davis served as his secretary of war.
(A&IP, ESM, p.96b, photo)(WSJ, 2/11/03, p.A10)
1856 St. Paul’s prep school was
founded in Concord, New Hampshire. In 2003 headmaster Bishop Craig
Anderson was paid an annual salary of $524,000.
(WSJ, 8/25/03, p.A1)
1864 May 19, Nathaniel Hawthorne
(b.1804), US writer (Scarlet Letter), died in Plymouth, New Hampshire.
(MC, 5/19/02)(http://www.gradesaver.com/)
1869 Oct 8, Franklin Pierce (64),
the 14th president (1853-1857) of the United States, died in Concord,
N.H.
(AP, 10/8/97)(MC, 10/8/01)
1872 Oct 11, Harlan Fiske Stone,
Supreme Court (1925-41) Chief Justice (41-46), was born in New
Hampshire.
(MC, 10/11/01)
1872 In New Hampshire workers
digging fence post hole, for businessman and naturalist Seneca Ladd
(d.1892), discovered a lump of clay that contained a 4x2½-inch
egg-shaped stone with a variety of carved features. It came to be known
as the “Mystery Stone.” Ladd’s daughter donated the stone to the New
Hampshire Historical Society in 1927.
(SFC, 7/24/06, p.E3)
1875 Oct 4, Josie Langmaid (17)
disappeared while walking to Pembroke Academy, the local Pembroke high
school. Her body was found that night and her head was found the next
day. Joseph LaPage, an itinerant woodcutter, was eventually convicted
of the crime and executed.
(WSJ, 5/22/01, p.A8)
1902 Mar 30, Roberta Brooke
Russell (d.2007) was born in Portsmouth, NH. In 1953 she married
millionaire Vincent Astor (d.1959) and became a major philanthropist
following his death.
(SFC, 8/14/07, p.B5)
1902 In Buffalo, NY, the U.S. Hame
Co. was formed as the result of a consolidation of two 19th century
hame and saddlery manufacturers, the United Hame Co. of Buffalo, NY,
and the Consolidated Hame Co. of Andover, New Hampshire. In 1917 it
changed its name to USHCO and started making chassis for Ford and
Chevrolet trucks.
(www.coachbuilt.com/bui/u/us_body/us_body.htm)(SFC,
8/15/07, p.G7)
1905 Sep. 5, The Treaty of
Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese War, was signed in New Hampshire.
(AP, 9/5/97)
1907 The MacDowell Colony was
founded in Peterborough, New Hampshire, to nurture the arts by
providing creative individuals with an inspiring environment. It was
founded in honor of composer Edward MacDowell (d.1908).
(WSJ, 3/20/06,
p.B1)(www.macdowellcolony.org/history.html)
1911 Jul 4, 106º F (41º
C) at Nashua, New Hampshire (state record).
(Maggio, 98)
1923 Nov 18, Alan Shepard, the
first American astronaut in space, was born in East Derry, NH.
(HN, 11/18/98)(MC, 11/18/01)
1934 Apr 12, In New Hampshire a
weather station on Mount Washington recorded a record wind gust of 231
mph before the anemometer broke.
(SSFC, 4/12/09, p.C10)
1938 Mar 3, A world record for the
indoor mile run was set at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH this day.
Glenn Cunningham made the distance in 4 minutes, 4.4 seconds.
(HC, Internet, 3/3/98)
1939 Jul 13, Howard Long was
hanged at the New Hampshire State Prison for the sex-killing of
10-year-old Mark Neville Jensen of Alton.
(http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~archives/ABOLISH/aug97/0184.html)
1941 Jul 29, David Warner, actor
(Star Trek VI, Time Bandits), was born in Manchester, NH.
(MC, 7/29/02)
1942 John Irving, author, was born
in Exeter. In 1978 he authored his novel "The World According to Garp,"
which was made into a 1982 film.
(SSFC, 7/8/01, DB p.66)
1943 Jul 12, The US submarine
Pampanito was christened in New Hampshire. In 1982 the sub opened to
the public at Pier 45 in San Francisco.
(SFC, 9/24/03, p.A23)
1944 Jul 1, Delegates from 44
countries began meeting at Bretton Woods, N.H., where they agreed to
establish the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The US
hosted an international conference at Bretton Woods, N.H., to deal with
international monetary and financial problems. The talks resulted in
the creation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World
Bank in 1945. The agreement was a gold exchange standard and only the
US was required to convert its currency into gold at a fixed rate, and
only foreign central banks were allowed the privilege of redemption. In
1983 Michael Moffitt authored “The World’s Money: Int’l. Banking from
Bretton Woods to the Brink of Insolvency.” In 1997 Catherine Caufield
wrote "Masters of Illusion: The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations."
(SFC, 1/13/98, p.A4)(WSJ, 10/15/98, p.A22)(AP,
7/1/04)(WM, 1983, p.13)
1945 May 16, The Nazi submarine
U-234 surrendered to US forces at Portsmouth, NH. It had been bound for
Tokyo with 10 containers of uranium oxide. The atomic material ended up
in the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(SFC, 9/1/03, p.B4)(www.uboat.net/)
1946 Blair Clark (d.2000 at 82)
founded the New Hampshire Sunday News. In 1968 he served as campaign
manager for presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy.
(SFC, 6/9/00, p.D5)
1946-1977 PCBs were released into the Hudson River by
2 General Electric plants and were buried in sediment along 197 miles
that was later declared a Superfund site. The EPA expected GE to dredge
some 35 miles at a cost of some $1 billion. GE fought the cleanup law
and was also involved in Superfund sites at Hoboken NJ and Milford NH.
Cleanup of the Hudson River began in 2009 at an estimated cost of $750
million, to be paid by GE. The sludge was scheduled to be buried in
West Texas.
(SFC, 11/29/00, p.A10)(SFC, 5/16/09, p.A5)(SFC,
6/22/09, p.A9)
1950 Cedar Waters Village, a
Christian nudist resort in Nottingham, N.H., was founded.
(WSJ, 8/11/97, p.A1)
1952 Republican Dwight Eisenhower
won the New Hampshire primary over Robert Taft 50.2 to 38.6%. Democrat
Estes Kefauver won over Harry Truman 54.6 to 43.9%.
(SSFC, 1/25/04, p.A19)
1953-1955 Hugh Gregg (d.2003 at 85), moderate
Republican, served as New Hampshire governor.
(SFC, 9/25/03, p.A23)
1956 Democrat Estes Kefauver won
the New Hampshire primary over Adlai Stevenson 84.6 to 14.8%.
(SSFC, 1/25/04, p.A19)
1960 Republican Richard Nixon won
the New Hampshire primary over Nelson Rockefeller 89.3 to 3.8%.
Democrat John Kennedy won over Paul Fisher 85.2 to 13.5%.
(SSFC, 1/25/04, p.A19)
1961 Sep 19-20, Betty (d.2004) and
Bernard Hill returned home to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from a trip in
Canada and seemed to have lost memory of 2 hours of the drive. Under
hypnosis 3 years later they recounted being kidnapped and examined by
aliens. Their story led to the 1966 book “Interrupted Journey” by John
G. Fuller.
(SFC, 10/19/04,
p.B6)(www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/hill.htm)
1964 May 1, The 1st BASIC program
ran on a computer at Dartmouth.
(MC, 5/1/02)
1964 Republican Henry Lodge won
the New Hampshire primary over Barry Goldwater 35.5 to 22.3%. Nelson
Rockefeller took 21% and Richard Nixon took 16.8%.
(SSFC, 1/25/04, p.A19)
1968 Mar 12, President Lyndon
Johnson won the New Hampshire Democratic primary, but a strong
second-place showing by anti-war Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota
played a role in Johnson's decision not to seek re-election. Johnson
won over Eugene McCarthy 49.6 to 41.9%. Republican Richard Nixon won
the New Hampshire primary over Nelson Rockefeller 77.6 to 10.8%.
(SSFC, 1/25/04, p.A19)(AP, 3/12/08)
1969 In Fremont Austin Wiggin led
his 3 daughters, named The Shaggs, to record "Philosophy of the World."
The recording became an underground legend and in 1999 RCA Victor
released a CD version. Writer Irwin Chusid devoted a chapter to the
group in his 1999 book "Songs in the Key of Z."
(WSJ, 3/2/99, p.A17)
1972 Mar 7, Republican Richard
Nixon won the New Hampshire primary over Paul McCloskey 67.6 to 19.8%.
Democrat Edmund Muskie won over George McGovern 46.4 to 37.1%.
(SSFC, 1/25/04, p.A19)(http://tinyurl.com/5dndxk)
1972 J.D. Salinger (53) began a
months-long courtship of Joyce Maynard (18) that culminated in her
leaving Yale Univ. and moving to his farm in New Hampshire. In 1998
Maynard published "At Home in the World," that included an account of
her relationship with Salinger.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, BR p.5)
1972 Dartmouth College in New
Hampshire, chartered in 1769, began admitting women.
(SFC, 2/11/99,
p.A3)(http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Dartmouth+College)
1973-1979 Meldrim Thomson (d.2001 at 89), Republican,
served as governor.
(SFC, 4/20/01, p.D5)
1976 Feb 24, Republican Gerald
Ford won the New Hampshire primary over Ronald Reagan 50.1 to 48.6%.
Democrat Jimmie Carter won over Mo Udall and Birch Bayh 28.7 to 23 to
15.3%.
(SSFC, 1/25/04,
p.A19)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_primary)
1976 Massachusetts moved its
primary from late April to early March. New Hampshire reacted by moving
the due date to February and then to late January.
(SSFC, 1/25/04, p.D6)
1977 Apr 20, The US Supreme Court,
in Wooley v. Maynard, said car owners could refuse to display state
mottoes on license plates. The Court ruled that "Live Free or Die" may
be covered on NH license plates.
(AP, 4/20/07)
1978 Hugh Gallen, Democrat,
defeated Gov. Meldrim Thomson.
(SFC, 4/20/01, p.D5)
1980 Feb 26, Republican Ronald
Reagan won the New Hampshire primary over George H.W. Bush and Howard
Baker 49.8 to 22.8 to 12.9%. Democrat Jimmie Carter won over Ted
Kennedy, Jerry Brown and Birch Bayh 47.2 to 37.4 to 9.6%.
(SSFC, 1/25/04,
p.A19)(www.politicallibrary.org/TallState/1980rep.html)
1981 Sep 13, William Loeb
(b.1905), publisher of Manchester Union Leader, NH, died at 75.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Loeb)
1984 Feb 28, New Hampshire held
its presidential primary. Ronald Reagan won with 86.1% of the total
vote. Gary Hart won the Democratic tally over Walter Mondale and John
Glenn.
(www.politicallibrary.org/TallState/1984rep.html)(SSFC, 1/25/04, p.A19)
1985 Dec 7, Retired Supreme Court
Justice Potter Stewart died in Hanover, N.H., at age 70.
(AP, 12/7/97)
1988 Jan 28, Public Service of New
Hampshire filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This was the first American
utility since the Depression to go bankrupt, mostly because of
unexpected costs of a nuclear plant.
(www.nu.com/aboutnu/psnh.asp)(Econ, 6/2/07, SR p.22)
1988 Feb 16, Vice President George
Bush and Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis scored big victories in
the New Hampshire Republican and Democratic presidential primaries.
Bush won the New Hampshire primary over Bob Dole, Jack Kemp, Pete du
Pont and Pat Robertson 37.7 to 28.5 to 12.8 to 10.1 to 9.4%. Dukakis
won over Dick Gephardt and Paul Simon 35.9 to 19.9 to 17.2%.
(AP, 2/16/98)(SSFC, 1/25/04, p.A19)
1988 Nov 17, President-elect Bush
announced his choice of New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu to be White
House chief of staff. Sununu had earlier said "In Iowa they grow corn,
in New Hampshire, we grow presidents."
(AP, 11/17/98)(SSFC, 1/25/04, p.D1)
1990 Mar 1, The controversial
Seabrook, N.H. nuclear power plant won federal permission to go on line
after two decades of protests and legal struggles.
(AP, 3/1/00)
1990 May 1, In Hampton, NH,
William Flynn (16) and a friend shot and killed Gregory Smart (b.1965),
the husband of Pamela Smart (23) with whom Flynn was having an affair.
Flynn was sentenced 28 years to life. Smart had enlisted Flynn to kill
her husband and was sentenced to life in prison.
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7090228)
1991 Mar 22, High school
instructor Pamela Smart, accused of manipulating her student-lover into
killing her husband, was convicted in Exeter, New Hampshire, of
murder-conspiracy.
(AP, 3/22/01)
1992 Feb 18, Republican Pres.
George H.W. Bush won the New Hampshire primary over Pat Buchanon, 58.6
to 41.4%. Democrat Paul Tsongas won over Bill Clinton, Bob Kerrey, Tom
Harkin and Jerry Brown 38 to 28.3 to 12.7 to 11.6 to 9.3%.
(SFEM,11/2/97, p.12)(AP, 2/18/02)(SSFC, 1/25/04,
p.A19)
1994 Robert H. Bates (1911-2007,
mountaineer and former teacher at New Hampshire’s Phillips Exeter
Academy (1939-1976), authored his autobiography “The Love of Mountains
Is Best.”
(WSJ, 9/29/07, p.A6)
1994 In Hudson a raid on an
armored car left 2 men dead. Five men were caught after an 18 month
search and in 1997 were convicted of 55 crimes in 4 states.
(SFC,12/23/97, p.A3)
1996 Feb 20, Republican Pat
Buchanon won the New Hampshire primary over Bob Dole, Lamar Alexander
and Steve Forbes 30.8 to 29.7 to 25.6 to 13.8%.
(AP, 2/20/01)(SSFC, 1/25/04, p.A19)
1997 Jun 30, In Canterbury Center
a 21 year-old man was beaten to death with a baseball bat in a fight
that sent 8 to the hospital.
(SFC,11/3/97, p.A3)
1997 Aug 19, A New Hampshire man,
Carl Drega (67) of Colebrook, killed 2 state troopers, Scott Philips
(32) and Les Lord (45), a local judge and a newspaper editor in
Colebrook. The shooting spree ended with his death near the Canadian
border in Vermont. The issue was believed to be a grudge over a tax
case.
(WSJ, 8/20/97, p.A1)(SFC,11/3/97, p.A3)(AP,
8/19/98)(SFEC, 10/18/98, Par p.9)
1997 Aug 24, Officer Jeremy
Charron, 24, was shot and killed Gordon Perry (22) and Kevin Paul (18)
in Epsom, New Hampshire. Both captured suspects were on probation. Paul
later received a 16- to 50-year prison sentence. Perry was sentenced to
life in prison without parole.
(SFC, 8/25/97,
p.A8)(www.odmp.org/officer/14959-patrolman-jeremy-t.-charron)
1997 Aug 31, In Manchester a young
father was shot and killed at a traffic light by a 29-year-old man who
had argued with him earlier.
(SFC,11/3/97, p.A3)
1997 Sep 13, In Salem 3 young men
on crystal Methedrine beat up and fatally stabbed 2 teenage girls.
(SFC,11/3/97, p.A3)
1997 The state high court ruled
that school funding relied unfairly on local property taxes.
(SFC, 10/16/99, p.A6)
1998 Jan 8-9, The US Northeast and
Canada were hit with a severe ice storm and at least 16 people were
reported killed. Millions of people were left without power in upper
New York, Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire.
(SFC, 1/9/98, p.A3)(SFC, 1/10/98, p.A8)
1998 Apr 5, Ray Piecuch, a cowboy
poet from New Hampshire, completed his yearlong 3,500 mile ride across
country on his horse, Bo, with a champagne celebration at Baker Beach.
(SFC, 4/6/98, p.A26)
1998 Sep 18-20, In Lincoln, the
23rd annual New Hampshire Highland Games and Scottish Heritage Week
occurred.
(WSJ, 9/28/98, p.A26)
1999 Apr 29, The Legislature
approved and the Gov. signed a statewide property tax to support a $825
million school spending plan.
(SFC, 4/29/99, p.A3)
1999 Jun 7, Gov. Jeanne Shaheen
signed a bill honoring Martin Luther King. New Hampshire was the last
state to put King's name on the January holiday celebrated as Civil
Rights Day.
(SFC, 6/8/99, p.A3)
1999 Oct 15, A new property tax to
fund schools was ruled unconstitutional.
(SFC, 10/16/99, p.A6)
1999 Oct 15, In Nashua Liam Youens
shot and killed Amy Boyer and then himself. He had tracked Boyer using
Internet sources.
(SFC, 11/30/99, p.A12)
2000 Feb 1, Republican John McCain
won the New Hampshire primary over George W. Bush, Steve Forbes and
Alan Keyes 49.5 to 31 to 12.9 to 6.5%. Democrat Al Gore won over Bill
Bradley 52.1 to 47.8%.
(SFC, 2/2/00, p.A1,19)(AP, 2/1/01)(SSFC, 1/25/04,
p.A19)
2000 May 18, The state senate
approved a bill to ban capital punishment. The last state execution was
in 1939. Gov. Jeanne Shaheen vetoed the bill the next day.
(SFC, 5/19/00, p.A3)
2000 Jul 12, The New Hampshire
House of Representatives voted to impeach Chief Justice David A. Brock
for perpetuating misconduct and a culture of secrecy. It the first such
action against an official in the state since 1790. He was later
acquitted in a state Senate trial.
(SFC, 7/13/00, p.A3)(AP, 7/12/01)
2000 Oct 10, The New Hampshire
Senate found Chief Justice David Brock not guilty on 4 charges and sent
him, chastened but unbowed, back to his bench.
(SFC, 10/11/00, p.A3)
2000 Nov 7, George Bush won New
Hampshire by 1.27%.
(Econ, 7/3/04, p.27)
2001 Jan 8, Rookie Republican
legislator Tom Alciere resigned after posting a message on the
Internet: "There is nothing wrong with slaughtering a cop. Just throw
the carcass into the Dumpster with the rest of the garbage."
(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.D2)
2001 Jan 27, In New Hampshire 2
Dartmouth professors, Half and Susanne Zantop, were found slain. James
Parker 16) and Robert Tulloch (17), suspects in the murder, were
arrested in Indiana Feb 19. Parker pleaded guilty in 2001 and agreed to
testify against Tulloch. Parker pleaded guilty to being an accomplice
to second-degree murder and is serving a sentence of 25 years to life.
Tuloch pleaded guilty in 2002 to murder and conspiracy and is serving a
sentence of life without parole.
(SFC, 2/20/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/8/01, p.A7)(SFC,
4/2/02, p.A4)(AP, 1/27/06)
2002 Feb 15, The bishop of the
Diocese of Dorchester, NH, named 14 priests implicated in the sexual
abuse of children from 1963-1987.
(SFC, 2/16/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 5, Joyce and Pete
Cottrell of New Hampshire began to walk the trans-continental American
Discovery Trail. They left the Atlantic coast at Cape Henlopen, Del.,
and arrived at the Pacific Ocean at Point Reyes, Ca., Aug 19, 2003.
(SFC, 8/20/03, p.A2)
2002 Mar 29, The Trust for Public
Land purchased 171,500 acres from Int’l. Paper and sold 25,000 to the
Nature Conservancy. The rest was to be resold to Lyme Timber for
sustainable logging.
(SFC, 4/2/02, p.A4)
2002 Apr 4, Two teen-agers were
sentenced to long prison terms in the stabbing deaths of Dartmouth
College professors Half and Susanne Zantop. Robert Tulloch pleaded
guilty to murder and received the mandatory sentence of life without
parole; James Parker was sentenced to 25 years to life as an accomplice
to murder.
(AP, 4/4/03)
2002 Sep 2, In New Hampshire 7
people were killed when their small plane crashed near Swanzey.
(SFC, 9/3/02, p.A10)
2002 Nov 5, Chuck McGee, director
of the New Hampshire Republican Party, jammed Democratic phone banks on
election day as Rep. John Sununu beat Dem. Gov. Jeanne Shaheen. McGee
pleaded guilty in 2004. In 2007 an appeals judge reversed McGee’s
conviction.
(SFC, 7/29/04, p.A3)(WSJ, 3/22/07, p.A1)
2003 May 3, The New Hampshire
granite symbol called the "Old Man of the Mountain," 1,200 feet above
I-93 (65 miles north of Concord), collapsed overnight into rubble.
(SSFC, 5/4/03, p.A4)
2003 Jun 7, In a national first,
New Hampshire Episcopalians elected the Reverend V. Gene Robinson, an
openly gay man, as their next bishop.
(AP, 6/7/04)
2003 Jul 4, Manuel Gehring (44)
shot and killed his 2 children, Philip (11) and Sarah (14), following a
dispute with his wife in Concord, NH. He was later arrested in Gilroy,
Ca. He confessed to police that he shot and killed his 2 children in
New Hampshire and buried them in the Midwest. In 2005 authorities found
the bodies of the 2 children buried off I-80 in Ohio. Gehring committed
suicide in his jail cell on February 19, 2004 at the Merrimack County
Jail in Boscawen, New Hampshire.
(SFC, 8/1/03, p.A3)(SSFC, 12/4/05,
p.A22)(http://tinyurl.com/62dfka)
2003 Aug 5, US Episcopal leaders
approved New Hampshire bishop-elect Rev. Gene Robinson as the church's
first openly gay bishop.
(SFC, 8/6/03, p.A1)
2003 Nov 7, The New Hampshire
Supreme Court ruled that a lesbian affair did not constitute adultery
under state law.
(SFC, 11/8/03, p.A2)
2004 Feb 4, New Hampshire Gov.
Craig Benson (49) began serving on a jury in a child-assault case in
Brentwood.
(USAT, 2/4/04, p.13A)
2004 Mar 2, Residents of
Killington, Vermont, voted to join New Hampshire due to a dispute over
property taxes.
(ST, 3/2/04, p.A5)(AP, 3/2/04)
2004 Mar 7, An investiture
ceremony was held in Concord, N.H., for V. Gene Robinson, the Episcopal
Church's first openly gay bishop.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2004 Nov 2, John Lynch (D) was
elected governor of New Hampshire.
(SFC, 11/4/04, p.A18)
2005 Jun 23, In Kelo vs. London a
divided US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that local governments may seize
people's homes and businesses against their will for private
development. In 2006 a group petitioned for signatures in Weare, New
Hampshire, to seize the home of Justice David Souter in order to build
an inn called the Lost Liberty Hotel. In 2009 Jeff Benedict authored
“Little Pink House,” the story of Susette Kelo’s battle in New London,
Connecticut, against eminent domain.
(AP, 6/23/05)(WSJ, 6/24/05, p.A1)(Econ, 8/20/05,
p.21)(SSFC, 1/22/06, p.A6)(WSJ, 1/26/08, p.A13)
2006 Jan 18, The US Supreme Court
ruled unanimously that a lower court was wrong to strike down New
Hampshire abortion restrictions, but steered clear of a major ruling on
the volatile issue.
(AP, 1/18/06)
2006 May 14, Maine's governor
declared a state of emergency in the southern most county, and the
governors of Massachusetts and New Hampshire also declared states of
emergency as a 3-day deluge turned streets into rivers across New
England, flooding homes up to their door knobs, forcing dozens of
schools to close because the buses couldn't get through, and
threatening dams and communities as rivers rise.
(AP, 5/15/06)
2006 Jun, A fax informed Donald
Hall (77), former poet laureate of New Hampshire, that he would be the
next poet laureate of the US.
(AP, 6/14/06)
2006 Oct 29, In the northeast US
thousands of homes and businesses had no electricity as a storm system
blasted the region with winds gusting to more than 50 mph, knocking
over trees and a construction crane. The storm was blamed for at least
two deaths.
(AP, 10/29/06)
2007 Mar 14, John Sununu, US
senator from New Hampshire, became the 1st Republican to say that
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should resign over the firing of 8 US
attorneys.
(Econ, 3/17/07, p.31)
2007 May 31, New Hampshire Gov.
John Lynch signed a bill allowing civil unions for gays couples
effective next year.
(AP, 5/31/07)
2007 Jul 2, Michael Woodbury (31),
released May 4 from the Maine State Prison after serving five years for
robbery and theft, killed three men during a botched robbery in Conway,
NH. In August he pleaded guilty and was given a mandatory sentence of
life in prison without parole.
(AP, 8/17/07)
2007 Oct 4, US marshals posing as
supporters arrested convicted tax-evaders Ed and Elaine Brown at their
rural, fortress-like home in New Hampshire. They were convicted in
January of scheming to avoid federal income taxes by hiding $1.9
million of income between 1996 and 2003 and were sentenced in April.
(AP, 10/5/07)
2007 Nov 21, New Hampshire set its
presidential primary to Jan 8, claiming its traditional spot as the
nation’s first primary.
(SFC, 11/22/07, p.A4)
2007 Nov 30, Leeland Eisenberg
(46) of Somersworth, NH, carrying what appeared to be a bomb, took
hostages at a Clinton campaign office in Rochester, NH, before
surrendering after a 6-hour standoff. Eisenberg, one of over 500
recipients of payments in a 2003 settlement over clergy sexual abuse,
said he wanted help getting psychiatric care.
(WSJ, 12/1/07, p.A1)(SSFC, 12/2/07, p.A21)
2008 Jan 1, In New Hampshire
Dozens of gay and lesbian couples entered into civil unions in the
early moments of New Year's Day as a new state law legalized the
partnerships.
(AP, 1/1/08)
2008 Jan 8, In New Hampshire Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton (39%) led Barack Obama (36%) and John McCain
(37%) led Mit Romney (32%), reviving their sagging campaigns.
(AP, 1/9/08)
2008 Jul 18, New Hampshire decided
to accept an offer from Venezuela of free heating oil for the state’s
poor.
(WSJ, 7/19/08, p.A2)
2008 Dec 13, In New Hampshire
370,000 customers still had no electricity following a huge ice storm.
Utility crews worked through a night of hand-numbing cold in the
Northeast but they still had a long way to go before restoring power to
all of the more than 1 million homes and businesses blacked out by the
storm. Most of the outages were in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine
and New York.
(AP, 12/13/08)
2009 Apr 12, In New Hampshire a
massive fire destroyed or damaged about 40 summer cottages at the
146-year-old Alton Bay Christian Conference Center.
(AP, 4/13/09)
2009 Jun 3, New Hampshire became
the sixth state to legalize gay marriage in a move that reflects the
state's changing demographics from reliably Republican and conservative
to younger and more liberal.
(AP, 6/3/09)
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