New Hampshire’s request to the Continental Congress on October 18, 1775, came 79 days before the January 5, 1776, constitution at Exeter, whose preamble cites a recommendation from that Congress. The same date holds a governor’s railroad-bill veto in 1887 and a 1940 state Supreme Court ruling that upheld the refusal to count nomination signatures obtained by dishonesty.
The 40-year term of Seabrook Station’s federal operating license was counted from October 17, 1986, the day the plant received a zero-power license. Two later federal actions moved the end to 2050. The same date in New Hampshire’s record holds a royal land grant, a militia brigade at Saratoga, a Yankees third baseman from Penacook and a police officer’s death in Manchester.
On July 4, 1826, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. While their deaths sparked supernatural interpretations, statistics reveal the event’s probability is less miraculous and more rooted in reality. Their legacies endure as symbols of American history and democratic discourse.
