1. On January 10, 1859, the New Hampshire State Legislature approved a bill to establish the State Board of Agriculture, which aimed to promote and improve agriculture in the state through education and research.
2. The town of Conway, New Hampshire was incorporated on January 10, 1765, named after General Henry Seymour Conway, a British soldier and statesman.
3. On this day in 1901, the famous American preacher and abolitionist Frederick Douglass visited Keene, New Hampshire, where he gave a speech on the importance of education to black Americans.
4. In 1929, the New Hampshire State Library was dedicated on January 10, becoming the first state library in the United States to be fully funded and operated by state government.
5. On January 10, 1985, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that a strip search of a female student in a public school was unconstitutional, setting an important precedent for privacy rights in schools.
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