1. In 1783, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the Treaty of Paris, officially ending the Revolutionary War and recognizing the independence of the United States.
2. In 1917, New Hampshire passed a law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, three years before Prohibition was enacted nationally.
3. The first American ascent of Mount Everest was accomplished on June 5, 1963 by a team that included New Hampshire native and renowned mountaineer Tom Hornbein.
4. On June 5, 1989, the New Hampshire state legislature voted to make the Woodburn Amendment to the state constitution, which established English as the official language of the state.
5. In 2012, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that the state's same-sex marriage law was constitutional, making it the ninth state in the US to legalize same-sex marriage.
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