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On December 30, 1828, about 400 mill girls walked out of the Dover, New Hampshire Cotton Factory enacting the first women's strike in the United States. The Dover mill girls were forced to give in when the mill owners immediately began advertising for replacement workers. |
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The highest wind speed recorded at ground level is at Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, on April 12, 1934. The winds were three times as fast as those in most hurricanes. |
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The USS Albacore was a prototype submarine built at the Portsmouth, New Hampshire Naval Shipyard and commissioned in 1953. At the time she was the fastest submarine ever designed. |
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