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- 1960 Barry Crump's novel A good keen man published
- 1960 All-white All Blacks leave for South Africa
- 1960 NZ's first official TV broadcast
- 1960 Golden day for Kiwi runners in Rome
- 1960 'Kiwi Keith' begins 12-year reign as PM
- 1960 Bluff Island Harbour opened
- 1961 First Golden Shears competition
- 1961 First Golden Kiwi lottery draw
- 1962 Peter Snell breaks world mile record
- 1962 George Wilder escapes from prison
- 1962 Picton ferry Aramoana enters service
- 1962 Government watchdog appointed
- 1962 Wilkins wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1963 NZ medics start work in South Vietnam
- 1963 DC-3 crashes in Kaimai Range
- 1963 Pioneer aviator George Bolt dies
- 1963 Bassett Road machine-gun murders
- 1964 Opening of first road to Maungapōhatu
- 1964 NZ's last electric tram trip
- 1964 The Beatles land in NZ
- 1964 Peter Snell wins second gold in Tokyo
- 1964 NZ whalers harpoon their last victim
- 1965 TEAL becomes Air New Zealand
- 1965 NZ artillery opens fire in Vietnam
- 1965 Riots rock Mt Eden prison
- 1965 Cook Islands achieve self-government
- 1966 Death of Māori King Korokī
- 1966 Coronation of first Māori Queen
- 1966 New Zealand’s day with LBJ
- 1966 Radio Hauraki rules the waves
- 1967 19 killed in Strongman Mine explosion at Rūnanga
- 1967 End of free school milk
- 1967 Fred Ladd flies under Auckland Harbour Bridge
- 1967 Dave McKenzie wins the Boston Marathon
- 1967 NZ adopts decimal currency
- 1967 The end of the 'six o'clock swill'
- 1968 Sinking of the Wahine
- 1968 Three die in Īnangahua earthquake
- 1969 First 'Young Farmer of the Year' chosen
- 1969 First steel produced from local ironsand