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1 Oct 1923
First Chatham Cup football final
1 Oct 1962
Government watchdog appointed
1 Oct 1986
Goods and Services Tax Act introduced
2 Oct 1941
New Zealand pilot saves Scottish village
2 Oct 1986
'Slice of Heaven' hits no. 1
3 Oct 1888
New Zealand Natives team plays first game in UK
4 Oct 1957
Morris Yock trademarks the jandal
5 Oct 1866
Maungatapu murderers hanged in Nelson
5 Oct 2011
Shipwrecked
Rena
spills oil into Bay of Plenty
6 Oct 1769
Young Nick sights land
7 Oct 1917
German 'Sea Devil' imprisoned in New Zealand
8 Oct 1941
Stan Graham's killing spree on West Coast
9 Oct 1967
First day of ten o'clock closing
10 Oct 1975
Waitangi Tribunal created
11 Oct 1861
First Cobb & Co. coach service runs to Otago goldfields
12 Oct 1917
New Zealand's ‘blackest day’ at Passchendaele
12 Oct 1918
Niagara
's arrival blamed for flu pandemic
12 Oct 1996
New Zealanders go to the polls in first MMP election
13 Oct 1975
Whina Cooper leads land march to Parliament
14 Oct 1892
Suzanne Aubert appointed Mother Superior
14 Oct 1979
'Mr Asia' found murdered
14 Oct 2010
Silver Ferns beat Diamonds in Commonwealth Games thriller
15 Oct 1877
Former Governor Grey becomes Premier
15 Oct 1942
New Zealand coastwatchers executed by the Japanese
15 Oct 2007
'Anti-terror' raids in Urewera
16 Oct 1914
Main Body of NZEF sails to war
16 Oct 1936
Jean Batten reaches Auckland after epic solo flight
17 Oct 1877
Chief Justice declares treaty 'worthless' and a 'simple nullity'
18 Oct 1924
First trans-global radio transmission to London
18 Oct 1954
New Zealand Opera Group's first opening night
19 Oct 1966
New Zealand’s day with LBJ
19 Oct 1992
Fred Hollows Foundation launched in New Zealand
20 Oct 1972
Equal Pay Act passed into law
20 Oct 1987
'Black Tuesday' share-market crash
21 Oct 1964
Peter Snell wins second gold in Tokyo
21 Oct 2008
Stolen medals returned to National Army Museum
22 Oct 1934
National Conference of Working Women Report approved
22 Oct 1967
Denny Hulme wins Formula One title
22 Oct 1972
Death of poet James K. Baxter
23 Oct 1869
New Zealand ensign proclaimed
23 Oct 1915
New Zealand nurses lost in
Marquette
sinking
23 Oct 1948
Mt Ruapehu air crash kills 13
23 Oct 2011
All Blacks win their second Rugby World Cup
24 Oct 1913
Violence flares on Wellington wharves
25 Oct 1949
Foundation of IHC
25 Oct 1971
End of the line for steam railways
26 Oct 1942
Women Jurors Act allows women to sit on juries
27 Oct 1943
First opposed New Zealand landing since Gallipoli
28 Oct 1835
He Whakaputanga signed by northern chiefs
28 Oct 1890
First Labour Day celebrations
29 Oct 1894
SS
Wairarapa
wrecked on Great Barrier Island
29 Oct 1919
Women can stand for Parliament
29 Oct 1995
Forgotten silver film hoax screened
30 Oct 1865
Native Land Court created
30 Oct 1918
Massive prohibition petition presented to Parliament
31 Oct 1917
Capture of Beersheba
31 Oct 1985
Keri Hulme wins Booker Prize
31 Oct 2015
All Blacks win third Rugby World Cup
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