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1923

First Chatham Cup football final
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1986

Goods and Service Tax Act comes into force
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1941

NZ pilot saves Scottish village
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1986

'Slice of Heaven' hits No. 1
3

Oct

1888

NZ Natives team plays first game in UK
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1957

Morris Yock trademarks the jandal
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1866

Maungatapu murderers hanged in Nelson
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1769

Young Nick sights land
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1917

German 'Sea Devil' imprisoned in NZ
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1941

Stan Graham runs amok on West Coast
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1967

The end of the 'six o'clock swill'
10

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1975

Waitangi Tribunal created
11

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1861

First Cobb & Co. coach service runs to Otago goldfields
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1917

NZ's ‘blackest day’ at Passchendaele
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1918

Niagara's arrival blamed for flu pandemic
13

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1975

Whina Cooper leads land march to Parliament
14

Oct

1979

'Mr Asia' found murdered
15

Oct

1877

Former Governor Grey becomes Premier
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Oct

1942

NZ coastwatchers executed by the Japanese
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Oct

2007

'Anti-terror' raids in Urewera
16

Oct

1914

Main Body of NZEF sails to war
16

Oct

1936

Jean Batten conquers UK-NZ route
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

NZ Opera Group's first opening night
19

Oct

1966

New Zealand’s day with LBJ
20

Oct

1941

Fugitive Stan Graham shot by police
21

Oct

1964

Peter Snell wins second gold in Tokyo
22

Oct

1972

Death of poet James K. Baxter
23

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1915

Ten NZ nurses lost in Marquette sinking
23

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1948

Mt Ruapehu air crash kills 13
24

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1913

Violence flares on Wellington wharves
25

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1949

Foundation of IHC
25

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1971

End of the line for steam railways
26

Oct

1942

Women Jurors Act allows women to sit on juries
27

Oct

1943

NZ troops make first opposed landing since Gallipoli
28

Oct

1890

First Labour Day celebrations
29

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1894

SS Wairarapa wrecked on Great Barrier Island
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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

1985

Keri Hulme’s Bone people wins Booker Prize

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