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1938, Social Security Act passed

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1960

NZ's first official TV broadcast
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1917

NZ steamer captured by the Wolf
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1970

Motor racing driver Bruce McLaren killed
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1936

Colin 'Pinetree' Meads born
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1943

Rail tragedy at Hyde
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1866

Te Kooti deported to Chathams
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1823

Wesleyan mission established
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1917

The Battle of Messines
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1940

Fighter ace Edgar ‘Cobber’ Kain killed
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1976

McDonald's arrives in NZ
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1987

New Zealand goes nuclear-free
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1868

Tītokowaru's war begins
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1886

Eruption of Mt Tarawera
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1906

Death of Richard Seddon
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1901

Cornwall Park gifted to Auckland
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1942

First US troops arrive in Auckland
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1866

Murder on the Maungatapu track
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1984

Muldoon calls snap election
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1935

Lovelock wins ‘Mile of the century’
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1959

Chinese gooseberry becomes kiwifruit
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1923

Baby-farmer Daniel Cooper hanged
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1843

The Wairau incident
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1895

Minnie Dean goes on trial
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1940

Niagara sunk by German mines off Northland
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1943

US Navy tragedy at Paekākāriki
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1987

All Blacks win the first World Cup
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1964

The Beatles land in NZ
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1954

Parker-Hulme murder in Christchurch
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1973

World Court condemns French nuclear tests
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1905

New Zealand Truth hits the news stands
25

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1860

Death of the first Māori King
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1918

Wimmera sunk by German mine
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1975

Mark Williams hits no. 1
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1914

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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1973

HMNZS Otago sails for Mururoa test zone
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1990

World's first female diocesan Anglican bishop appointed
30

Jun

1939

First issue of New Zealand Listener published

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