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1Sep1987New Zealander sentenced to death in Malaysia
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2Sep1960Golden day for Kiwi runners in Rome
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2Sep1972New Zealand’s rowing eight win gold in Munich
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2Sep1979Ivan Mauger wins a record sixth world speedway title in Katowice, Poland
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3Sep1939New Zealand declares war on Germany
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3Sep1958First open-heart surgery in NZ
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4Sep1863The wreck of the Delaware
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4Sep2010Fox Glacier plane crash
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4Sep2010Magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocks Canterbury
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5Sep1939PM declares NZ's support for Britain
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6Sep1948New Zealand citizenship established
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7Sep1868Von Tempsky killed at Te Ngutu-o-te-manu
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7Sep1909NZ’s heaviest ever gold nugget discovered
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7Sep1921Springboks play NZ Maoris for first time
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8Sep1954NZ signs Manila Pact
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9Sep1976Wanganui Computer legislation enacted
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10Sep1914Eruption on White Island kills 10 people
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10Sep1984Te Maori exhibition opens in New York
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11Sep1880Rail tragedy on the Rimutaka Incline
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11Sep1928First trans-Tasman flight
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12Sep1914Forty-three miners killed in explosion at Huntly
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12Sep1981'Flour-bomb test' ends Springbok tour
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13Sep1933NZ's first woman MP elected
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14Sep1938Social Security Act passed
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15Sep1969First steel produced from local ironsand
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15Sep1976Lyttelton–Wellington ferry service ends
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16Sep1905'Originals' kick off All Black tradition
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17Sep1941Death penalty abolished ... for the time being
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18Sep1937First state house opened in Miramar
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19Sep1893Women's suffrage day
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20Sep1954Mazengarb report released
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21Sep1834Rescue of Harriet survivors begins
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22Sep1906Domestic workers call for 68-hour week
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22Sep1931Coalition formed to combat Depression
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23Sep1887Tongariro mountains gifted to Crown
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24Sep1905Race killing in Haining St, Wellington
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24Sep1917Bere Ferrers rail accident
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25Sep1819NZ's first grapevines planted?
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26Sep1865Native Rights Act declares Māori British subjects
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26Sep1907Joseph Ward proclaims Dominion status
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27Sep1974William Sutch charged with spying
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28Sep1899NZ answers Empire's call to arms in South Africa
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29Sep1862NZ's first professional opera performance
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30Sep1878Great Flood hits South Island
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30Sep1962Government watchdog appointed