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New Zealand Post
Reference: 1995 Famous New Zealanders stamp issue
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'Brian Barratt-Boyes stamp', URL: /media/photo/brian-barratt-boyes-stamp, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 19-Jul-2014
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Events
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12 August 1816
New Zealand’s first school opens
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25 December 1894
First ascent of Mt Cook
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29 February 1924
Intelligence tests arrive in New Zealand schools
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11 November 1978
Andy Haden dives to save rugby test
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9 March 1890
Sutherland Falls climbed
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1 December 1898
First movie shot in NZ
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25 August 1920
First flight across Cook Strait
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16 August 2008
Evers-Swindell twins defend Olympic rowing title at Beijing
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7 August 1997
Beatrice Faumuina wins athletics world championship gold
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12 August 1975
John Walker breaks world mile record
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2 September 1979
Ivan Mauger wins a record sixth world speedway title in Katowice, Poland
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2 September 1972
New Zealand’s rowing eight win gold in Munich
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1 January 1859
NZ's first lighthouse, Pencarrow, lit for the first time
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4 January 1958
Hillary leads NZ party to South Pole
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18 December 1642
First contact between Māori and Europeans
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4 December 1966
Radio Hauraki rules the waves
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7 November 1970
Aoraki/Mt Cook face conquered by hippies
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18 October 1924
First trans-global radio transmission to London
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3 September 1958
First open-heart surgery in NZ
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29 June 1990
World's first female diocesan Anglican bishop appointed
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28 May 1920
Fingerprints help convict murderer
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4 February 1975
First woman to swim Cook Strait
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20 June 1987
All Blacks win the first World Cup
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7 August 1908
First train runs length of main trunk line
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16 September 1905
'Originals' kick off All Black tradition
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23 September 1887
Tongariro mountains gifted to Crown
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5 August 1988
Cartwright Report condemns cervical cancer treatment
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29 September 1862
NZ's first professional opera performance
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19 November 1992
Fred Hollows Foundation launched in NZ
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30 September 1962
Government watchdog appointed
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3 October 1888
NZ Natives team plays first game in UK
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18 July 1855
NZ's first postage stamps go on sale
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16 October 1936
Jean Batten conquers UK-NZ route
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20 September 1954
Mazengarb report released
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28 October 1890
First Labour Day celebrations
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25 December 1814
NZ's first Christian service?
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13 March 1956
NZ's first test cricket victory
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22 March 1994
Kiwis win Oscars for 'The piano'
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13 September 1933
NZ's first woman MP elected
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10 February 1967
End of free school milk
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1 December 1933
First flight from North Cape to Bluff
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15 February 1978
New Zealand beats England in a cricket test for the first time
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William Burn
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Robert Makgill
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Brian Barratt-Boyes
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Peter Buck
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Elizabeth McCombs
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The 1950s
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School of Radiant Living
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The 1918 influenza pandemic
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Korean War
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