RELATED TO THE AQUITANIA IN WELLINGTON HARBOUR
Events
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9 June 1909
Public Trust Office building opens
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16 October 1914
Main Body of NZEF sails to war
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5 November 1913
Battle of Featherston Street
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2 May 1868
First shipment of salmon and trout ova arrives
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2 February 1939
Welfare plan gets baptism of fire
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17 August 1942
Attack on the Nino Bixio
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20 May 1865
Loss of the City of Dunedin with all hands
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29 April 1881
131 perish in worst civilian shipwreck in NZ waters
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16 April 1912
News of Titanic sinking reaches NZ
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3 February 1868
Killer storm sweeps the country
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23 October 1915
Ten NZ nurses lost in Marquette sinking
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27 November 1940
Liner sunk by German raiders off East Cape
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27 August 1904
Foundation stone for Victoria’s first building laid
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17 July 1939
Death of Paddy the Wanderer
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15 August 1951
Troop ship Wahine wrecked en route to Korean War
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15 September 1976
Lyttelton–Wellington ferry service ends
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16 June 1923
Baby-farmer Daniel Cooper hanged
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26 July 1865
Parliament moves to Wellington
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24 August 1878
Wellington steam-tram service opened
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24 September 1905
Race killing in Haining St, Wellington
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11 August 1962
Picton ferry Aramoana enters service
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20 August 1940
Turakina sunk by German raider in Tasman
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3 April 1943
'Battle of Manners Street'
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2 May 1964
NZ's last electric tram trip
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22 May 1884
First NZ Rugby team in action
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22 January 1840
First European settlers arrive in Wellington
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23 January 1855
Massive earthquake hits Wellington region
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26 February 1844
'Pistols at dawn': deadly duel in Wellington
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15 February 1978
New Zealand beats England in a cricket test for the first time
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8 November 1939
NZ Centennial Exhibition opens
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