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1 Jun 1960
New Zealand's first official TV broadcast
2 Jun 1917
New Zealand steamer captured by the
Wolf
2 Jun 1970
Motor racing driver Bruce McLaren dies
3 Jun 1869
University of Otago founded
3 Jun 1936
Colin 'Pinetree' Meads born
3 Jun 1941
First women enter police training
4 Jun 1943
Rail tragedy at Hyde
5 Jun 1847
Auckland Savings Bank opens for business
5 Jun 1866
Te Kooti exiled to Chathams
6 Jun 1823
Wesleyan mission established
6 Jun 1996
New Zealand’s first wind farm becomes operational
7 Jun 1917
Battle of Messines
7 Jun 1921
First Rotary club in New Zealand founded
7 Jun 1940
Fighter ace Edgar ‘Cobber’ Kain killed
7 Jun 1976
McDonald's arrives in New Zealand
8 Jun 1987
New Zealand goes nuclear-free
9 Jun 1868
Beginning of Tītokowaru's war
9 Jun 1909
Public Trust Office building opens
10 Jun 1886
Eruption of Mt Tarawera
10 Jun 1889
First kindergartens
10 Jun 1906
Death of Richard Seddon
11 Jun 1901
Cornwall Park gifted to Auckland
12 Jun 1902
New Zealand flag confirmed
12 Jun 1942
First US troops arrive in Auckland Harbour
13 Jun 1866
Murder on the Maungatapu track
14 Jun 1984
Muldoon calls snap election
15 Jun 1935
Lovelock wins ‘Mile of the Century’
15 Jun 1959
Chinese gooseberry becomes kiwifruit
16 Jun 1923
Baby-farmer Daniel Cooper hanged
16 Jun 1971
Polynesian Panther Party founded
17 Jun 1843
The Wairau incident
18 Jun 1932
Long-distance walker Esther James reaches Bluff
19 Jun 1869
First game of rugby played in NZ?
19 Jun 1940
Niagara
mined off Northland coast
20 Jun 1943
US Navy tragedy at Paekākāriki
20 Jun 1987
All Blacks win the first World Cup
21 Jun 1864
Battle of Te Ranga
21 Jun 1964
The Beatles land in New Zealand
22 Jun 1954
Parker-Hulme murder in Christchurch
23 Jun 1961
Antarctic Treaty comes into force
23 Jun 1973
World Court condemns French nuclear tests
24 Jun 1905
New Zealand Truth
hits the news stands
25 Jun 1860
Death of the first Māori King
25 Jun 2003
Parliament votes for prostitution reform
26 Jun 1918
Wimmera
sunk by German mine
26 Jun 1987
A.J. Hackett bungy jumps from Eiffel Tower
27 Jun 1936
Māui Pōmare memorial unveiled
27 Jun 1975
Mark Williams hits no. 1
28 Jun 1881
First registered female pharmacist
28 Jun 1914
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
28 Jun 1919
New Zealand Prime Minister signs Treaty of Versailles
28 Jun 1920
Alexander Turnbull Library opens
28 Jun 1973
HMNZS
Otago
sails for Mururoa test zone
29 Jun 1862
Wreck of the
White Swan
29 Jun 1990
First female Anglican diocesan bishop appointed
30 Jun 1939
First issue of
New Zealand Listener
published
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