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1Jun1960New Zealand's first official TV broadcast
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2Jun1917New Zealand steamer captured by the Wolf
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2Jun1970Motor racing driver Bruce McLaren dies
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3Jun1869University of Otago founded
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3Jun1936Colin 'Pinetree' Meads born
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3Jun1941First women enter police training
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4Jun1943Rail tragedy at Hyde
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5Jun1847Auckland Savings Bank opens for business
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5Jun1866Te Kooti exiled to Chathams
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6Jun1823Wesleyan mission established
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6Jun1996New Zealand’s first wind farm becomes operational
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7Jun1917Battle of Messines
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7Jun1921First Rotary club in New Zealand founded
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7Jun1940Fighter ace Edgar ‘Cobber’ Kain killed
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7Jun1976McDonald's arrives in New Zealand
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8Jun1987New Zealand goes nuclear-free
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9Jun1868Beginning of Tītokowaru's war
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9Jun1909Public Trust Office building opens
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10Jun1886Eruption of Mt Tarawera
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10Jun1889First kindergartens
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10Jun1906Death of Richard Seddon
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11Jun1901Cornwall Park gifted to Auckland
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12Jun1902New Zealand flag confirmed
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12Jun1942First US troops arrive in Auckland Harbour
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13Jun1866Murder on the Maungatapu track
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14Jun1984Muldoon calls snap election
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15Jun1935Lovelock wins ‘Mile of the Century’
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15Jun1959Chinese gooseberry becomes kiwifruit
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16Jun1923Baby-farmer Daniel Cooper hanged
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16Jun1971Polynesian Panther Party founded
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17Jun1843The Wairau incident
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18Jun1932Long-distance walker Esther James reaches Bluff
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19Jun1869First game of rugby played in NZ?
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19Jun1940Niagara mined off Northland coast
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20Jun1943US Navy tragedy at Paekākāriki
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20Jun1987All Blacks win the first World Cup
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21Jun1864Battle of Te Ranga
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21Jun1964The Beatles land in New Zealand
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22Jun1954Parker-Hulme murder in Christchurch
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23Jun1961Antarctic Treaty comes into force
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23Jun1973World Court condemns French nuclear tests
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24Jun1905New Zealand Truth hits the news stands
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25Jun1860Death of the first Māori King
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25Jun2003Parliament votes for prostitution reform
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26Jun1918Wimmera sunk by German mine
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26Jun1987A.J. Hackett bungy jumps from Eiffel Tower
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27Jun1936Māui Pōmare memorial unveiled
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27Jun1975Mark Williams hits no. 1
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28Jun1881First registered female pharmacist
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28Jun1914Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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28Jun1919New Zealand Prime Minister signs Treaty of Versailles
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28Jun1920Alexander Turnbull Library opens
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28Jun1973HMNZS Otago sails for Mururoa test zone
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29Jun1862Wreck of the White Swan
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29Jun1990First female Anglican diocesan bishop appointed
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30Jun1939First issue of New Zealand Listener published