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1988 Bastion Point land returned

The government announced that it had agreed to the Waitangi Tribunal’s recommendation that Takaparawhā (Bastion Point) on the southern shore of Auckland’s Waitematā Harbour be returned to local iwi Ngāti Whātua. Read more...

1978 Beatrice Tinsley made professor of astronomy at Yale

Tinsley became the first woman to be appointed as Professor of Astronomy at Yale University in the United States Read more...