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1915, Turkish ambush kills New Zealand seaman
Feb
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10 July
10 July
1967
New Zealand adopts decimal currency
Pounds, shillings and pence were replaced by dollars and cents − 27 million new banknotes and 165 million new coins.
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1985
Rainbow Warrior
sunk by French secret agents
A crew member died when French secret agents mined the Greenpeace vessel
Rainbow Warrior
in Waitematā Harbour, Auckland.
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This Week in History
6 February
1840
Treaty of Waitangi signed
7 February
1963
Fifteen die in Northland bus tragedy
8 February
1915
Turkish ambush kills New Zealand seaman
9 February
1770
Cook completes circumnavigation of North Island
10 February
1967
End of free school milk
11 February
1864
Charles Heaphy earns Victoria Cross
12 February
1909
SS
Penguin
wrecked in Cook Strait