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14 January
1891
Bob Fitzsimmons wins world middleweight boxing title
Fitzsimmons knocked out Jack Dempsey in New Orleans to become the second New Zealander to hold a world boxing title.
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1948
14-year-old finds New Zealand’s oldest fossils
In 1948, a 14-year-old Nelson schoolboy discovered the oldest fossils ever found in New Zealand.
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This Week in History
27 November
1849
Death of Te Rauparaha
28 November
1893
Women vote in first general election
29 November
1877
Education Act passed into law
30 November
1949
Election of first National government
1 December
1898
First movie shot in New Zealand
2 December
1917
'Six o'clock swill' begins
3 December
1863
Land confiscation law passed