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Events on this Day – 14 January

Bob Fitzsimmons
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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Trilobite limestone found by Malcolm Simpson
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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