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1906, Domestic workers call for 68-hour week
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24 March
24 March
1770
Kidnapped Ngāti Kahu chief Ranginui dies on French ship
Ranginui was a Ngāti Kahu chief from Doubtless Bay who was kidnapped by the French explorer Jean François Marie de Surville.
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1894
'Aerial Queen' crashes in Hamilton
‘One of the most courageous feats ever performed in Waikato’ almost ended in tragedy when Leila Adair’s hot-air balloon burst several hundred feet above Hamilton East.
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1989
RainbowYOUTH formed
RainbowYOUTH was conceived at a Gay and Lesbian Conference held in Auckland on 24 March 1989
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This Week in History
18 September
1937
First state house opened in Miramar
19 September
1893
Women win the right to vote
20 September
1954
Mazengarb report released
21 September
1834
Rescue of
Harriet
survivors begins
22 September
1906
Domestic workers call for 68-hour week
23 September
1887
Tongariro mountains protected
24 September
1905
Racist killing in Wellington's Haining St