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Events on this Day – 24 March

1770

Ranginui was a Ngāti Kahu chief from Doubtless Bay who was kidnapped by the French explorer Jean François Marie de Surville.

1894

‘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.

1989

RainbowYOUTH was conceived at a Gay and Lesbian Conference held in Auckland on 24 March 1989