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27 January
27 January
1962
Peter Snell breaks world mile record
The 23-year-old Olympic 800-m champion hoped to run the first four-minute mile on New Zealand soil. In fact, he broke Australian Herb Elliott’s 3½-year-old world record by the smallest possible margin, 0.1 seconds.
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This Week in History
27 June
1936
Māui Pōmare memorial unveiled
28 June
1881
First registered female pharmacist
29 June
1862
Wreck of the
White Swan
30 June
1939
First issue of
New Zealand Listener
published
1 July
1988
Bastion Point land returned
2 July
1938
Electric trains come to Wellington
3 July
1963
DC-3 crashes in Kaimai Range