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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
6 February
1840
Treaty of Waitangi signed
7 February
1963
Fifteen die in Northland bus tragedy
8 February
1915
Turkish ambush kills New Zealand seaman
9 February
1770
Cook completes circumnavigation of North Island
10 February
1967
End of free school milk
11 February
1864
Charles Heaphy earns Victoria Cross
12 February
1909
SS
Penguin
wrecked in Cook Strait