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1911, Bookies take last bets on New Zealand racecourses
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27 October
1943
First opposed New Zealand landing since Gallipoli
New Zealanders of 8 Brigade, 3 New Zealand Division, helped their American allies clear Mono Island in the Solomons of its Japanese defenders. Forty lost their lives in weeks of fierce fighting.
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This Week in History
30 January
1911
Bookies take last bets on New Zealand racecourses
31 January
1921
New Zealand's first regular airmail service begins
1 February
1842
New Zealand Company settlers arrive in Nelson
2 February
1939
Welfare plan gets baptism of fire
3 February
1868
Killer storm sweeps the country
4 February
1975
First woman swims Cook Strait
5 February
1867
Opening of railway from Invercargill to Bluff