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1770, Kidnapped Ngāti Kahu chief Ranginui dies on French ship
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28 December
1929
'Black Saturday' in Samoa
New Zealand military police fired on Mau independence demonstrators in Apia, killing 11 Samoans, including the independence leader Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III.
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Kidnapped Ngāti Kahu chief Ranginui dies on French ship
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