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All-white All Blacks leave for South Africa
1960
Barry Crump publishes
A good keen man
1960
Bluff Island Harbour opened
1960
'Kiwi Keith' begins 12-year tenure as prime minister
1960
New Zealand's first official TV broadcast
1960
Golden hour for Kiwi runners in Rome
1961
First Golden Shears competition
1961
Antarctic Treaty comes into force
1961
First Golden Kiwi draw
1962
Government watchdog appointed
1962
Maurice Wilkins wins Nobel Prize
1962
Picton ferry
Aramoana
enters service
1962
George Wilder escapes from prison
1962
Peter Snell breaks world mile record
1963
Fifteen die in Northland bus tragedy
1963
New Zealand medics start work in South Vietnam
1963
DC-3 crashes in Kaimai Range
1963
Pioneer aviator George Bolt dies
1963
Bassett Road machine-gun murders
1964
New Zealand whalers harpoon their last victim
1964
Peter Snell wins second gold in Tokyo
1964
New Zealand's last electric tram trip
1964
Opening of first road to Maungapōhatu
1964
The Beatles land in New Zealand
1965
TEAL becomes Air New Zealand
1965
New Zealand artillery opens fire in Vietnam
1965
Riots rock Mt Eden prison
1965
Cook Islands achieves self-government
1966
Radio Hauraki rules the waves
1966
New Zealand’s day with LBJ
1966
Coronation of first Māori Queen
1966
Death of Māori King Korokī
1966
Country calendar
goes to air
1967
Nineteen killed in Strongman mine explosion at Rūnanga
1967
End of free school milk
1967
Fred Ladd flies under Auckland Harbour Bridge
1967
Dave McKenzie wins the Boston Marathon
1967
New Zealand adopts decimal currency
1967
First day of ten o'clock closing
1967
Denny Hulme wins Formula One title
1968
Wahine
wrecked in Wellington Harbour
1968
Three die in Īnangahua earthquake
1969
First Young Farmer of the Year chosen
1969
First steel produced from local ironsand
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