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1 Nov 1898
Old-age Pensions Act becomes law
1 Nov 1944
Polish refugees land in New Zealand
2 Nov 1868
New Zealand becomes first country to adopt a standard time
2 Nov 1942
2 New Zealand Division leads breakthrough at El Alamein
3 Nov 1886
Manawatū rail link opened
3 Nov 1886
Birth of Anchor butter
3 Nov 1974
'Summer time' reintroduced on trial basis
4 Nov 1918
New Zealand Division liberates Le Quesnoy
4 Nov 1930
Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup
5 Nov 1881
Invasion of pacifist settlement at Parihaka
5 Nov 1913
Battle of Featherston Street
6 Nov 1908
Last spike completes North Island main trunk railway
7 Nov 1848
The
Acheron
arrives to survey New Zealand waters
7 Nov 1912
Public Service Act passed into law
7 Nov 1970
Last unclimbed face of Aoraki/Mt Cook conquered
8 Nov 1936
New Zealanders march into besieged Madrid
8 Nov 1939
New Zealand Centennial Exhibition opens
9 Nov 1769
Cook observes transit of Mercury
9 Nov 1920
White New Zealand policy introduced
10 Nov 1868
Te Kooti attacks Matawhero
10 Nov 1871
Telegraph Department cleared of 'hacking' charges
10 Nov 1880
Sutherland Falls 'discovered'
11 Nov 1918
Armistice Day
11 Nov 1942
Troopship
Awatea
goes down fighting
11 Nov 1978
Andy Haden dives to save rugby test
12 Nov 1912
Striker fatally wounded at Waihī
13 Nov 1896
Mount Tongariro erupts
13 Nov 1990
Thirteen shot dead at Aramoana
14 Nov 1973
DPB legislation enacted
15 Nov 1861
First issue of
Otago Daily Times
published
16 Nov 1840
New Zealand officially becomes British colony
16 Nov 1869
Hamiora Pere executed for treason
16 Nov 1916
First conscription ballot
17 Nov 1925
New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition opens
18 Nov 1874
Cospatrick
fire kills 470
18 Nov 1947
41 die in Ballantynes fire
19 Nov 2010
Pike River mine explosion kills 29
20 Nov 1841
Mass murder in the Bay of Islands
20 Nov 1937
Parachuting Santa crashes in Auckland
21 Nov 1863
British capture Rangiriri
22 Nov 1939
Freyberg given command of 2NZEF
23 Nov 1918
Influenza pandemic reaches peak mortality
23 Nov 1941
25 Battalion suffers heavy casualties at Point 175
23 Nov 1947
Civic funeral for 41 Ballantynes fire victims
23 Nov 1986
Pope John Paul II celebrates Mass in windy Wellington
24 Nov 1959
Fifteen die in mysterious shipwreck
25 Nov 1903
Bob Fitzsimmons wins third world boxing title
26 Nov 1960
'Kiwi Keith' begins 12-year tenure as prime minister
27 Nov 1849
Death of Te Rauparaha
27 Nov 1935
Labour wins power
27 Nov 1940
Liner sunk off East Cape
28 Nov 1893
Women vote in first general election
28 Nov 1953
New Zealand's first family planning clinic opens
28 Nov 1979
257 killed on Mt Erebus
28 Nov 2008
Air New Zealand A320 crashes in France
29 Nov 1877
Education Act passed into law
29 Nov 1893
First woman mayor in British Empire elected
29 Nov 1949
First female Māori MP elected
30 Nov 1949
Election of first National government
December