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Events on this Day – 1 July

1978

Tinsley became the first woman to be appointed as Professor of Astronomy at Yale University in the United States

1988

The government announced that it had agreed to the Waitangi Tribunal’s recommendation that Takaparawhā (Bastion Point) on the southern shore of Auckland’s Waitematā Harbour be returned to local iwi Ngāti Whātua.