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1Oct1923First Chatham Cup football final
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1Oct1962Government watchdog appointed
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1Oct1986Goods and Services Tax Act introduced
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2Oct1941New Zealand pilot saves Scottish village
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2Oct1986'Slice of Heaven' hits no. 1
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3Oct1888New Zealand Natives team plays first game in UK
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4Oct1957Morris Yock trademarks the jandal
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5Oct1866Maungatapu murderers hanged in Nelson
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5Oct2011Shipwrecked Rena spills oil into Bay of Plenty
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6Oct1769Young Nick sights land
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7Oct1917German 'Sea Devil' imprisoned in New Zealand
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8Oct1941Stan Graham's killing spree on West Coast
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9Oct1967First day of ten o'clock closing
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10Oct1975Waitangi Tribunal created
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11Oct1861First Cobb & Co. coach service runs to Otago goldfields
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12Oct1917New Zealand's ‘blackest day’ at Passchendaele
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12Oct1918Niagara's arrival blamed for flu pandemic
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12Oct1996New Zealanders go to the polls in first MMP election
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13Oct1975Whina Cooper leads land march to Parliament
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14Oct1892Suzanne Aubert appointed Mother Superior
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14Oct1979'Mr Asia' found murdered
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14Oct2010Silver Ferns beat Diamonds in Commonwealth Games thriller
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15Oct1877Former Governor Grey becomes Premier
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15Oct1942New Zealand coastwatchers executed by the Japanese
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15Oct2007'Anti-terror' raids in Urewera
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16Oct1914Main Body of NZEF sails to war
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16Oct1936Jean Batten reaches Auckland after epic solo flight
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17Oct1877Chief Justice declares treaty 'worthless' and a 'simple nullity'
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18Oct1924First trans-global radio transmission to London
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18Oct1954New Zealand Opera Group's first opening night
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19Oct1966New Zealand’s day with LBJ
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19Oct1992Fred Hollows Foundation launched in New Zealand
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20Oct1972Equal Pay Act passed into law
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20Oct1987'Black Tuesday' share-market crash
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21Oct1964Peter Snell wins second gold in Tokyo
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21Oct2008Stolen medals returned to National Army Museum
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22Oct1934National Conference of Working Women Report approved
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22Oct1967Denny Hulme wins Formula One title
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22Oct1972Death of poet James K. Baxter
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23Oct1869New Zealand ensign proclaimed
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23Oct1915New Zealand nurses lost in Marquette sinking
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23Oct1948Mt Ruapehu air crash kills 13
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23Oct2011All Blacks win their second Rugby World Cup
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24Oct1913Violence flares on Wellington wharves
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25Oct1949Foundation of IHC
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25Oct1971End of the line for steam railways
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26Oct1942Women Jurors Act allows women to sit on juries
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27Oct1943First opposed New Zealand landing since Gallipoli
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28Oct1835He Whakaputanga signed by northern chiefs
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28Oct1890First Labour Day celebrations
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29Oct1894SS Wairarapa wrecked on Great Barrier Island
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29Oct1919Women can stand for Parliament
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29Oct1995Forgotten silver film hoax screened
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30Oct1865Native Land Court created
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30Oct1918Massive prohibition petition presented to Parliament
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31Oct1917Capture of Beersheba
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31Oct1985Keri Hulme wins Booker Prize
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31Oct2015All Blacks win third Rugby World Cup