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1Feb1842New Zealand Company settlers arrive in Nelson
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1Feb1922Correspondence School founded
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1Feb1981Trevor Chappell bowls underarm
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2Feb1939Welfare plan gets baptism of fire
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2Feb1974'The greatest middle distance race of all time'
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3Feb1868Killer storm sweeps the country
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3Feb1931Deadly Hawke's Bay earthquake
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4Feb1975First woman swims Cook Strait
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4Feb1985USS Buchanan refused entry to New Zealand
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5Feb1867Opening of railway from Invercargill to Bluff
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5Feb1911New Zealand’s first controlled powered flight
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5Feb1994First Big Day Out in New Zealand
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6Feb1840Treaty of Waitangi signed
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6Feb1871First public girls' secondary school
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6Feb1947Liner Wanganella refloated in Wellington Harbour
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7Feb1863New Zealand’s worst shipwreck
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7Feb1963Fifteen die in Northland bus tragedy
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8Feb1915Turkish ambush kills New Zealand seaman
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8Feb1931First fatal accident on a scheduled air service in New Zealand
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8Feb1972Women cricketers triumph
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9Feb1770Cook completes circumnavigation of North Island
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9Feb1900Wanganui Opera House opened
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10Feb1967End of free school milk
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11Feb1864Charles Heaphy earns Victoria Cross
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12Feb1909SS Penguin wrecked in Cook Strait
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13Feb1869Killings at Pukearuhe
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13Feb1974New Zealand soldier's brave sacrifice
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13Feb1983Lance Cairns hits six sixes at Melbourne Cricket Ground
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14Feb1915Māori soldiers sail to war
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14Feb1998Te Papa museum opens
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15Feb1882First frozen meat shipment leaves New Zealand
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15Feb1978New Zealand beats England in a cricket test for the first time
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16Feb1770Cook sights Banks 'Island'
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16Feb1986Sinking of the Mikhail Lermontov
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17Feb1873'The Russians are coming!'
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18Feb1957New Zealand's last execution
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18Feb1982'Queen of Crime' Ngaio Marsh dies
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19Feb1938Kōpuawhara flood kills 21
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20Feb1914Scotland crosses Southland in pioneering flight
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20Feb1954Yvette Williams sets world long jump record
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21Feb1879Kaitangata mining disaster
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22Feb1902Kelburn cable car opens
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22Feb2011Christchurch earthquake kills 185
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23Feb1904First step in creation of Fiordland National Park
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23Feb1940100,000 Aucklanders welcome home HMS Achilles
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24Feb1902Battle of Langverwacht Hill
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24Feb1912TSS Earnslaw launched on Lake Wakatipu
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25Feb194349 killed in Featherston POW incident
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26Feb1844'Pistols at dawn': deadly duel in Wellington
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27Feb1951Troops deployed in waterfront dispute
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28Feb1945Kiwi soldier faces firing squad
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29Feb1924Intelligence tests arrive in New Zealand schools
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29Feb1964Opening of first road to Maungapōhatu
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29Feb2004The return of the king wins 11 Oscars