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1Sep1943Eleanor Roosevelt visits Auckland
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1Sep1987New Zealander sentenced to death in Malaysia
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2Sep1945Air Vice-Marshal Isitt accepts Japanese surrender
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2Sep1960Golden hour for Kiwi runners in Rome
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2Sep1972New Zealand’s rowing eight wins gold
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2Sep1975First New Zealand representative women’s football team wins Asian Cup
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2Sep1979Ivan Mauger wins sixth world speedway title
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3Sep1939New Zealand declares war on Germany
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3Sep1958First open-heart surgery in New Zealand
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4Sep1863The wreck of the Delaware
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4Sep20107.1 earthquake rocks Canterbury
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4Sep2010Fox Glacier plane crash
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5Sep1939Prime minister declares New Zealand’s support for Britain
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5Sep1990An Angel at My Table screens at Venice Film Festival
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6Sep1948New Zealand citizenship established
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7Sep1868Von Tempsky killed at Te Ngutu-o-te-manu
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7Sep1909New Zealand's heaviest gold nugget discovered
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7Sep1921Springboks play New Zealand Māori for first time
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8Sep1862First Albertland settlers arrive in Auckland
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8Sep1906New Zealand's first fatal car accident
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8Sep1954New Zealand signs Manila Pact
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8Sep2008Sophie Pascoe wins her first medal
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9Sep1976Wanganui Computer legislation enacted
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10Sep1914Eruption on Whakaari (White Island) kills 10 people
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10Sep1984Te Maori exhibition opens in New York
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11Sep1880Rail tragedy on the Remutaka incline
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11Sep1928First trans-Tasman flight touches down
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12Sep1914Forty-three miners killed in explosion at Huntly
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12Sep1981'Flour-bomb test' ends Springbok tour
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13Sep1933New Zealand's first woman MP elected
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14Sep1938Social Security Act passed
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14Sep1972Te taenga mai o te petihana reo Māori – Arrival of the Māori language petition
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15Sep1969First steel produced from local ironsand
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15Sep1976Lyttelton–Wellington ferry service ends
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16Sep1905'Originals' kick off All Black tradition
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17Sep1941Flogging and whipping abolished
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18Sep1937First state house opened in Miramar
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19Sep1893Women win the right to vote
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20Sep1954Mazengarb report released
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20Sep1999First New Zealand troops arrive in East Timor
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21Sep1834Rescue of Harriet survivors begins
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22Sep1906Domestic workers call for 68-hour week
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22Sep1931Coalition government formed to combat Depression
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23Sep1887Tongariro mountains protected
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24Sep1905Racist killing in Wellington's Haining St
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24Sep1917Bere Ferrers rail accident
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25Sep1819New Zealand's first grapevines planted?
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25Sep1951Māori Women's Welfare League established
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26Sep1865Native Rights Act declares Māori British subjects
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26Sep1907Joseph Ward proclaims dominion status
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27Sep1974William Sutch charged with spying
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27Sep2013Lorde releases Pure heroine in New Zealand and Australia
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28Sep1899New Zealand answers the empire's call to arms
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29Sep1862New Zealand's first professional opera performance
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29Sep1947Greymouth beer boycott provoked
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30Sep1878Great Flood hits South Island
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30Sep1972New Christchurch Town Hall opens