On This Day In History

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1769-James Cook's ship, the Endeavour, sighted
New Zealand when it's cabin boy, Nicholas Young,
spotted land.

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1917-Felix Graf Von Luckner, a
German WW1 officer shown as
the "Sea Devil" for his exploits as
captain of the SMS Seeadler raider,
was imprisoned in New Zealand.

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1941-Dairy farmer Stanley Graham killed seven
people in Kowhitirangi on the South Island's West Coast.
One of New Zealand's longest manhunts ended when
Graham was shot on the evening of 20 October.
He died of his wounds the following day

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1822-Battle of Matakitaki Pa
During the Musket Wars, Napuhi
led by Hongi Hika, armed with
muskets from England, attached
Wakato Maori


1917-Passchendaele and New love
Brothers.
During the attacks at Passchendaele,
which began around this time, brothers
Charles, Edwin, and Leslie New love were
all killed in action.

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1997-US country music star
John Denver, 53, dies when
the aircraft he is flying crashes in
Monterey Bay, California.
He was the plane's only occupant.

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1889-The first public screening of a motion
picture in New Zealand.


1915-Niuean soldiers depart for WW1.


1975-Dame Whina Cooper led the
Maori land march to parliament, a
protest against the loss of Maori
land.

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1892-Suzane Aubert, a Catholic missionary was
appointed to a newly established order at
Hiruharama ( Jerusalem ) on the Wanganui
River.


1941-The hunt for an anarchist called
"The Graham" was ongoing, with law
enforcement deploying measures like
Lewis guns and considering a bulldozer
to break through the bush in the
Waikato.

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1877-When George Gray
became premier;


1942-Seventeen New Zealand Coast watchers
and five civilians were executed by Japanese
forces in the Gilbert Islands ( now Kiribati )


1978-The National Army Museum in
Waiouru opened.

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1913-The Great Strike began.

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1927-The first successful radio trans-global transmission
sent from a sheep station in
New Zealand.

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1714 - George I is crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland.

1803 - US Senate approves a treaty with France allowing the purchase of Louisiana.

1944 - US forces land in the Philippines to begin the reconquest of the islands.

1947 - The US House of Representatives’ Un-American Activities Committee begins investigating supposed Communist influence in Hollywood.

1955 - The Return of the King, the final volume of JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, is published.

1968 - Jacqueline Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis marry; US high jumper Dick Fosbury wins gold at the Mexico Olympics, and sets an Olympic record, using his then unique “Fosbury Flop” jumping style.

1972 - The Equal Pay Act passes into law. It aims to end the gender pay gap in the private sector, following the Government Service Equal Pay Act 1960 which addressed the pay gap for the public sector.

1973 - The Sydney Opera House is formally opened.

1987 - Billions of dollars are wiped off the value of New Zealand shares in the weeks following October 20, as the shockwaves of a sharp drop in New York's stockmarket ripple around the world.