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1900 — Drafted by native minister James Carroll and Apirana Ngata, the Maori Lands Administration
Act becomes law. It allows boards controlled by Maori to administer the sale and lease of Maori land.
1934 — Constable Thomas Heeps is shot twice near Otorohanga while attempting to return murder suspect Henare Hona to the station. He dies in Waikato Hospital the next day. Hona is later surrounded by police and shoots himself.
1935 — Mao Tsetung and his communist forces end their Long March at Yan’an, in Shaanxi, northwest China, one year after beginning their epic flight from Chiang Kaishek’s Kuomintang armies in the southeast.
1941 — Stanley Graham, who had killed seven people on the West Coast, is shot by a police officer, and dies in hospital the next day, aged 40.
1944 — At the end of its participation in the Pacific
conflict, 3 New Zealand Division is disbanded.
1945 — Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon warn the
United States that the creation of a Jewish state could lead to war in the Middle East; the Arab League is formed.
1947 — Hollywood comes under scrutiny as the House UnAmerican Activities Committee opens hearings into alleged communist influence and infiltration within the US motionpicture industry.
1960 — Penguin Books goes on trial in London, charged with contravening Britain’s Obscene Publications Act by publishing D.H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
1969 — The Save Manapouri protest begins New Zealand’s first nationwide conservation campaign following a meeting in Invercargill.
1977 — The civilian government in Thailand is ousted in a bloodless coup by the military junta which installed the regime one year earlier.
1986 — Israeli Likud Party leader Yitzhak Shamir takes over as prime minister from Labour’s Shimon Peres under a 1984 powersharing arrangement.
1987 — Triggered by a sharp downturn in the US, a New Zealand sharemarket crash occurs and many highprofile companies are forced into receivership; 10 people are killed when a US air force jet crashes into a hotel near Indianapolis International Airport after the pilot ejected safely. 1999 — An express freight train collides with a stationary southbound freight train at Waipahi in South Otago, killing one person and seriously injuring another.
2011 — New Zealand prime minister John Key opens the Mad Butcher’s Sports Museum in Auckland. It was converted from an old Manurewa meat factory.
Today’s birthdays:
Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (16321723); Bela Lugosi, Hungarian American actor (18821956); Mickey Mantle, US baseball player (193195); Wanda Jackson, US country singer (1937); Mac Herewini, All Black (19392014); Tom Petty, US singer (19502017); Allan Donald, former South African cricketer (1966); Susan Tulley, British actress (1967); Mark Douglas, New Zealand cricket international (1968); Dannii Minogue, Australian singeractress (1971).
Thought for today:
Morals is not preaching, it is beauty of a rare kind. — Ernest Dimnet, French priest, lecturer and author (18661954).