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1 Truck rolls down stream bank in

Hawke’s Bay

2 Centenarian’s tip: Marry a good

cook

3 Woman charged after pedestrian’s death near Napier shops

4 Hawke’s Bay’s summer arrives as

it hits 24C by 9am

5 ‘It’s senseless’: Napier petrol pump

vandal blasted

Quiz

1 There are 46 states and four Commonwealths in the United States — name any two of the Commonwealths.

2 How does one address a cardinal? 3 Beginning with the letter M, name

the national dance of Poland?

4 What duo recorded the song I

Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)?

5 Who won the 1973 NZ Sportsman of the Year award, due to performances mainly overseas?

Joke of the day

Q: How do vampires start their letters?

A: “Tomb it may concern . . .”

Bible quote

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. — Psalms 51:10

History

1620: The passengers and crew of the Mayflower sighted Cape Cod in the US.

1918: It was announced that Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II would abdicate. He then fled to the Netherlands.

1938: Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as Jewishowned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in a pogrom or deliberate persecution that became known as “Kristallnacht”.

1961: The Beatles’ future manager, Brian Epstein, first saw the group perform at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England.

1967: A Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight.

1970: Former French President Charles de Gaulle died at age 79. 1989: Communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West. 1999: With fireworks, concerts and a huge party at the landmark Brandenburg Gate, Germany celebrated the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Birthdays

● Actor Charlie Robinson is 73.

● Movie director Bille August is 70. ● Actor Lou Ferrigno is 67.

● Rapper Pepa (Salt-N-Pepa) is 49. ● Actor Jason Antoon is 47.

● Actor Eric Dane is 46.

Quiz Answers

1) 2 of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Kentucky and Virginia. 2) Your Eminence 3) Mazurka 4) Hall and Oates 5) Glenn Turner

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