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Most read stories on hawkesbaytoday.co.nz

1 Crash on Hawke’s Bay Expressway

2 Bashed in the street: Homicide

inquiry in Flaxmere

3 Recloak our land with native trees

4 CHB rateable values jump 55 per

cent

5 Six people transported to hospital

in two late-afternoon crashes

Quiz

1 Southland and which other region celebrated their 150th anniversaries in 1998?

2 In which country was the sport of

orienteering founded?

3 At which circuit did ex-world racing champion Jim Clark lose his life in 1968?

4 How many grades of black belt

are there in judo?

5 Which cereal forms the staple diet of 70 per cent of the world’s population?

Joke of the day

Q: Why did Johnny throw the clock out of the window?

A: Because he wanted to see time fly!

Bible quote

And Zacchaeus stood, and said to the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. — Luke 19:8

History

1924: Macy’s first Thanksgiving Day parade — billed as a Christmas Parade — took place in New York.

1942: During World War II, the Vichy French navy scuttled its ships and submarines in Toulon to keep them out of the hands of German troops.

1962: The first Boeing 727 was rolled out at the company’s Renton Plant.

1978: San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor

Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White. (White served five years for manslaughter. He committed suicide in Oct. 1985.)

2005: Doctors in France performed the world’s first partial face transplant on a woman disfigured by a dog bite. Isabelle Dinoire received the lips, nose and chin of a braindead woman in a 15-hour operation.

Birthdays

● Footwear designer Manolo Blahnik is 76.

● Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is 67.

● Caroline Kennedy is 61.

● Academy Award-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri is 61.

● Rock musician Charlie Burchill (Simple Minds) is 59.

● Jazz composer/big band leader Maria Schneider is 58.

● Actress Robin Givens is 54.

Quiz Answers

1. Otago 2. Sweden 3. Hockenheim

4. Twelve 5. Rice

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