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Most read stories on hawkesbaytoday.co.nz

1 Faultline in the spotlight

2 Eddie Spaghetti: A lovable man

who came to a tragic end

3 Shoppers go barmy for Black

Friday deals

4 Huge fundraising result for

Cranford

5 Russell Roads plans quarry

expansion

Quiz

1 Christian name of Porsche who

designed the VW Beetle?

2 Surname of the man whose patent for vulcanised rubber was granted in 1844?

3 Which planet takes approximately

165 earth years to orbit the sun?

4 How many pairs of chromosomes are there in a normal human body cell?

5 Surname of the discoverer of

X-rays in 1895?

Joke of the day

QWhat did the policeman say to his belly button?

You’re under a vest!

ABible quote

And if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15

History

1520: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name.

1942: Fire engulfed the Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston, killing 492 people in the deadliest nightclub blaze ever.

1943: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began conferring in Tehran during World War II.

1964: The United States launched the space probe Mariner 4 on a course toward Mars, which it flew past in July 1965, sending back pictures of the red planet.

1979: An Air New Zealand DC-10 en route to the South Pole crashed into Mt Erebus in Antarctica, killing all 257 people aboard.

1990: Margaret Thatcher resigned as British prime minister.

Birthdays

● Singer Randy Newman is 75.

● Actor Ed Harris is 68.

● Actor Judd Nelson is 59.

● Comedian Jon Stewart is 56.

● Hip-hop musician apl.de.ap (Black Eyed Peas) is 44.

● Actor Malcolm Goodwin is 43.

● Actor Daniel Henney is 39.

● Rock musician Rostam Batmanglij is 35.

● Actor-rapper Bryshere Gray is 25.

Quiz Answers

1 Ferdinand; 2 Goodyear; 3 Neptune; 4 Twenty-three; 5 Roentgen.

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