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1 Full lockdown or freedom? D-Day looms — the key tests in new outbreak

2 Mad rush’: Masks fly out the door

in Hawke’s Bay

3 Poignant farewell to Minnie

Ratima in Hawke’s Bay

4 MyLotto site crashes as jackpot

soars to $50m — Lotto apologises

5 Covid testing ramps up in Hawke’s Bay, but not everyone needs one, DHB says

Quiz

1 Silver Fern Samantha Winders (nee Sinclair) currently plays for which team in the ANZ Premiership?

2 What actress infamously left the TV series Charmed after the third season?

3 In what city was Ronald Reagan

shot in 1981?

4 The 1994 film Interview with the Vampire was based on a novel by what author?

5 Composed of 60 per cent fat, what

is the fattiest human organ?

History

1945: President Harry S. Truman announced that Imperial Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II.

1948: The Summer Olympics in London ended; they were the first Olympic Games held since 1936.

1973: US bombing of Cambodia came to a halt.

1980: Workers went on strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, in a job action that resulted in creation of the Solidarity labour movement.

1992: The White House announced that the Pentagon would begin emergency airlifts of food to Somalia to alleviate mass deaths by starvation.

2008: President George W. Bush signed consumer-safety legislation that banned lead from children’s toys, imposing the toughest standard in the world.

2018: A highway bridge collapsed in the Italian city of Genoa during a storm, sending vehicles plunging nearly 150 feet and leaving 43 people dead.

Birthdays

● Broadway lyricist Lee Adams (Bye Bye Birdie) is 96.

● Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson is

70.

● Olympic gold medal swimmer Debbie Meyer is

68.

● Rock musician Keith Howland (Chicago) is 56.

● Actor Halle Berry is 54.

● Actor Scott Michael Campbell is

49.

● Actor Lalanya Masters is 48.

● Actor Christopher Gorham is 46.

● Actor Mila Kunis is 37.

● Actor Marsai Martin is 16.

Quiz Answers

1. Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic 2. Shannen Doherty 3. Washington DC

4. Anne Rice 5. Brain

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