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Top five online Most read stories on hawkesbayt­oday.co.nz

1 ‘Human error': Hawke's Bay woman moved to safe home after privacy breach

2 The incredible story of two Kiwi boys, their Rubik's cubes and a stranger's $50 notes

3 Farms feel skilled internatio­nal

worker shortage

4 ‘Couldn't believe my eyes': Wasp nest found in paddock shocks beekeeper

5 Napier dairy crowned New Zealand's most appreciate­d small business

Quiz

1 Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig have been the hosts of what popular British TV baking show since 2017?

2 What primatolog­ist and conservati­onist did Sigourney Weaver portray in the 1988 film Gorillas in the Mist?

3 What town is known as the “Cherry Capital of New Zealand”, staging an annual cherry stone spitting championsh­ip?

4 What country was founded by Muhammad Ali Jinnah in 1947?

5 Kevin Arnold was the protagonis­t of what coming-of-age TV series?

History

1527 Unpaid troops loyal to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V attacked Rome, forcing Pope Clement VII to flee to safety.

1840 World's first adhesive postage stamp, the "Penny Black", is first used in Great Britain

1915 Babe Ruth hit his first majorleagu­e home run as a player for the Boston Red Sox.

1937 The hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg caught fire and crashed while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey; 35 of the 97 people on board were killed along with a crewman on the ground.

1954 Medical student Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile during a track meet in Oxford, England, in 3:59.4.

1994 Nelson Mandela and the ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa's first post apartheid election

2020 President Donald Trump reversed course on plans to wind down his COVID-19 task force; he said the force would shift its focus toward rebooting the economy and developing a vaccine.

Birthdays

● Rock singer Bob Seger is 76 ● Actor-director George Clooney is 60

● Actor Noah Galvin is 27.

Quiz Answers

1. The Great British Bake-off

2. Dian Fossey

3. Cromwell

4. Pakistan

5. The Wonder Years Questions set by Believe it or Not

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