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28th November 1893: New Zealand women vote for the first time in a national election

  • 28th November 2019
  • Tagged as: Election, New Zealand, Politics, Suffrage, Vote, Women, Women's Suffrage

Every New Zealand woman over the age of 21 was able to vote in the world’s first general election in a self-governing colony.

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2nd November 1868: New Zealand becomes the first country to use standardised time

  • 2nd November 2019
  • Tagged as: Britain, Date, Law, New Zealand, Railways, Telegraph, Time, Train

Prior to the adoption of universally accepted time zones, the vast majority of settlements around the world observed local mean solar time.

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29th May 1953: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach summit of Mount Everest

  • 29th May 2019
  • Tagged as: Britain, Culture, Elizabeth II, Himalayas, Kathmandu, Mount Everest, mountaineering, Nepal, New Zealand, Newspaper, Sherpa

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

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3rd September 1939: Second World War begins

  • 3rd September 2018
  • Tagged as: Australia, Britain, Chamberlain, Churchill, France, Germany, Nazi, New Zealand, Poland, Second World War

On the 3rd September 1939, the Second World War officially began when France and the United Kingdom – together with Australia and New Zealand – declared war on Germany.

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