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Compilation of major news events for the years 1963-88
35 tracks under 2 minutes each.
Most items are announced.
Tape one:
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2. 'Wahine' wrecked in Wellington Harbour 10/4/68
3. Abbotsford Landslip 8/8/79
4. Air New Zealand DC10 crashes into Mount Erebus 28/11/79
5. Waikato -Springbok game cancelled. Reporter Ewart Barnsley. 25/7/81
6. Norman Kirk becomes Prime Minister 25/11/72
7. Norman Kirk dies 31/8/74
8. Kaimai air crash 3/7/63
9. The Beatles arrive in Wellington 21/6/1964
10. Mount Eden Prison riots 20-21 July 1965
11. Inangahua earthquake 24/5/68
12. Bastion Point eviction 30/5/78
13. Dame Naomi James completes solo world trip 8/6/78
14. Wellington rail crash 24/3/80
15. Southland floods 13/10/78
16. Richard Nixon resigns 9/8/74
17. John Lennon Shot 8/12/80
18. Arthur Allan Thomas after being pardoned and released from jail 17/12/79
19. Assassination of President Kennedy 22/11/63
Tape two:
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2. Assassination of President Sadat of Egypt 7/10/1981
3. Keith Holyoake becomes Governor-General 26/10/1977
4. Idi Amin becomes President of Uganda for life 25/6/1976
5. Tania Harris anti-union march, Auckland 4/3/1981
6. President Reagan shot 31/3/1981
7. Tehran hostages return to Washington 28/1/1981
8. Under arm bowl in cricket test 2/2/1981
9. Suspected foot and mouth outbreak, Temuka 13/2/1981
10. Pope John Paul shot , Rome 14/5/1981
11. Telethon raises over five million dollars 28/6/1981
12. Verdict in the Mr Asia trial 14/7/1981
13. The Royal Wedding 29/7/1981
14. Jonestown mass suicides 19/11/1978
15. Earl Mountbatten killed by IRA bomb, Prince Charles comments 27/8/1979
16. "Skylab" crashes to earth, eyewitness accounts 13/7/1979
17. First man on the moon- relay from Houston and moon 21/7/1969
18. Lawson quinns born in Auckland, mother and father interviewed 27/7/1985