Today in NZ history- 18/02/1957 - New Zealand's last executionWalter Bolton, a 68-year-old Whanganui farmer, became the last person executed in New Zealand.
- 18/02/1982 - 'Queen of Crime' Ngaio Marsh diesMarsh, one of the 'Queens of Crime' in the 1920s and 1930s, died just weeks after submitting her 32nd detective novel, Light thickens, to her publishers. She was also an artist, playwright, actor and director.
- 19/02/1938 - Kopuawhara flood kills 21 Twenty men and one woman drowned when a cloudburst sent a wall of water surging through a public works camp in the Kopuawhara Valley, near Māhia.
- 20/02/1914 - Scotland crosses Southland in pioneering flightJ.W.H. Scotland flew a Caudron biplane from Invercargill to Gore, completing the first cross-country flight in New Zealand.
- 18/02/1957 - New Zealand's last execution
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