Today in NZ history- 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.
- 20/02/1954 - Yvette Williams sets world long jump recordEighteen months after winning the long jump at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, Williams set a new world record of 20 feet 7 1/2 inches (6.29 m) at an athletics meeting in Gisborne.
- 21/02/1879 - Kaitangata mining disasterOn the morning of 21 February 1879, an explosion rocked the coalmine at Kaitangata, South Otago.
- 19/02/1938 - Kopuawhara flood kills 21
Monthly Archives: January 2018
How dare they mock him? (How could they not?)
Today’s World Wide Web is full of reaction to Donald Trump’s pronouncement that he’s a “very stable genius”. You might wonder at a man who is so unaware that he can’t understand that such a twitterclaim would dump him straight … Continue reading
