Today in NZ history- 06/10/1769 - Young Nick sights landShip’s boy Nicholas Young received a gallon of rum and had a headland named after him for being the first aboard HMS Endeavour to spot land in the south-west Pacific.
- 06/10/1769 - Young Nick sights landShip’s boy Nicholas Young received a gallon of rum and had a headland named after him for being the first aboard HMS Endeavour to spot land in the south-west Pacific.
- 07/10/1917 - German 'Sea Devil' imprisoned in New ZealandFelix Graf von Luckner earned the epithet Der Seeteufel (the Sea Devil) for his exploits as captain of the German raider SMS Seeadler in 1916–17.
- 08/10/1941 - Stan Graham's killing spree on West CoastDairy farmer Stanley Graham killed seven people in Kōwhitirangi on the South Island’s West Coast.
- 06/10/1769 - Young Nick sights land
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
Martinborough Musings 