Today in NZ history- 23/08/1920 - New Zealand's first female OlympianViolet Waldron was New Zealand’s first female Olympian, and part of New Zealand’s first Olympic team of four. She competed in freestyle swimming in the 1920 Antwerp Summer Olympics.
- 23/08/1939 - Writer Robin Hyde dies in LondonThe journalist, poet and novelist, born Iris Wilkinson, was one of New Zealand's finest inter-war writers. Troubled by depression, illness and poverty, she took her own life in London.
- 23/08/1947 - Assisted immigration resumes after warThe first draft of 118 British immigrants arrived in Auckland on the New Zealand Shipping Company liner Rangitata. They were among 77,000 men, women and children who arrived from Great Britain under the assisted immigration scheme between 1947 and 1975.
- 24/08/1878 - Wellington steam-tram service openedThe governor, the Marquess of Normanby, formally opened the new service, which was said to be the first in the southern hemisphere.
- 23/08/1920 - New Zealand's first female Olympian
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