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New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

Timeline of Events

1986

2.16.1986

The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.

1987

6.8.1987

New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987

1989

2.24.1989

United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, Hawaii, rips open during flight, sucking 9 passengers out of the business-class section.

1990

11.13.1990

In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people, in what becomes known as the Aramoana Massacre.

1991

10.1.1991

New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991 comes into force.

1993

8.10.1993

An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand.

1997

3.3.1997

The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.

1999

11.27.1999

The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.

2007

10.15.2007

Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post 9/11 anti-terrorism raids.

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