1997: Rabbit-killing virus released
Ministry of Agriculture staff yesterday converged on four Cromwell farms after the discovery of the rabbit-killing RCD virus but are saying privately it will be impossible to eradicate.
150 Years
1996: Danyon Loader swims into history
1996: Danyon Loader swims into history
Dunedin's Danyon Loader felt like a greyhound chasing a lure when he won his second Olympic swimming gold medal at the Atlanta Games yesterday.
1996: National, New Zealand First form coalition government
1996: National, New Zealand First form coalition government
Winston Peters played the piper to perfection for eight long weeks and more. As his MMP tune drew to its long-awaited climax, the former cabinet minister who had bitterly rejected National and formed his own party proved again last night the political saw, "anything is possible in politics".
1996: NZ Order of Merit announced
1996: NZ Order of Merit announced
Prime Minister Jim Bolger yesterday announced further details of a new honours system which replaces the traditional British orders with New Zealand-based honours.
1990: Cars overturned, sofa burnt, as students riot
1990: Cars overturned, sofa burnt, as students riot
About 1500 drunken students caused havoc in North Dunedin on Saturday night after they upturned cars, lit street fires and pelted police with bottles and bricks.
1990: Massacre leaves nation in shock
1990: Massacre leaves nation in shock
A six-year-old child is dead, a policeman is missing, believed dead, and six other people were shot and wounded after an Aramoana man went on the rampage with a high-powered rifle last night.
Early this morning police believed the gunman was still at large, but confined to an area between Te Ngaru and Spit Beach.
1989: Chinese soldiers kill protesters in Tiananmen Square
1989: Chinese soldiers kill protesters in Tiananmen Square
Soldiers stormed Tiananmen Square yesterday and crushed a three-week student sit-in for democracy, shooting and beating demonstrators in clashes. A doctor estimated at least 500 people were killed.
1989: Euphoria as Berlin Wall crumbles
1989: Euphoria as Berlin Wall crumbles
Thousands of Germans from East and West embraced in laughter and tears after the East dramatically threw open the 28-year-old Berlin Wall.
1989: Local body boundaries announced
1989: Local body boundaries announced
The splitting of North Otago between the new Canterbury and Otago regions is confirmed in the final reorganisation schemes announced by the Local Government Commission.
1986: Angry PM rushes from function amid protest
1986: Angry PM rushes from function amid protest
April 16: Angry Otago rural people rushed a car taking an equally annoyed Prime Minister, the Rt Hon D. R. Lange, away from a tense official function at the Invermay Agricultural Centre in Mosgiel yesterday.
1985: Advice on nuclear fire sought
1985: Advice on nuclear fire sought
April, 30 BONN: The Soviet Union yesterday sought West German and Swedish advice on how to fight a fire at a nuclear power plant and West German experts said the request indicated that an atomic reactor in the Ukraine was still burning.
1987: Anger at sweeping closures of post offices
1987: Anger at sweeping closures of post offices
October 16: New Zealand Post yesterday announced that 57 post offices in Otago and Southland will close on February 5, 1988. Of those 28 are in the Dunedin postal district.
1987: NZ market caught in selling panic
1987: NZ market caught in selling panic
October 20: Sharemarkets around the world have fallen out of bed in the past two trading days, New Zealand following the pattern yesterday by losing 154.68 points on the Barclays industrial index.
1987: Triumph in first World Cup
1987: Triumph in first World Cup
All Black captain David Kirk with the Webb Ellis Trophy. Photo: The New Zealand Herald
June 22: If the inaugural World Cup rugby competition has done nothing else, it has restored the prestige of the game in New Zealand and returned the faith and interest of thousands of New Zealanders when so many of them had despaired about what was happening.
1997: Princess Diana dies in crash
1997: Princess Diana dies in crash
PARIS: Princess Diana and her millionaire companion, Dodi Al Fayed, were killed in a car crash early yesterday while being chased through Paris by photographers on motorcycles.
1997: Floodwaters overwhelm Opuha dam; residents evacuated
1997: Floodwaters overwhelm Opuha dam; residents evacuated
Surging Canterbury floodwater tore away a third of the massive Opuha dam near Fairlie early yesterday, sending a violent wall of water towards the sea.
1998: ECNZ split could reduce electricity prices
1998: ECNZ split could reduce electricity prices
The Government yesterday announced its decision "in principle" to split state-owned electricity generator ECNZ in three.
1998: Foul play feared after pair vanish
1998: Foul play feared after pair vanish
BLENHEIM: Two Marlborough couples fear their children have met with foul play after going missing without a trace in the Marlborough Sounds on New Year's Day.
1998: Otago wins NPC before 40,000 fans
1998: Otago wins NPC before 40,000 fans
Otago sport may never know another day, another occasion like this after its rugby team became the undisputed national champion with a resounding 49-20 win over Waikato at Carisbrook yesterday.
2000: Alexandra flood solution includes some demolitions
2000: Alexandra flood solution includes some demolitions
Half of Alexandra's main business area would be demolished in a proposed $23 million flood protection solution for the town.