Events
- 1 January – New Zealand Australia Free Trade Agreement comes into force.
- 19–20 October – President of the United States of America Lyndon B. Johnson visits New Zealand, becoming the first serving US President to visit the country.
- November – The Grey River Argus ceases publication. The newspaper was founded in 1865.
- New Zealand appoints an ambassador to Italy and establishes an embassy in Rome.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)