Events
- The fourth Sweetwaters Music Festival is held near Pukekawa.
- The visit of the United States nuclear-powered frigate Texas sparks widespread protests.
- The Official Information Act 1982 replaces the 1951 Official Secrets Act.
- 1 January: The Closer Economic Relations Free trade agreement between Australia and New Zealand comes into force.
- March: The Prince and Princess of Wales visit New Zealand, bringing their baby son Prince William with them.
- 28 March: Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Minister for Trade, Lionel Bowen and New Zealand High Commissioner to Australia, Laurie Francis sign the Closer Economic Relations agreement in Canberra, Australia.
- 1 July: Lorraine Downes, Miss New Zealand, is crowned Miss Universe in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- 22 August: The New Zealand Party is launched.
- 1 September: Disappearance (and presumed death) of 14-year-old Kirsa Jensen.
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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)
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)