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Published date24 June 2022
Publication titleNorthern Advocate, The (Whangarei, New Zealand)
2Apple recently discontinued what iconic product after 20 years

3Naming the American cable television company, what does the acronym HBO stand for?

4What is New Zealand’s most ethnically diverse city?

5Who directed the films Lady Bird and Little Women, as well as the upcoming romantic comedy Barbie?

History 1497 The first recorded sighting of North America by a European took place as explorer John Cabot spots land, probably in present-day Canada.

1509 Henry VIII is crowned king of England; his wife, Catherine of Aragon, is crowned queen consort.

1807 A grand jury in Virginia indicts former US Vice President Aaron Burr on charges of treason and high misdemeanour.

1916 Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million-dollar contract.

1939 The Southeast Asian country Siam changes its name to Thailand.

1940 France signs an armistice with Italy during World War II.

1942 Village of Ležáky, Czechoslovakia, is destroyed by Nazis after the Gestapo finds a radio transmitter believed to have been involved coordinating the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. A firing squad executes 33 adults, children are sent to the gas chambers, and the village is burned down and ploughed under.

1948 Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the western allies to organise the Berlin...

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