18|11|19 Chernobyl

Chernobyl

Today we did a listening test about Chernobyl. Chernobyl is a place where a nuclear power plant exploded and killed 31 people over a period of months due to radiation.

Chernobyl Facts:

1. Where is Chernobyl? Chernobyl is in Pripyat in Ukraine, SSR.

2. You can still die due to the RADIATION in Chernobyl. Do not go there!

3. Chernobyl is the worst accident in the world. It is also the biggest Nuclear explosion.

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Polish refugees land in New Zealand 1 November 1944

Polish refugees land in New Zealand

1 November 1944

Facts:

1. Around 1.7 million Polish were sent to labor camps around the world.

2. There were 733 children and 102 Polish adults that arrived in NZ.

3. Joseph Stalin sent over 120,000 Polish prisoners to Iraq.

4. Our prime minister Peter Fraser invited polish children in for the duration of war.

5. Most of the refugees settled in NZ others joined in the the 1940's.

6. They were forced labor in Siberia and evacuated through the middle east before coming to NZ.

Death of poet James K. Baxter 22 October 1972

Death of poet James K. Baxter

22 October 1972

The Ant And The Dove was the poem we heard by

James K. Baxter, it was a nice poem and it showed 

us that if we help others they will help us back.

In James's last years he worked as a social worker

to alcoholics and drug addicts.

Stolen medals returned to National Army Museum 21 October 2008

Stolen medals returned to National Army Museum21 October 2008

on the second of December 2007 96 medals were stolen from Waiouru Museum.  On the 21st of October 2008 they put out a reward for $300,000 Reward for the medals. A week earlier 2 men had been put in prison, one was sent for six years, the other eleven years.

NZ History Today 17/10/19

Chief Justice declares treaty 'worthless' and a 'simple nullity'

17 October 1877

Today in NZ History, James Prendergast was the 

Attorney-General from 1865-1875. James Prendergast 

took the land from the Maori saying he would use it to 

build a school, but he never did. The Maori wanted the 

land back, but when they asked James said 

they could not have it back.

nzhistory.govt.nz

16/10/19

Main Body of NZEF sails to war
16 October 1914

On the 16th of October of 1914 the main body of NZEF

 left Wellington to go war, on board there were around 

8,500 men and 4,000 horses. This was the second

 MAJOR departure for the first world war after the 

Samoa Advance Force. Over 30,000 people attended 

the farewell in Wellington, there were others in Auckland 

and Christchurch.

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/main-body-nzef-sails-war