Events on this Day – 25 May

Published from a cottage in Montreal Street, the first edition was a six-page tabloid which sold for sixpence.

Police and army personal removed 222 people from Bastion Point, Auckland, ending an occupation that had begun in January 1977. Ngāti Whātua were protesting against the loss of land in the Ōrakei Block, which had once been declared ‘absolutely inalienable’.

In 2022, Shortland Street was New Zealand’s longest-running television drama series

Dixon's victory at the Brickyard in 2008, the first Indianapolis 500 win by a New Zealander, helped him secure his second Indy Racing League championship.