In today's weather forecast we are expecting cloudy periods, and a few showers from the afternoon, with northeast breezes.

It's a one-clothing layer day today with a high of 25 and an overnight low of 18 degrees. Humidity is 66 per cent.

High tide is at 10.30am and low tide at 4.40pm. Sea temperature is 20 degrees. There's an average sea swell of .2m. Sunset tonight is at 8.33pm.

If you're going fishing today the best fish bite times are between 8 and 11pm.

This day in NZ history in 1916 a future Prime Minister was charged with sedition. Peter Fraser's trial in the Wellington Magistrates' Court was the sequel to a speech in which he attacked the government's policy of military conscription.

In world history on this day in 1829, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad opened the first passenger railway line. In 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge, General Anthony McAuliffe responded to a German surrender request with a one word answer: 'Nuts”. In 1966 the United States announced the allocation of 900,000 tons of grain to fight the famine in India.

In 1989 on this day the division of East and West Germany effectively ended when the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin reopened for the first time in nearly 30 years. In 2001 a passenger on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris, Richard Reid, unsuccessfully attempted to destroy the plane in flight by igniting explosives he'd hidden in his shoes.

Today's quote is from the Book of John 1:4-5 'In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.”

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