The weather forecast today is for a fine day with light winds.

It's a three-clothing layer day today with a high of 20 and an overnight low of 11 degrees. Humidity is 96 per cent.

Low tide is at 9.30am and high tide at 3.40pm. There's a sea swell of .4m, with a sea temperature of 18 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 5.32pm.

If you're going fishing the next best fish bite time is between 8 and 10am, and between 8.30 and 10.30pm.

In NZ history on this day in 1943 the New Zealand merchant ship Limerick was torpedoed in the Tasman Sea by a Japanese submarine. Two men died, the rest were rescued after drifting in a life raft.

In 1945 John Mulgan died while serving with the British army in Cairo. Many New Zealanders knew little of the Christchurch-born man but this changed following the 1949 reprint of his novel ‘Man alone', which became a classic of New Zealand literature and a staple of the secondary curriculum.

In 2005 civil unions came into effect in NZ. Couples were now able to register their relationship as a civil union. All couples in New Zealand, whether married, in a civil union, or in a de facto partnership now had equal legal rights and obligations.

In world history on this day in 1514 Copernicus made his first observations of Saturn. In 1929 the first non-stop flight from England to India was completed.

In 1986 the world's worst nuclear disaster occurred at the Chernobyl power plant in the Soviet Union. In 1994 Nelson Mandela won the presidency in South Africa's first multiracial elections. He once said "It always seems impossible until it's done."

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Have a great day!