In today's forecast we are expecting a mainly fine day, but a shower or two is possible. Also westerlies.

It's a three-clothing layer day today with a high of 16 and an overnight low of 6 degrees. Humidity is 65 per cent.

Low tide is at 1.30pm and high tide is at 7.40pm (Tay Street times). There's a sea swell of 0.2m with a sea temperature of 15 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 6.11pm.

If you're going fishing the next best fish bite time is between 4pm and 7pm.

On this day in NZ history in 1865 the Native Rights Act declared all Māori to be natural-born subjects of the Crown, confirming in law the treaty promise that Māori were to be accorded the same status as other British subjects.

In 1907 Joseph Ward proclaimed dominion status for NZ. Prime Minister Ward read the proclamation to a smallish crowd from the steps of the General Assembly Library in Wellington. This first Dominion Day was a public holiday.

In world history on this day in 1580 Sir Francis Drake returned to Plymouth, England, aboard the Golden Hind, after a 33-month voyage to circumnavigate the globe. In 1829 Scotland Yard, the official British criminal investigation organization, was formed.

In 1913 the first boat was raised in the locks of the Panama Canal. In 1955 the New York Stock Exchange suffered a $44 million loss. In 1961 nineteen-year-old Bob Dylan made his New York singing debut at Gerde's Folk City. In 1969 the Beatles last album, Abbey Road, was released.

In 1984 the UK agreed to transfer sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China. In 2008 Yves Rossy, a Swiss pilot and inventor, was the first person to fly a jet-powered wing across the English Channel.

Today is the birthday of Jane Taylor, children's writer best known as the author of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. Born in 1783, she wrote "Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!"

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Have a great day!