In today's weather forecast we are expecting a fine day with clear skies until the evening, then cloud increasing and late showers. Also westerlies.

It's a one-clothing layer day today with a high of 25 and an overnight low of 17 degrees. Humidity is 79 per cent.

Low tide is at 10.30am and high tide at 4.40pm (Tay St). There's a sea swell of 0.8m and sea temperature is 20 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 8.31pm.

If you're going fishing the next best fish bite time is between 9 and 11am.

On this day in NZ history in 1879 universal male suffrage was introduced. The Qualification of Electors Act extended the right to vote (or electoral franchise) to all European men aged over 21, regardless of whether they owned or rented property.

In 1941 HMS Neptune was lost in a Mediterranean minefield. In New Zealand's worst naval tragedy, the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Neptune struck enemy mines and sank off Libya. Of the 764 men who lost their lives, 150 were New Zealanders.

On this day in world history in 1909 American socialist women denounced suffrage as a movement of the middle class.

In 1941 Adolf Hitler assumed the position of commander-in-chief of the German army.

In 1982 four bombs exploded at South Africa's only nuclear power station in Johannesburg.

In 1984 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang signed an agreement that committed Britain to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 in return for terms guaranteeing a 50-year extension of its capitalist system. Hong Kong was leased by China to Great Britain in 1898 for 99 years.

In 1998 President Bill Clinton was impeached. The House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against President Clinton, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. Clinton was the second president in American history to be impeached.

Today is the birthday of Mary Ashton Livermore, a temperance worker, women's rights activist, lecturer, and writer; she also founded her own suffrage paper. Born in 1820 she once said 'Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other.”

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Have a great day!