Weatherday: Rainbow Warrior

A cool fresh start in glorious blue. Sunny through most of the day in gentle to moderate breezes from the northwest.

Air temperatures locally up to 15deg, warmer in sunny corners.

On this day in 1985 French foreign intelligence agents of the DGSE blew up the Greenpeace boat 'Rainbow Warrior' in Auckland harbour, to prevent it interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. A Dutch photographer on board, Fernando Pereira, was killed.

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