Today we are expecting a fine day, with some morning cloud and brisk westerlies.

It's a three-clothing layer day today with a high of 18 and an overnight low of 10 degrees. Humidity is 63 per cent

High tide is at 1.50pm and low tide at 8pm.(Tay Street times). There's a sea swell of 0.3m and the water temperature is 16 degrees. Sunset today is at 7.30pm.

If you're going fishing, the next best fish bite time is between 6.30 and 8.30pm.

In NZ history this day in 1877 Chief Justice Sir James Prendergast declared The Treaty of Waitangi 'worthless' and a 'simple nullity'. The Chief Justice's statements when delivering judgment in the case of Wi Parata v The Bishop of Wellington influenced decision-making on Treaty of Waitangi issues for decades.

In world history on this day in 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived at the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic, where he had been banished by the Allies.

In 1877 Brigadier General Alfred Terry met with Sitting Bull in Canada to discuss the Indians' return to the United States. In 1913 Zeppelin LII exploded over London, killing 28.

In 1933 due to rising anti-Semitism and anti-intellectualism in Hitler's Germany, Albert Einstein, the Nobel-prize-winning physicist, fled Nazi Germany and moved to the United States. He became an American citizen in 1940 and on the eve of World War II warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the potential development of 'extremely powerful bombs of a new type,” recommending that the United States begin similar research.

Today is the birthday of Alexander Gardner, the American photographer who documented the Civil War and the West. Born in 1821, he once said "Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith."

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