SunLive weather is brought to you today by the Bay of Plenty Garden and Art Festival which begins today and runs through to Sunday. This morning's mystery garden is located in Te Puke.

In today's weather forecast we are expecting morning cloud, then fine for the rest of the day, with northerly breezes developing.

It's a one-clothing layer day today with a high of 20 and an overnight low of 11 degrees. Humidity is 71 per cent.

High tide is at 1.10pm and low tide at 7.30pm (Tay St). There's a sea swell of 0.7m and sea temperature is 17 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 8pm.

If you're going fishing the next best fish bite time is between 6 and 8pm.

On this day in NZ history in 1861 Dunedin became the first New Zealand centre with a daily newspaper on publication of the first issue of the Otago Daily Times.

In world history on this day in 1920 forty-one nations opened the first League of Nations session in Geneva. In 1922 it was announced that Dr. Alexis Carrel had discovered white corpuscles.

In 1942, having lost its second battleship in as many days, the Japanese navy withdrew from Guadalcanal. Following this three-day confrontation, the initiative at Guadalcanal, in the Solomons and the entire Pacific passed irretrievably from the Japanese to the Americans.

In 1957 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev asserted Soviet superiority in missiles, challenging the United States to a rocket-range shooting match.

In 1960 the first submarine with nuclear missiles, the USS George Washington, took to sea from Charleston, South Carolina.

In 1969 a quarter of a million anti-Vietnam War demonstrators marched in Washington, D.C. In 1976 a Syrian peace force took control of Beirut, Lebanon.

In 1984 baby Fae died 20 days after receiving a baboon heart transplant in Loma Linda, California.

In 1985 an Anglo-Irish Agreement was signed by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald. In 1988 the Palestinian National Council proclaimed an independent State of Palestine.

In 1990 the People's Republic of Bulgaria was replaced by a new republican government. In 2007 Cyclone Sidr struck Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people.

Today is the birthday of Sir William Hershel, the British astronomer who discovered Uranus. Born in 1738, he once said 'I have looked further into space than any human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.”

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SunLive weather is brought to you today by the Bay of Plenty Garden and Art Festival, and features one of the 70 beautiful gardens on the Garden and Art Trail.

Festival trail opening times: 9.30am– 5pm Thursday November 15 to Saturday November 17; 9.30am - 3pm Sunday November 18.

Bloom in the Bay (Tauranga Historic Village) opening times: 9am - 9.30pm Thursday November 15 to Sunday November 18.

To find out more go to the Garden and Art Festival website.

Have a great day!