ANZAC Day in New Zealand and Australia - commemorating the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps landings at Gallipoli, Turkey, in 1915.
2006 - Maori Television's 17-hour coverage watched by a quarter of a million people in NZ and many overseas, and well received by newspaper reviewers
2020 - during New Zealand's lockdown because of the level 4 alert to COVID-19, the traditional dawn services were not allowed. Instead, thousands of Kiwis stood at their front gates at 6 in the morning to honour the fallen soldiers.