New Zealand nationality law details the conditions by which a person may
hold New Zealand nationality. Regulations apply to the Realm of New
Zealand, which consists of the country of New Zealand itself, the Cook
Islands, Niue, Tokelau, and the Ross Dependency. All persons born in the
Realm before 2006 were automatically citizens at birth regardless of the
nationalities of their parents. Since that year, individuals born in the
Realm only receive citizenship at birth if at least one parent is
already a citizen or entitled to live in New Zealand indefinitely
(meaning permanent residents of New Zealand or of Australia, and
citizens of Australia). Foreigners living in the Realm may be granted
citizenship after becoming permanent residents. New Zealand is a former
British colony and its residents were previously British subjects. While
New Zealanders are no longer British, they continue to hold favoured
status when living in the United Kingdom; they are eligible to vote in
British elections and serve in public office there.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_nationality_law>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1818:
Charles XIV John succeeded to the thrones of Sweden and Norway
as the first monarch of the House of Bernadotte.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XIV_John>
1861:
In a speech before the U.S. Congress, Representative John
Edward Bouligny refused to join his fellow Louisiana congressmen in
heeding the state's secession convention and resigning.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edward_Bouligny>
1913:
Greek military aviators Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis
Moraitinis performed the first naval air mission in history, with a
Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristeidis_Moraitinis_%28aviator%29>
2004:
Twenty-three cocklers were drowned by an incoming tide in
Morecambe Bay, England, prompting the establishment of the British
government's Gangmasters Licensing Authority.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morecambe_Bay_cockling_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
who would have thunk it:
(colloquial, sometimes sarcastic) A rhetorical question used to express
incredulity: who would have guessed it?; who would have thought that
would happen?
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/who_would_have_thunk_it>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There are those in our party who believe that as the presiding
officer over the joint session of Congress, that I possessed unilateral
authority to reject electoral college votes. And I heard this week,
President Trump said I had the right to "overturn the election". But
President Trump is wrong — I had no right to overturn the election.
The presidency belongs to the American people, and the American people
alone. And frankly there is no idea more un-American than the notion
that any one person could choose the American president. Under the
Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election.
--Mike Pence
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mike_Pence>