Older Than deck / Events and discoveries
First Rugby World Cup
First held
1987
The men’s rugby union tournament, first held in New Zealand and Australia.
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Checked 2026-10-21: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.
“1987”World Rugby: source, retrieved 2026-10-21; quote re-found by the server check
“1987”New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage: source, retrieved 2026-10-21; server could not read it (403); not found by Codex
“1987”Te Ara — Encyclopedia of New Zealand: source, retrieved 2026-10-21; server could not read it (403); not found by Codex
“1987”Store norske leksikon: source, retrieved 2026-10-21; quote re-found by the server check
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