Waitangi Day Facts:

Waitangi Day is celebrated on the 6th February, the first year it was celebrated was 1840.
Did you know that there was a man called Hone Heke & he actually changed his name to Hone Heke and in english it stands for John
The Treaty of Waitangi was signed in Waitangi in the Bay of Islands on February 6th 1840.
Waitangi Day became a nationwide public holiday in 1974 
It was originally  called New Zealand day, But then the prime minister Robert Muldoon changed it back to Waitangi Day.
People celebrate it in different ways. 
As you  can see while reading these facts Waitangi Day has been very interesting in its own way.