I studied the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior as part of an essay on state terrorism. It's pretty rare, if not unique, in being a terrorist attack authorised by a government (and when I say government, I mean former French President Mitterand) on an ally. You can dig up other examples of one government covertly acting against another during peacetime, but I can't think of any quite like this, where the two governments were actually not just at peace, but allies.
Since my university doesn't actually offer any courses specifically on New Zealand history, I have to work it into other courses where it's thematically appropriate. My passion for Kiwi history was initially evoked when I did a course called Struggle for Universal Human Rights and did an essay on the suffragists in New Zealand, since it was the first country to give women the vote.