In Hong Kong 1957: There were 168,000 Buddhists in the US according to a visiting American Buddhist priest, the Reverend James E Wagner, who converted to the religion 10 years previously.
1960: Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, wrote about his visit to the mainland in The Sunday Times : 'There is a deadly hatred of the US and everything American in China.' 1963: Hotel tycoon Conrad Hilton arrived in the colony to attend the opening of the Hong Kong Hilton in Central.
1966: At least 51 people, including two South China Morning Post journalists, were killed following one of the worst rainstorms in Hong Kong history. More than 6,000 were left homeless by the 78 landslides.
Around the world 1667: The first successful blood transfusion was carried out by Jean-Baptiste Denys, personal physician to King Louis XIV of France - on a 15-year-old-boy using blood from a sheep.
1798: On the outset of his expedition to conquer Egypt, Napoleon Bonaparte captured the island of Malta.
1842: Thomas Arnold, English educator who reformed the public school system in England, died.