In Hong Kong 1948: 'Japanese industries are at present too small to have an appreciable effect on China and Hong Kong,' said superintendent of imports and exports, the Hon E Himsworth. However, it may not last forever, he added.
1959: Further rains added to the previous week's devastation which left 43 dead and more than 6,500 homeless.
1962: The star of The World Of Suzie Wong, Nancy Kwan, 22, returned to Hong Kong with her new husband, Peter Pock, an Austrian ski instructor she married after a seven-week romance.
1972: Advertisement: 'Celebrate anything at The Mandarin . . . The Chinnery Bar is a reminder of the days when man was boss.' Around the world 1215: King John of England sealed the Magna Carta, the Great Charter of English liberties, at Runnymede, near Windsor.
1330: Edward the Black Prince, son and heir of King Edward III of England, born. He was named Black Prince by the French because of the terror of his Hundred Years' War campaign.
1752: Benjamin Franklin carried out his famous experiment using a kite, to prove that lightning was electricity.
