In Hong Kong 1949: Tam Ying, 30, was fined $15 yesterday in a Kowloon court for playing a violin at 12 Mou Lam Street, at 35 minutes past midnight.
1954: At the Hoover in Causeway Bay, Wicked Woman was showing - 'she used sex the way a hoodlum used a gun'. Starring Beverly Michaels and Richard Egan.
1957: The Kremlin set 1973 as its deadline for achieving world domination, said Frederick C Schwarz, Australian executive director of the Christian anti-communist crusade.
1962: Reginald William St George, 38, came to Hong Kong to look for a bride. The Australian lawyer, who travelled 26 countries in his search, said he preferred to find a Chinese girl.
Around the world 1487: The last great battle was fought on English soil, signifying the end of the 'War of the Roses' between the houses of York and Lancaster. Six thousand soldiers died in the Battle of Stoke, which secured the English throne for the Tudor monarchs.
1671: Rebel Cossack leader Stenka Razin was executed by quartering in Moscow's Red Square.