In Hong Kong 1957: Eight people died when Typhoon Wendy passed through Hong Kong. American millionaire Nelson Rockefeller was forced to divert his Taipei-bound plane to the colony.
1959: A new chapter in Hong Kong's civil aviation history was written when a CPA DC-3 took off from Kai Tak at 8.30pm to officially introduce night flying.
1964: Actress Lin Dai died after being found unconscious in her gas-filled bedroom on Jardine's Lookout. The 30-year-old Kweilin native, who made her name in the film Tsui Tsui, left a note to her husband to 'take good care of our son'.
1967: An explosion inside the Russell Street tram depot injured a passer-by and damaged a tram. Earlier in the day, police had raided a Dairy Farm worker's quarters and a union headquarters in Pokfulam, arresting six, after a large cachet of weapons were seized.
1978: Kowloon housewife Maria Cheng became the hundredth-million driver to use the Cross Harbour Tunnel since it opened in 1972.
Around The World 1453: The French defeated the English in the Battle of Castillon at the end of the Hundred Years War.