In Hong Kong
1960: Harry Belafonte arrived in the colony for a five-day visit following a successful tour of Japan. The actor/singer and civil rights activist, who had recently won an Emmy Award, said he would not be performing in Hong Kong but he would 'speak against racial prejudice anywhere'.
1961: US singer Pat Boone was mobbed by hundreds of teenagers, mainly girls, as he emerged from the customs enclosure at Kai Tak. Boone, who was on a world tour, said during his stay here, he would visit seven-year-old Ho Chak-fan, whom he had adopted through the Foster Parents Plan.
1963: About 150 American soldiers were involved in a Wan Chai brawl, described by a military policeman as the worst he had seen in Hong Kong. Witnesses said the brawl, which had started in a bar and spilled into Lockhart Road, was between American black sailors and white sailors.
1967: Police raided a communist school in Kowloon and were greeted by a blackboard bearing the slogan: 'Lay down your weapons and return home'. Some of the empty classrooms at Heung To Middle School were rigged with trip ropes tied to the doors, which when opened dragged down empty bottles and chairs.
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