In Hong Kong
1960: About 10,000 fans turned out to watch Hong Kong beat Costa Rica, 3-0, in a friendly at Hong Kong Stadium. Princess Helen Shah of Nepal arrived at Kai Tak.
1962: Silent film star Harold Lloyd gave a press conference at The Peninsula hotel prior to the premiere of his World Of Comedy film. He said 'silent movies had tremendous world appeal, possibly because there was no language barrier, but mainly the humour was basic and therefore believable'.
1964: Yu Shau-do, a Wan Chai roof squatter, won a $60,000 flat, the first prize in a Caritas raffle.
1967: Two explosions rocked the terminal at Kai Tak airport but caused no injuries. Carlos Mendo, of the Spanish news agency EFE, was in the Miramar Restaurant where one of the blasts occurred and said the crowd was 'very British' and most of them took no notice of the explosion and 'went on drinking their tea'.
1983: Exhausted firemen fought a total of 73 blazes around the territory. In the past 40 days, more than 1,600 hectares of vegetation and 87,000 trees had been destroyed by hill fires.