In Hong Kong
1964: Turin Motors spray-painted a Fiat limousine gold for use by Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida during a visit to Hong Kong for a cocktail party in her honour.
1965: A venomous mountain pit viper, related to the rattle snake, was found in Hong Kong for the first time, near the summit of Tai Mo Shan.
1968: American newsman Walter Cronkite arrived from Saigon where he had been covering the Vietnam War and told the press the Viet Cong might launch another wave of attacks on Saigon.
1970: Leading Australian jockey John Miller passed through Hong Kong on his way to Ireland. The champion rider had won the coveted Melbourne Cup-Caulfield Cup double on Galilee in 1966.
1975: Taiwan's Hsieh Yung-yo won the Hong Kong Open for the fourth time.