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In Hong Kong

1959: Twenty-two women, mostly farmers' wives, were arrested after they attacked police who had come to investigate their interference with Public Works Department workmen building a public path near Sha Tau Kok. The group from the Kong Ha Village believed the construction of a 70-metre path would obstruct fulfilment of a legend - that a future emperor or great man would be born in their locality.

1962: Magistrate T L Yang declared there were too many hooligans in the colony as he ordered five teenaged boys who had been in a gang fight to be placed under probationary supervision for two years.

1964: The President Hotel announced two performances by 'Mr Rhythm' Frankie Laine at the Nine Dragons Supper Club.

A champagne dinner and show for the American singer, famous for his hits Jezebel, Mule Train and I Believe, were $50.

1966: Hollywood producer-director Robert Wise, who was in town to shoot the Steve McQueen film, The Sand Pebbles, held a party in his suite at The Peninsula hotel after being awarded the best director Academy Award for his work on The Sound Of Music.

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