In Hong Kong
1958: A man entered the Koon Wan Lau Restaurant in Shamshuipo, at about 8.30pm, and showed the cashier a sheet of paper on which was written: 'Don't move I have a gun.' He grabbed a quantity of bank notes, estimated at about $100, and then jumped on his bicycle and rode away before the cashier could raise the alarm.
1961: The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation announced it would start operating the colony's first mobile banking service for its New Territories customers. The Bedford lorry would cover rounds in Tsuen Wan, Sham Tseng and Kwai Chung.
1964: Hong Kong had 62 millimetres of rain in 24 hours, its biggest downpour in 19 months.
1965: Basic yoga positions were demonstrated before a number of young women at the Helena May Institute. They were told that people practising simple yoga postures became slender, rejuvenated and regained poise.
1970: Rex II, the missing police dog, returned home after nearly two months on the lam. The 12-year-old German Shepherd disappeared from his kennel in Wong Tai Sin and was finally reported wandering around a construction site at the Royal Hongkong Golf Club in Fanling. He was being fed by workmen.
