In Hong Kong
1958: Carmen 'Chuchay' Tuason, Miss Philippines 1958, arrived from Manila. She was en route to Belgium to represent the country at the Brussels International Fair.
1961: Dr Wang Cheng-ting, a veteran Chinese diplomat, patriot and reformer, died in Hong Kong, aged 79. Known to his friends as 'CT', he held such positions as China's foreign minister, ambassador to Washington and spokesmen at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919.
1964: Cheung Tsai, a 19-year-old fish-stall operator, snared his biggest fish ever when he helped pull Sir Chau Tsun-nin out of the harbour. The 70-year-old chairman of the Canton Trust and Commercial Bank slipped and fell into the water while walking to his car at the Vehicular Ferry Pier. He later offered his rescuer a trainee job with the bank.
1970: Government and 'state-aided' housing had become the housing of one in three of Hong Kong's four million people, said Paul KC Tsui, the deputy secretary for Home Affairs.
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