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In Hong Kong
1959: The SCMP Scamps
retained the Ernest Borel Shield when they beat the Hong Kong Standard Tigers in the fourth annual pressmen's softball match at King's Park.
1963: Three people were killed and at least 51 injured as Typhoon Faye lashed the territory. Many squatter huts were destroyed by winds of up to 145km/h.
1971: Share prices hit record peaks on Hong Kong's stock market in a frenzied history-making buying spree. Turnover on the colony's three stock exchanges totalled $181.7 million.
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