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Today in history

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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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