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SCMP Reporter

In Hong Kong

1963: For sale: Victoria Park Mansion flat on Paterson Street, Causeway Bay. Three bedrooms, 1,300 square feet, two bathrooms, living room, balcony, amah's room. Overlooking park. $129,000 or best offer.

1965: Sixty journalists from Hong Kong and Macau sat down to a four-course dinner of dog meat in Beijing. The dinner was given for their attendance at General Li Tsung-jen's press conference.

1968: Police waded in with batons to disperse a crowd of about 1,000 people gathered in front of the Bank of China in Des Voeux Road, Central, for the third consecutive night.

1975: The Queen stripped disgraced former Chief Superintendent of Police, Peter Godber, of all awards made to him during his 22 years of service with the Royal Hong Kong Police Force.

Around the world

1226: St Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, died.

1656: Miles Standish, one of the Pilgrim Fathers who sailed in the Mayflower, died aged about 72.

1691: The Treaty of Limerick was signed, ending the Irish Rebellion.

1896: William Morris, English poet and painter, died aged 62.

1899: A border dispute between British Guiana and Venezuela was settled. Venezuela gained the area around the mouth of the Orinoco River.

1906: SOS was established as an international distress signal at the Berlin Radio Conference.

1929: Yugoslavia became the official name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

1932: Iraq became independent as the British mandate ended and it joined the League of Nations.

1952: The first British atomic bomb was detonated on the Montebello Islands off Australia.

1963: Honduran president Ramon Villeda Morales was overthrown in a military coup.

1967: Sir Malcolm Sargent, English conductor noted for his interpretations of Elgar, died.

1968: Peruvian president Fernando Belaunde Terry was overthrown by a revolutionary junta headed by Velasco Alvarado.

1976: Black leader Bishop Abel Muzorewa returned to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) after two years in exile in Tanzania.

1977: Former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was arrested on corruption charges.

1981: A hunger strike by Irish republican prisoners at the Maze prison in Belfast ended after seven months and 10 deaths.

1989: Troops loyal to Panamanian strongman General Manuel Antonio Noriega crushed a coup attempt by junior officers.

1990: East and West Germany formally united at midnight, ending 45 years of Cold War division.

1997: A third powerful earthquake in a week rocked central Italy, causing more damage to the interior of the 13th-century Basilica of St Francis in Assisi.



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