In Hong Kong
1962: All 40 dairy farms in the Diamond Hill area were demolished to make way for a 30-acre resettlement estate to house 110,000 people in the next three years.
1964: Arnold Palmer shot a two-under-par 68 during an exhibition on the new course at the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club in Fanling. The American great played the course sight unseen and with a borrowed sets of clubs.
1966: Japanese scientists broke the 'scent barrier', a discovery that would revolutionise Hong Kong's plastic flower industry. The experimental chemists had created nearly 100 varieties of aromatic chemicals that would not lose their scent for a year.
1968: Danny Diaz and the Checkmates, The Wot's Happening and The Menace advanced to the grand final of the 'Levi's Battle of the Sounds' at City Hall. The groups would meet Teddy Robin and the Playboys, the Mystics and the G Clef Five for the title of Hong Kong's top group.
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