In Hong Kong
1962: Don Ameche, a popular American radio, film and television personality in the 1940s and 1950s, arrived in Hong Kong for a private visit.
1964: The first public tennis courts in Kowloon were opened in Tin Kwong Road, Kowloon City. The four courts were rented for 60 cents for a half-hour on weekdays and $1 at weekends.
1966: Sex-and-violence comic books from Hong Kong were banned from entering Singapore. Singaporean primary school children had gone hungry in order to buy the comics, a city state spokesman said.
1968: Madeline Hartog Bel, 22, the Peruvian 1967 Miss World, stopped in Hong Kong on her way to London, where she would crown her successor.
1974: Narcotics Bureau detectives arrested Chiu Chow, the alleged 'Mr Big' in the colony's drug trade.
