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2012 Event - After weeks of protests, the Hong Kong government backs down on its plans to introduce Chinese patriotism classes in its schools

2012 Event - In China, thousands protest plans to introduce national patriotism lessons in Hong Kong school, labeling it Chines propaganda

2011 Event - Health authorities begin slaughtering 17,000 chickens after a carcass infected with H5N1 is found at a poultry market in Hong Kong

2011 Event - According to Bloomberg, Italian company Prada SpA is planning an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

2011 Event - In Hong Kong, tens of thousands gather in Tiananmen Square to remember victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests

2010 Event - In Hong Kong, 80,000 people rally in response to last week's fatal tourist coast hijacking hostage crisis in the Philippines

2009 Event - The "swine flu", the H1N1 influenza strain is the first condition deemed a global pandemic since the Hong Kong flu of 1967 - 1968

2005 Event - Hong Kong Disneyland opens

2004 Death - Fay Wray, actress, the original King Kong, dies at 96

1997 Event - Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu

1997 Event - U.K. returns Hong Kong to China

1997 Event - British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires

1994 Event - Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841)

1994 Death - Helen Lee Mai, Hong Kong actress, dies at 63

1986 Death - Helen Mack, actress (Son of Kong, Milky Way), dies

1986 Event - Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy

1985 Event - Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997

1984 Event - China Premier Zhao Ziyang and Margaret Thatcher sign Hong Kong Treaty

1984 Event - UK signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997

1984 Event - Britain and China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997

1984 Event - Britain and China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997

1979 Event - Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong

1977 Birthday - Lee San San, Miss Hong Kong Universe 1997

1976 Event - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-Hong Kong Golf Open

1975 Event - 1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao

1975 Birthday - Sofie Rahman, Miss Universe-Hong Kong 1996

1973 Birthday - Chan Ho Park, born in Kong Ju City, Korea, pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers

1972 Death - Victor Wong, actor (Mission to Moscow, King Kong) dies at 65

1969 Birthday - Derek Fung, Hong Kong, Canadian Tour golfer

1968 Birthday - Naomi Watts, born in Shoreham, England, British-Australian actress, films include 'Mulholland Drive', 'King Kong'

1965 Birthday - Rob Smits, pop drummer, Kong/Phlegm

1965 Death - Frank Reicher, actor (King Kong, Nazi Agent, Son of Kong), dies at 89

1963 Birthday - Dermot Reeve, cricketer, in Hong Kong England all-rounder 1992

1961 Birthday - Venice Kong, St. Mary Jamaica, playmate, September, 1985

1961 Birthday - Andy Lau, born in Hong Kong, China, singer, film actor, producer, Cantopop genre, appeared in over 100 films, 300 TVB television mini-series

1961 Death - Charlie Gemora, actor (who portrayed King Kong), dies at 58

1956 Event - "King Kong," 1st televised

1952 Birthday - David Puilum Choi, Hong Kong, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List

1949 Birthday - Brian Kerwin, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Chisholms, King Kong Lives, Lobo

1949 Birthday - Jessica Lange, born in Cloquet, Minnesota, actress, King Kong, Tootsie

1945 Event - Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550

1945 Event - Hong Kong liberated from Japan

1945 Event - British liberate Hong Kong from Japan

1942 Birthday - Simon Keswick, British financier/merchant, Hong Kong

1941 Event - Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong

1941 Event - Japanse troops land on Hong Kong

1941 Birthday - Peter Michael Goetz, actor, Jumping Jack Flash, King Kong Lives

1939 Birthday - Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong, actress, Flower Drum Song, World of Suzie Wong

1939 Birthday - Nancy Kwan, born in Hong Kong, actress, Flower Drum Song, Night Creature

1938 Birthday - Henry Keswick, British financier/merchant, Hong Kong

1935 Birthday - David Wilson, British governor, Hong Kong

1935 Birthday - Dave Wilson, born in Scotland, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, diplomat, administrator, Sinologist, 27th Governor of Hong Kong 1987 - 1992

1933 Birthday - William A Anders, Hong Kong, Major Gen, USAF/astronaut, Apollo 8

1933 Event - New York City premiere of "King Kong"

1933 Event - "King Kong," premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy New York City

1927 Birthday - Michael Sandberg, British CEO, Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp

1926 Birthday - Jan Morris, travel writer, Among the Cities, Hong Kong, Journeys

1925 Event - British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers

1919 Birthday - Dino De Laurentiis, Torre Annunziata Italy, producer, King Kong

1918 Event - Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse and burn, killing 604

1915 Birthday - John Randolph, New York City, actor, King Kong, Lucan, Lucas Tanner, Angie

1912 Birthday - David Merrick, Hong Kong, Broadway producer, Hello Dolly

1912 Birthday - Wendy Barrie, born in Hong Kong, hostess, Wendy Barrie Show

1906 Birthday - Victor Wong, LA Cal, actor, Mission to Moscow, Son of Kong, King Kong

1906 Birthday - Robert Brown Black, British diplomat/gov, Hong Kong

1904 Birthday - Bruce Cabot, born in Carlsbad, New Mexico, actor, Diamonds are Forever, King Kong

1902 Birthday - Jeno Takacs, born in Cinfalva, Hungary, composer, studied with Joseph Marx, Paul Weigarten, professor of piano, composition at University of Manila in the Philippines, gave concerts in China, Japan, Hong Kong

1898 Event - China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years

1898 Event - U.S. fleet under commodore Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines

1892 Event - Entire Hong Kong national cricket team, die in shipwreck off Taiwan

1890 Birthday - Robert Armstrong, Saginaw, Michigan, actor, Mighty Joe Young, King Kong

1887 Event - British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong

1875 Birthday - Frank Reicher, Munich Germany, actor, King Kong, Son of Kong

1843 Event - Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony

1841 Event - Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain

1841 Event - China cedes Hong Kong to British

1839 Event - British capture Hong Kong from China

1780 Event - Danish national anthem "Kong Kristian...," 1st sung

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