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《香港志·總述 大事記》(公元前 5000 年至 2017 年,共 6,500 多條大事) Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview and Chronology (c. 5000 BC–2017, over 6,500 events)
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Observatory data show that 4 March 1940 was the first recorded hailstorm in Hong Kong, with hail striking parts of Kowloon and the City of Victoria and causing more than 1,000 window panes to break.
On 5 March 1940, Cai Yuanpei died in Hong Kong; during his lifetime he had served as president of the Academia Sinica and chancellor of Peking University, his funeral was held on the 10th of the same month with his coffin placed in the Chinese Permanent Cemetery in Aberdeen, and on 25 March the University of Hong Kong held a memorial ceremony.
On 6 March 1940, Lo Kwee-seong founded the Hong Kong Soya Bean Products Company and set up a factory in Causeway Bay to manufacture soy milk drinks under the trademark Vitasoy.