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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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After Kowloon Reservoir began supplying water in 1906, the groundwater wells in the Yau Ma Tei valley were discontinued, and the reservoir became Kowloon's source of drinking water.
On 16 December 1915, a typhoon shelter in Yau Ma Tei was completed, mainly to allow vessels entering and leaving the waters of the New Territories and West Kowloon to berth and take shelter from wind and waves.
On 25 February 1921, an explosion occurred at the Toi Shan Electric Light Firecracker Factory in Yau Ma Tei, killing 32 people, the highest death toll of any firecracker factory accident in Hong Kong's history.
In 1923, the second-generation Yau Ma Tei Police Station, at the junction of Canton Road and Public Square Street (now Public Square Street) in Kowloon, was completed and began operation, the oldest surviving police station on the Kowloon peninsula.
In May 1923, Kai Tak Motor Car Company Limited launched a bus service carrying passengers between Tsim Sha Tsui, Yau Ma Tei, Hung Hom and Kowloon City.
On 5 November 1923, the Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company Limited was incorporated in Hong Kong and from 1 January 1924 operated passenger ferry services between Central and Sham Shui Po, Mong Kok and Yau Ma Tei.
A cinema in Yau Ma Tei opened in 1930 and remains the only surviving building of its kind in Hong Kong completed before the outbreak of the Second World War.
In January 1930, the Man Chung was fined five dollars by the Marine Court for the nuisance caused by smoke from its funnel; the vessel, belonging to the Hong Kong and Yaumatei Ferry Company, was the first ship to be prosecuted.
In 1931, in District 13, which covered Yau Ma Tei and King's Park, the population density per acre would rise to 382.65 persons if the land used for sports grounds and cemeteries were excluded.
During the Japanese occupation, the authorities implemented Japanisation measures, giving Japanese names to the most densely populated districts of Hong Kong and Kowloon, for example renaming Yau Ma Tei as Katori District and Wan Chai as Kasuga District.
During the Japanese occupation, Kowloon had the largest populations in Sham Shui Po (Aoyama district) and Yau Ma Tei (Katori district), and the smallest in Kowloon Tong (Kashima district).
On 6 September 1946, the Hong Kong Government promulgated a wholesale market order requiring vegetables brought from the New Territories into Kowloon to be transported in the manner designated by the authorities and sold at an official wholesale market; the order took effect from the 15th of the same month, and the authorities subsequently opened the Yau Ma Tei wholesale market to control vegetables.
On 26 October 1946, the Hong Kong government launched an operation against unlicensed hawkers in Portland Street, Yau Ma Tei, during which the Chinese hawker Wong Shui-cheung was kicked to death by an Indian member of the riot squad, triggering large-scale clashes between police and the public; British troops stationed in Hong Kong were called in to assist the police, and the incident left more than ten people injured and 35 arrested.
On 26 October 1946, a riot broke out in Yau Ma Tei; the Hong Kong government called in the British garrison in Hong Kong to help the police restore order, leaving more than ten people injured and 35 arrested.
On 26 October 1946, during an operation against unlicensed hawkers in Portland Street, Yau Ma Tei, an Indian member of the Emergency Unit kicked a Chinese hawker, Wong Shui-cheung, to death, which subsequently triggered serious clashes between police and the public.
In 1952, Chen Haiying founded the Hong Kong Academy of Fine Arts in Yau Ma Tei; it was the first private art school in Hong Kong after the end of the Second World War, with the aim of promoting art education and nurturing art talent.
The yearbook records that Kowloon was customarily divided into districts such as Tsim Sha Tsui, Yau Ma Tei, Mong Kok, Hung Hom, Kowloon City, Kowloon Tong, Sham Shui Po and Lai Chi Kok.
On 11 October 1956, riots and attacks broke out successively in various places in Sham Shui Po, Mong Kok, and Yau Ma Tei; that afternoon, Ernst (Swiss Vice-Consul and Counsellor in Hong Kong) and his wife were travelling by taxi along Tai Po Road when they were surrounded by a rioting crowd, the taxi was overturned and set on fire, Ernst was burned, and his wife and two other persons present were killed.
To prepare for the 1961 population census, the Hong Kong Government conducted trial sample surveys on 24 January 1960 in Yau Ma Tei, Aberdeen, Tai Po, and the western part of Victoria Harbour.
Government statistics show that in 1961 the population density of Yau Ma Tei was 143,187 persons per square kilometre, ranking fourth among all districts in Hong Kong.
On 10 September 1963, Queen Elizabeth Hospital opened in Yau Ma Tei at a cost of HK$70.3 million with 1,338 beds, making it the largest general hospital in the Commonwealth at the time.
On 5 November 1964, a gang drug trafficking case related to Yau Ma Tei concluded; the trial began on 1 September, and ten traffickers were sentenced to six to seven years' imprisonment each.
The Cheung Sha Wan Vegetable Wholesale Market was opened on 8 June 1965 and came into operation on 10 June, replacing the old vegetable wholesale market on Canton Road in Yau Ma Tei.
Under the District Administration Scheme, Kowloon was divided into six districts, covering Yau Ma Tei, Mong Kok, Sham Shui Po, Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon City and Kwun Tong.
On 15 September 1977, a group of boat dwellers of the Yau Ma Tei typhoon shelter held a press conference demanding that the Housing Department arrange rehousing for them in a temporary housing area.
On 18 September 1977, within two days the Independent Commission Against Corruption arrested more than forty former junior police officers of the Yau Ma Tei police district on suspicion of providing protection for drug trafficking at the Yau Ma Tei fruit market.
On 18 November 1977, some boat dwellers of the Yau Ma Tei typhoon shelter separately submitted petitions at Government House and the Colonial Secretariat seeking rehousing in the Cheung Sha Wan temporary housing area.
On 8 December 1977, 200 students arranged by the Hong Kong University Students' Union went to the Yau Ma Tei typhoon shelter to see for themselves the living conditions of boat dwellers.
On 7 April 1978, the Hong Kong Government, in response to the corruption incident at Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market, prosecuted 20 police officers, 4 retired police officers, and 2 customs inspectors on charges of conspiracy.
On 7 January 1979, some boat dwellers from the Yau Ma Tei Typhoon Shelter and their supporters planned to go to Government House to submit a petition, but were stopped by police at the Hong Kong Island exit of the Cross-Harbour Tunnel, and 76 people were arrested.
On 6 August 1979, about 70 boat dwellers living in Yau Ma Tei Typhoon Shelter, having received no reply to their demand for onshore resettlement, went to sit in at the Chatham Road military camp in Tsim Sha Tsui to express their dissatisfaction.
In 1981, there were six district administration sub-districts in Kowloon, namely Yau Ma Tei, Wong Tai Sin, Sham Shui Po, Mong Kok, Kwun Tong and Kowloon City.
In 1988, Kwai Tsing District replaced the names of the former Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi Districts, and Yau Tsim District also became the new name for the Yau Ma Tei area.
On 25 September 1990, the West Kowloon reclamation project officially commenced, with the first construction item being the new Yau Ma Tei typhoon shelter.
In July 1995, the Victoria Harbour (Phase Two) Water Control Zone came into effect, covering Sham Shui Po, Yau Ma Tei, Tsim Sha Tsui and other areas, with the water quality objectives taking effect on the same day.
On 20 November 1996, the Garley Building in Yau Ma Tei was hit by a five-alarm fire that burned for about 23 hours, killing 41 people and injuring 81, including one firefighter among the dead.
The fourth phase of the West Kowloon Corridor between Yau Ma Tei and Lai Chi Kok was completed in 1997, and the entire road was then fully opened to traffic.