13 chronicle entries dated 17 February, spanning 12 years. Each records only time, place and people or organisations, with the source file and page number. Entries from volumes not yet published are not filled in, and no nearby date is substituted.
同一日日子相同、年份唔同 —— 唔一定同一件事。 · 志錄大事 · 全年份索引 · 呢日嘅 JSONSame calendar day, different years — not necessarily the same event.
涉及地點香港、瑪嘉烈醫院、北京、山頂Places appearing in these entries (not an exhaustive list of where events happened).
同日條目
Chronicle entries dated 17 February (oldest first)
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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)
APAHong Kong Chronicles Institute (2020). Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview and Chronology (c. 5000 BC–2017, over 6,500 events) (p. 〈頁碼〉). /chronicle/archive/1949#〈條目編號〉
《香港志·自然》自然環境 Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Natural Environment
APAHong Kong Chronicles Institute. Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Natural Environment (p. 〈頁碼〉). Accessed 2026-10-18. /chronicle/archive/2003#〈條目編號〉
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On 17 February 1949, Ta Kung Pao published an editorial entitled 'Optimistic about Hong Kong's Future', which spoke of friendly Sino-British relations and took a favourable view of Hong Kong's future development.
On 17 February 1956, the Hong Kong Life Saving Society was established; in the same year, its founding member Kwok Hon-ming was awarded the highest diploma by the Royal Life Saving Society UK, becoming the first person in Hong Kong to obtain this qualification.
The English Schools Foundation was established under an ordinance promulgated on 17 February 1967, and subsequently managed a number of international schools using English as the medium of instruction.
On 17 February 1977, the Hong Kong Government enacted an ordinance and established the Hong Kong Industrial Estates Corporation under it, a statutory body.
On 17 February 1985, Princess Margaret Hospital confirmed that the suspected AIDS patient had died, and clinical diagnosis determined the cause of death to be AIDS.
During a meeting with the drafting committee members, Deng Xiaoping pointed out that the drafting task of the Basic Law had been entirely completed at that moment.
On 17 February 2017, former Chief Executive Donald Tsang was prosecuted by the ICAC, and the jury found him guilty of one count of misconduct in public office.
The archive holds 36501 entries, of which 8766 are dated to an exact day — those are the only ones used here. Entries dated only to a month or a year are never forced into a day. Coverage reflects published volumes only; missing years are not filled in.