37 chronicle entries dated 24 May, spanning 20 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.
涉及地點中環、香港荃灣、東京、香港、大埔林村、北京、港督府、旺角、法國康城、慈雲山沙田坳道鳳凰食水配水庫、將軍澳澳頭村、新界Places appearing in these entries (not an exhaustive list of where events happened).
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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/1923#〈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: Environmental Protection and Conservation (p. 〈頁碼〉). Accessed 2026-10-18. /chronicle/archive/2005#〈條目編號〉
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On 24 May 1923, the Cenotaph in Central was unveiled to commemorate soldiers who died in the First World War, and it was later also used to remember soldiers who fell defending Hong Kong during the Second World War.
China Dyeing Works Group Limited was founded by Cha Chi-ming on 24 May 1949, and in the same year established a dyeing and bleaching factory on Castle Peak Road in Tsuen Wan.
On 24 May 1958, the Hong Kong team competed at the third Asian Games in Tokyo, winning 1 silver and 1 bronze; table tennis and shooting were the two events in which Hong Kong first won medals.
On 24 May 1963, Leung Wai-lam, in his capacity as Director of the New China News Agency Hong Kong Branch, put forward to the Hong Kong Government several ideas for importing water from the mainland to Hong Kong, including pumping Dongjiang water via pipelines to the Shenzhen Reservoir for onward supply to Hong Kong.
On 24 May 1964, Lam Kei-ping, a villager of Lam Tsuen in Tai Po, first shot and killed Police Sergeant Lam Yik-yan with a fowling piece and then resisted arrest; about 170 police officers arrived to surround him and Lam Kei-ping was eventually shot dead, with one superintendent, one sergeant and one constable killed and 12 other officers injured in the incident.
On 24 May 1967, the Hong Kong Government implemented an emergency regulation on seditious broadcasting content, with offenders liable to a maximum fine of $50,000 and imprisonment for ten years.
On 24 and 27 May 1967, Zhou Enlai met twice with heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Hong Kong and Macao Work Committee to discuss matters relating to Hong Kong, stressing that leftists must follow the central policy and adhere to the principles of being reasonable, advantageous and moderate in their confrontation with the Hong Kong Government.
On 24 May 1968, Government House, completed in 1855, was opened to the public for the first time, limited to the outdoor gardens, with over 46,000 visitors that day.
On 24 May 1972, the report of the commission of inquiry into the fire on the Jumbo Floating Restaurant was released, holding welders, employers and the shipbuilding company responsible and proposing that the Hong Kong Government should amend the law and strengthen regulation, while naming the Marine Department, the Fire Services Department and the Labour Department for inadequate enforcement.
In the afternoon of 24 May 1974, a gunman entered a branch of Po Sang Bank in Mong Kok and robbed it, holding four female and seven male staff members hostage and facing a standoff with police officers who arrived at the scene, and he refused to surrender after persuasion.
On 24 May 1993, the 46th Cannes Film Festival awarded the Palme d'Or for Best Film to "Farewell My Concubine", the first time a Chinese-language film had received this honour.
On 24 May 1994, the Hong Kong Government appointed Fung Wah-kin as Law Officer (Policy) and Ian Wing-tat Yuen as Director of Public Prosecutions, the first and second Chinese to serve as law officers respectively.
On 24 May 1998, a landslide occurred at the Fung Wong fresh water service reservoir on Sha Tin Pass Road, Tsz Wan Shan, with a total collapsed debris volume of 120 cubic metres and no casualties.
On 24 May 1998, a landslide occurred at Wong Uk, Luk Keng, involving a debris volume of 150 cubic metres, and no one was injured or killed in the incident.
On 24 May 1998, a landslide occurred at the Ting Kau section of Castle Peak Road, with a collapsed debris volume of 200 cubic metres and no casualties.
On 24 May 1998, flooding from the Shenzhen Reservoir caused severe flooding in the northern New Territories, with 42 flooding reports and one landslide report recorded.
On 24 May 1998, the first Legislative Council election recorded a turnout of 53.29% in geographical constituencies, 63.5% in functional constituencies and 98.75% in the Election Committee.
On 24 May 1998, a landslide occurred at Pak Sha Wan Village, Sai Kung, involving a debris volume of 300 cubic metres, and no one was injured or killed in the incident.
On 24 May 1998, the Hong Kong SAR's first Legislative Council election returned 60 members, with 20 seats from geographical constituencies, 30 from functional constituencies and 10 from the Election Committee.
On 24 May 2005, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region released to the public a document on Hong Kong's first sustainable development strategy.
On 24 May 2005, the Hong Kong SAR Government published its first report on the process of community participation in the sustainable development strategy.
On 21 August 2002, the Central Government appointed Gao Siren as Director of the Hong Kong Liaison Office of the Central People's Government, a term that lasted until 24 May 2009.
On 24 May 2010, Albert Ho, as Chairman of the Democratic Party, together with Emily Lau and Cheung Man-kwong, held talks with Li Gang, Feng Wei and Liu Chunhua at the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government.
It was the first time since its founding that the Democratic Party sent representatives to meet officials of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong SAR.
On 24 May 2013, the Hong Kong Institute of Acoustics and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University co-organised a joint research, evaluation and development seminar on the application of innovative building design to reduce noise.
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.