30 chronicle entries dated 18 June, spanning 17 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.
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涉及地點香港、港島、摩星嶺、新界、銅鑼灣、香港觀塘翠屏道、港島半山區寶珊道、香港觀塘曉光街、秀茂坪、觀塘、香港半山區旭龢道、九龍秀茂坪、港島半山寶珊道、香港半山區寶珊道、北京Places appearing in these entries (not an exhaustive list of where events happened).
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《香港志·自然》自然環境 Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Natural Environment
APAHong Kong Chronicles Institute (2020). Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview and Chronology (c. 5000 BC–2017, over 6,500 events) (p. 〈頁碼〉). /chronicle/archive/1925#〈條目編號〉
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On 18 June 1874, the British geomagnetist Sabine averaged the observation data of Belcher, Collinson and von Schätzer, whose readings were taken in 1843, 1851 and 1858 respectively; on this basis Sabine concluded that Hong Kong's magnetic declination was 0 degrees 37 minutes east and its magnetic inclination 30 degrees 17 minutes.
On 18 June 1925, various trade unions in Hong Kong held a joint conference of all Hong Kong labour organisations, during which the Hong Kong General Labour Union was formed and a decision was made to launch a general strike in response to the nationwide support movement arising from the Shanghai May Thirtieth Massacre; subsequently, the shipping, printing and tram industries were the first to stop work, with other industries following one after another, involving 250,000 participants, many of whom travelled to Canton in groups.
On 18 June 1950, leftist unions and school organisations formed a tour group of about 150 people for an outing on Hong Kong Island; when they performed the yangge dance outside the Mount Davis refugee area, a clash broke out with pro-Kuomintang refugees, injuring more than sixty people, known as the Yangge Dance Incident.
On 18 June 1963, at the junction of Yee Wo Street and Leighton Road in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong's first footbridge spanning a carriageway for pedestrians was officially opened.
On 18 June 1972, the Hong Kong Observatory recorded 232.6 mm of rainfall in a single day; from 16 to 18 June the cumulative total was 652.3 mm, the highest three-day rainfall since 1889.
On 18 June 1972, torrential rain caused flooding that killed 149 people across Hong Kong; the event is known as the "618 Rainstorm" and the "1972 Rainstorm", and remains the deadliest rainstorm in Hong Kong's history.
On the night of 18 June 1972, multiple landslides occurred around Po Shan Road on the Mid-Levels of Hong Kong Island; Kotewall Court was destroyed by the debris flow and the top four floors of the unoccupied Park View Court were sheared off, resulting in 67 deaths and 20 injuries.
At 1:10 p.m. on 18 June 1972, a landslide occurred at Hiu Kwong Street in Kwun Tong, and the collapsed mud and rocks buried the local squatter area, ultimately causing 71 deaths and 60 injuries.
On the morning of 18 June 1972, a landslide completely buried 78 wooden huts in the Sau Mau Ping B-grade resettlement area, while Blocks 8 and 9 of the Kwun Tong New District were also struck by landslides, the two incidents together causing 71 deaths and 60 injuries.
A mudslide mixed with debris surged towards Kotewall Court on Kotewall Road, and the building collapsed immediately, also affecting an unoccupied building below the slope, ultimately causing 67 deaths and 20 injuries.
A rainstorm on 18 June 1972 caused landslides in Sau Mau Ping, Kowloon, and Po Shan Road on Hong Kong Island, resulting in over a hundred people injured or killed.
At 8:55 p.m. on 18 June 1972, a slope failure occurred at Po Shan Road in the Mid-Levels on Hong Kong Island, a garage of a residence was destroyed by mud and rocks, and a six-storey building on Conduit Road was likewise completely destroyed.
On 18 June 1974, a Han dynasty-style sailing ship named "Tai Chi" departed from Hong Kong after being completed locally, planning to cross the Pacific Ocean to South America to investigate whether there had been contact between ancient China and the Americas.
On 18 June 1981, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, in cooperation with the Hong Kong Government, began a joint review of Hong Kong's education system.
On 18 June 1985, the list of members of the Hong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee was approved by a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Sixth National People's Congress, with the committee comprising 59 members.
From 18 June 1993, the first FIVB World Grand Prix Finals were held over three consecutive days at the Hong Kong Coliseum, with Cuba defeating China to win the title.
On 18 June 2000, the Hong Kong Journalists Association and three other press organisations jointly formulated a code of professional conduct for journalists.
On 18 June 2003, the Hong Kong legislature passed a motion of thanks on the Central People's Government's support for Hong Kong's handling of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome outbreak.
On 18 June 2007, Bank of China (Hong Kong) was appointed as the clearing bank responsible for operating the renminbi Real Time Gross Settlement system launched by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.
On 18 June 2015, the Legislative Council voted on a motion submitted by the SAR Government concerning amendments to the method for selecting the Chief Executive in 2017, which was ultimately vetoed because the number of affirmative votes fell short of two-thirds of all members.
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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.