18 chronicle entries dated 23 July, 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.
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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/1954#〈條目編號〉
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From 23 July 1906, 24-hour sea-area weather forecasts extending east to the Taiwan Strait and west to Hainan Island were included in the Meteorological Records of the China Coast.
On 23 July 1954, a Cathay Pacific "Air Master" passenger aircraft on a flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong was shot down by two PLA military aircraft while flying over Hainan Island; the cause was that the aircraft was mistakenly identified as a military aircraft of the Taiwan authorities, resulting in ten deaths.
On 23 July 1971, the Hong Kong Government announced an ordinance taking effect on 24 March 1972; following the reorganisation of the Hong Kong Technical College, the Hong Kong Polytechnic was established to train talent needed by industry and commerce.
On 23 July 1972, the police Special Branch arrested two Chinese businessmen on suspicion of involvement in Soviet espionage, of whom Ho Hung-yan was detained at Victoria Remand Centre; on 25 August of the same year, the police announced that a Soviet spy ring had been broken up and two Soviets arrested; on 14 November, the Hong Kong Government deported Ho Hung-yan.
On 23 July 1987, the Housing Authority was restructured into an independent policy-making body with greater flexibility in the planning, development and financing of public housing.
The restructured Housing Authority was responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Long Term Housing Strategy and for coordinating with private developers on housing supply in Hong Kong.
The restructured Housing Authority continued to receive financial support from the Hong Kong Government, with the Housing Department responsible for implementation, and its chairmanship was no longer held by a civil servant.
On 23 July 1994, a landslide occurred below Block D of Kwun Lung Lau in Kennedy Town, causing a retaining wall to collapse and resulting in 5 deaths and 3 injuries.
Heavy rain on 23 July caused the retaining wall at Kwun Lung Lau in Kennedy Town to collapse, burying several pedestrians under the mud and rocks that poured down.
On 23 July 1998, the Housing Authority announced the launch of the Rebuilding Home Ownership Scheme, providing mortgage subsidies for the purchase of Home Ownership Scheme flats to public rental housing tenants affected by the Comprehensive Redevelopment Programme.
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region enacted the Chinese Medicine Ordinance and established the Chinese Medicine Council to regulate the registration and practice of Chinese medicine practitioners and to regulate the use, manufacture and sale of Chinese medicines.
On 23 July 2004, the Hong Kong SAR Government announced the enactment of an education amendment ordinance requiring subsidised schools to establish incorporated management committees on or before 1 July 2009.
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.