20 chronicle entries dated 22 August, 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、香港大學、橫瀾島、沙田大老山觀音山、沙田大老山附近觀音山、沙田大老山、港島西、濕地公園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/1919#〈條目編號〉
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On 22 August 1919, a typhoon struck Hong Kong head-on and the Hong Kong Observatory issued Hurricane Signal No. 7; several steamships ran aground and about 500 to 600 Chinese junks sank.
On 22 August 1919, the Observatory hoisted the hurricane signal due to an approaching typhoon, and the signal remained in force for 19 hours 34 minutes.
On 22 August 1971, the University of Hong Kong held the 'Hong Kong – Overseas Joint Condemnation Conference for the Defence of Diaoyutai', co-organised by four Defend Diaoyutai groups, which issued a joint statement affirming their stance; after the meeting, over fifty participants demonstrated outside the US Consulate General in Hong Kong to protest against the US using 'one China, one Taiwan' and 'two Chinas' rhetoric to divide China.
The Occupational Safety and Health Council was established on 22 August 1988 under an ordinance enacted in 1988, with duties including promoting occupational safety and health awareness in the community.
China Airlines flight CI642, which took off from Bangkok for Hong Kong, crashed during landing, causing 3 deaths and 203 injuries, the first fatal air crash after the new airport began operation.
On 22 August 2005, a landslide occurred near Kwun Yam Shan by Tate's Cairn in Sha Tin, with a total volume of about 2,350 cubic metres, of which 1,000 cubic metres turned into a debris flow that rushed down to a catchwater 330 metres away.
Typhoon Nuri caused 2 deaths and over 112 injuries, and 122 cases of fallen trees and 39 incidents involving the collapse of dangerous signboards or scaffolding were recorded.
On 22 August 2012, Hong Kong commissioned the Hong Kong Island West Drainage Tunnel, whose length and diameter are both the largest among local facilities of its kind.
On 22 August 2017, Typhoon Hato struck Hong Kong at super typhoon intensity, and the Observatory headquarters recorded 36.6 degrees, a record high temperature since records began in 1884.
Records show that on 22 August 2017, the Wetland Park recorded 39.0 degrees Celsius, the highest temperature recorded in Hong Kong since the commissioning of automatic weather stations.
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.