27 chronicle entries dated 5 September, 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.
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.
涉及地點般鹹道、香港、九龍、香港、香港天文台總部、維多利亞港、大埔滘、大老山、葵涌、利舞臺、西貢Places appearing in these entries (not an exhaustive list of where events happened).
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Chronicle entries dated 5 September (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/1893#〈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/1963#〈條目編號〉
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On 5 September 1893, Hong Kong's first nurse training school, the Alice Memorial Hospital Affiliated Nurses' Training School, officially began operation beside the Alice Memorial Hospital on Bonham Road.
On 5 September 1955, the first two diesel-electric locomotives introduced by the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation began operation, named "Sir Alexander" and "Lady Maurine" respectively.
On 5 September 1957, the 8th session of the World Health Organization's Western Pacific Regional Committee was held in Hong Kong, with representatives from 14 countries taking part.
The Education Department announced on 5 September 1961 that the Primary School Leaving Examination would be discontinued in 1962 and replaced by the Secondary School Entrance Examination.
Records show that on 5 September 1963, the Hong Kong Observatory Headquarters recorded 35.2 degrees Celsius, the highest temperature for September since records began.
During the passage of Typhoon Ruby over Hong Kong on 5 September 1964, the Hong Kong Observatory headquarters recorded the year's lowest hourly mean sea-level pressure reading of 971.0 hectopascals.
On 5 September 1964, Typhoon Ruby struck Hong Kong, and the Observatory issued the No. 10 hurricane signal, which lasted about four hours, causing 38 deaths, 6 missing, and over 300 injured, while 20 ocean-going vessels and 314 fishing boats were damaged.
Modern Terminals Limited was founded in 1969 and was responsible for building and managing Kwai Chung Berth No. 1; the berth opened on 5 September 1972 at a cost of about $150 million, Hong Kong's first modern berth able to accommodate standard container ships, and on the same day the container ship Tokyo Bay arrived and berthed there.
On 5 September 1978, the Corruption Prevention Department of the Independent Commission Against Corruption published a report entitled "The Question of Accountability of Public Servants".
The report proposed that heads of government departments should bear civil liability for corruption offences committed by civil servants under their purview.
On 5 September 1981, Po Leung Kuk and TVB jointly held the fundraising programme "Starlight Shines Brightly" at the Lee Theatre, broadcast live throughout on TVB Jade.
On 5 September 1998, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority guaranteed to licensed banks that the US dollar could be exchanged at the fixed rate of HK$7.75 per US dollar.
On 5 September 2003, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region publicly announced that the national security-related legislative work would be postponed.
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.