22 chronicle entries dated 19 November, spanning 14 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、香港天文台總部、印度新德里、屯門稔灣、大嶼山、深圳后海灣、上海Places appearing in these entries (not an exhaustive list of where events happened).
同日條目
Chronicle entries dated 19 November (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/1879#〈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/1959#〈條目編號〉
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On 19 November 1879, the Hong Kong Government announced that the fines and brothel licence fees under the Contagious Diseases Ordinance of 1867 would be set aside from general revenue to fund a venereal disease hospital serving only police officers and civil servants.
Records show that on 19 November 1959, the Hong Kong Observatory Headquarters recorded 31.8 degrees Celsius, the absolute maximum temperature for November.
On 19 November 1967, TVB's Jade and Pearl channels began broadcasting on the same day, making the company the first television station in Hong Kong to produce and broadcast colour programmes.
MacLehose assumed office as the 25th Governor of Hong Kong on 19 November 1971 and served until 8 May 1982, becoming the longest-serving governor in Hong Kong's history.
On 19 November 1975, the commission of inquiry published its report, agreeing to a thirty per cent increase in telephone service charges with effect from 1 March of that year.
Besides advocating lower charges for telephone installation and relocation, the report also listed thirty-four recommendations, most of which were adopted by the Hong Kong Government.
On 19 November 1979, a receiving system manufactured by McDonald and Ditwiler United Ltd. was officially commissioned, receiving GMS high-resolution cloud images 24 hours a day.
On 19 November 1982, the Hong Kong team went to New Delhi, India, to take part in the 9th Asian Games, winning its first medals in windsurfing, with one silver and one bronze.
On 19 November 2007, the Hong Kong Archaeological Research Office began a two-month archaeological excavation at the Luk Keng Village site on Lantau Island, during which remains from the Bronze Age and the Tang dynasty were found.
Bronze-casting stone moulds found in Hong Kong archaeological discoveries coexisted with geometric stamped pottery in strata of the Xia and Shang periods, proving that local bronze-casting technology already existed at that time.
On 19 November 2008, the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce opened a branch of its Asia-Pacific Secretariat in Hong Kong.
On 19 November 2010, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region began levying a Special Stamp Duty, under which any residential property resold within two years of purchase was subject to a tax rate of 5% to 15%.
On 19 November 2010, the Hong Kong SAR Government implemented the Special Stamp Duty for the first time, requiring sellers who resold residential properties within 24 months of purchase to pay a tax at rates of 5% to 15%.
In response to the above anti-speculation property measures, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority required banks to strengthen risk management for residential mortgage loans, with the loan-to-value ratio for properties valued at HK$6 million or above reduced by one-tenth.
On 19 November 2015, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre established a representative office in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, becoming the first international arbitration institution to set up a presence on the mainland.
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.