18 chronicle entries dated 20 December, spanning 15 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.
涉及地點寶雲道、香港、香港、廣州、北京、大嶼山芝麻灣、赤柱監獄、英國、藍田、美國波士頓、荔枝角、中環碼頭、立法會Places appearing in these entries (not an exhaustive list of where events happened).
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Chronicle entries dated 20 December (oldest first)
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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/1948#〈條目編號〉
《香港志·自然》環境保護與生態保育 Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Environmental Protection and Conservation
APAHong Kong Chronicles Institute. Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Environmental Protection and Conservation (p. 〈頁碼〉). Accessed 2026-10-18. /chronicle/archive/1972#〈條目編號〉
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From 20 to 27 December 1904, Lao Jixun carried out observations at Bowen Road, measuring a magnetic declination of 0 degrees 13.8 minutes east and a total intensity of 43,210 nT.
On 20 December 1948, the Hong Kong military tribunal completed the final phase of its trials of Japanese war criminals; the trials lasted over two years and eight months from start to finish, handling 46 cases in total, with 21 of the 122 defendants sentenced to death, 2 to life imprisonment, 85 to imprisonment ranging from six months to twenty years, and 14 acquitted.
On 20 December 1966, Governor David Trench announced that the Hong Kong Government and the British Government had reached an agreement that over the following four years annual defence expenditure would rise from $40 million to $80 million, about one-third of total expenditure.
On 20 December 1972, the Hong Kong Government announced that it had commissioned the British firms Grima Warner and Parsons Brown to conduct a study to assess the suitability of establishing an oil refinery on Lamma Island.
A riot occurred at the Vietnamese refugee camp at Chi Ma Wan on Lantau Island, where refugees attacked Correctional Services Department staff and set fires within the camp area.
On 20 December 1991, the residential project at Sceneway Garden was formally handed over for occupation, comprising 17 blocks providing a total of 4,112 residential units.
On 20 December 1995, arrests were made in a cigarette smuggling case in Boston, United States, involving HK$8.5 billion, and the person arrested was Lui Kin-hong, a senior executive of British American Tobacco in Hong Kong.
On 20 December 2001, Gary Cheng Kai-nam was convicted on two charges, namely accepting advantages and misconduct in public office, and was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment.
On 20 December 2001, the Housing Department completed the demolition of the Lai Chi Kok cottage area, marking the end of all cottage area demolition works in Hong Kong.
On 20 December 2003, the Kowloon-Canton Railway West Rail Line officially opened, spanning 30.5 kilometres with nine stations along the route, connecting Tuen Mun in the New Territories with the Sham Shui Po area of West Kowloon.
On 20 December 2007, during a Legislative Council meeting, Member Cheung Hok-ming moved and debated a motion on whether a geopark should be established in eastern New Territories.
On 20 December 2009, the Stonecutters Bridge opened to traffic, linking Stonecutters Island and Container Terminal 9 on Tsing Yi Island as the last section of Route 8 to be commissioned.
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.