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(August 9th, 1945 - Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki,, 30…
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August 9th, 1945 - Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki,
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September 1941 - Winston Churchill realizes that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements.
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8am December the 8th 1941 - 36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese 23rd cross the Sham Chun Shan river
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Dec 17 1941- Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern coastal defenses
At 22:30 hrs, December 18th 1941 - Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island
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January 1942 - Over the month10,000 women are raped
January 1942 - Hong Kong Dollar was outlawed and replaced by the Japanese Military Yen. The exchange rate was fixed at 2 Hong Kong dollars to one military yen.
January 21, 1942 - Internment of most 'white' Allied civilians
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February 1942 - the HK-Kowloon brigade (港九大隊) was established from the Guangdong People's anti-Japanese Guerilla force led by Cai Guo-liang (蔡國梁)
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August 6th, 1945 - the US dropped an atomic bomb called the “Enola Gay” on Hiroshima, killing over 70,000 instantaneously.
6 September 1945 - British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourts formally accepts the Japanese surrender. Mark Young resumes as Governor.
30 September 1946 - General Takashi Sakai, is tried as a war criminal and executed on the afternoon of.
The "30 August" was declared as the "Liberation Day" (Chinese: 重光紀念日), and had been a public holiday in Hong Kong until 1967.