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Winston Churchill realizes that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements.
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Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert
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36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese23rd cross the Sham Chun Shan river
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Evacuation of New Territories
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Evacuation of Kowloon
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Japanese demand surrender (surrender is ignored)
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Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern coastaldefenses
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Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island
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Grenadiers Retake mount Butler with heavy casualties
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HK Comanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured
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Royal rifles Retreat to Stanely
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5:00am - Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort
6:00am - Japanese attack st. Stephens hospital
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10,000 women are raped over the month and Hong Kong Dollar was outlawed and replaced by the Japanese Military Yen. Theexchange rate was fixed at 2 Hong Kong dollars to one military yen.
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police recruited to be Kempeitai
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Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland
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Internment of most 'white' Allied civilians
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The HK-Kowloon brigade (港九大隊) was established from the GuangdongPeople's anti-Japanese Guerilla force led by Cai Guo-liang (蔡國梁)
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Streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese.
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food rationing begins
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The British Army Aid Group was formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride.
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Public utilities handed over to Japanese control
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US dropped an atomic bomb called the “Enola Gay” on Hiroshima, killing over 70,000 instantaneously.
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Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki
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Japan finally surrenders.
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Hong Kong was handed over by Imperial Japanese Army to the Royal Navy on• The "30 August" was declared as the "Liberation Day" (Chinese: 重光紀念日), and had been apublic holiday in Hong Kong until 1967.
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Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong's colonial secretary, declares himself interimgovernor.
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British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourts formally acceptsthe Japanese surrender. Mark Young resumes as Governor.
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General Takashi Sakai, is tried as a war criminal and executed on theafternoon of.
