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The Japanese starts invading
36 Japanese flighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese 23rd cross the Sham Chun Shan river -
Evacuation of New Territories
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Evacuation of Kowloon
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Japanese demand surrender
But surrender was ignored -
Japanese starts bombing
Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern defenses -
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 Stanley
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Japanese attacks South Hong Kong island
The royal rifles, capture Stanley fort, St.Stephens hospital, Mt Cameron captured and Malty calls Governor Young to surrender -
Over the month 10000 women are raped
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Hong Kong Dollars was replaced by Japanese Military Yen
The exchange rate was fixed at two Hong Kong Dollars to one military yen -
Police recruited to be Kempeitai
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Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland
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Interment of most 'white' Allied civilians
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The Hong Kong Kowloon brigade was established from the Guangdong people's anti Japanese Guerilla force led by Cai Guo Liang
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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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The US dropped an atomic bomb called the 'Enola Gay' on Hiroshima, killing over 70000 instantaneously
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Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagaski
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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 that day
This day was declared as the "Liberation Day" and had been a public holiday in Hong Kong until 1967 -
Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong;s colonial secretary, declares himself interim governor
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British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt formally accepts the Japanese surrender and Mark Young resumes as Governor
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General Takashi Sakai was tried as a war criminal and executed in the afternoon