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September 1941 - Winston Churchill realizes that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements.
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November 16 1941- Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert
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8am December the 8th - 36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese23rd cross the Sham Chun Shan river
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Dec 11 - Evacuation of New Territories
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Dec 12 - Evacuation of Kowloon
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Dec 13 - Japanese demand surrender (surrender is ignored)
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Dec 17 - Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern coastaldefenses
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At 22:30 hrs, December 18th - Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island
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Dec 19th - Grenadiers Retake mount Butler with heavy casualties
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Dec 20th - HK Comanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured
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Dec 23rd - Royal rifles Retreat to Stanely
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Dec 25th 5:00am - Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort
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Dec 25th 6:00am - Japanese attack st. Stephens hospital
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Dec 25th 3:15pm - Mt Cameron Captured and Malty calls for Governor Young to surrender
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January 1942 - police recruited to be Kempeitai
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January 1942 - Over the month10,000 women are raped
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January 1942 - 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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January 1942 - Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland
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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 GuangdongPeople's anti-Japanese Guerilla force led by Cai Guo-liang (蔡國梁)
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April 1942 - streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese.
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April 1942 - food rationing begins
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July 1942 - The British Army Aid Group was formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride.
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June 1943 - Public utilities handed over to Japanese control
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August 6th, 1945 - the US dropped an atomic bomb called the “Enola Gay” on Hiroshima, killingover 70,000 instantaneously.
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August 9th, 1945 - Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki,
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15 August 1945 - Japan finally surrenders.
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30 August 1945 - 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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1 September 1945 - Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong's colonial secretary, declares himself interimgovernor.
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6 September 1945 - British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourts formally acceptsthe Japanese surrender. Mark Young resumes as Governor.
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30 September 1946 - General Takashi Sakai, is tried as a war criminal and executed on theafternoon of.