Timeline Thursday 25 December 1941

Thursday 25 December 1941

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Events on Thursday 25 December 1941 1

1941 Battle of Hong Kong The British colony falls to Japan on Christmas Day Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong hours after Pearl Harbor, took the New Territories and Kowloon, and then landed on Hong Kong Island. The British governor surrendered on 25 December, remembered in Hong Kong as "Black Christmas".