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On This Day | In 1961, Typhoon Alice claims 4 lives in Hong Kong – SCMP archive

South China Morning Post · · 167 words · By SCMP
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“In 1961, Typhoon Alice claims 4 lives in Hong Kong”
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The claim is explicitly stated in an SCMP 'On This Day' article. However, no other independent news sources or Wikipedia entries provided in the evidence confirm this specific event for 1961; other results discuss different years or different typhoons.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 1964 Pacific typhoon season was the most active tropical cyclone season recorded globally, with a total of 44 tropical storms forming. It had no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1964, but mos…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Pacific_typhoon_season
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 1979 Pacific typhoon season was a slightly below-average season in terms of tropical cyclone activity, with only 24 named storms, 12 typhoons, and 4 super typhoons developing. However, it featured…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Pacific_typhoon_season
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From 2019 until 2020, protests were held in Hong Kong in response to the Hong Kong government's introduction of a bill to amend the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance in regard to extradition. It was the la…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–2020_Hong_Kong_protests
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“a typhoon that hit the city injured around 20”
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The SCMP article explicitly states that the number of people injured during Typhoon Alice was around 20. Other search results discuss different storms (e.g., Tropical Storm Wipha), so there is no independent corroboration.
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web search NEUTRAL — Typhoon took four lives. Alice created two new records. By SCMP Staff. This article was first published on May 21, 1961. The typhoon which struck Hongkong on Friday took four lives, but the damage don…
https://www.scmp.com/weather/hong-kong/article/3354106/1961-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Twenty people – eight men and 12 women – sought medical treatment on Wednesday as tropical storm Wipha battered Hong Kong. On Wednesday, a Typhoon Signal No 8 warning was issued by the Hong Kong Obser…
https://asiatimes.com/2019/08/twenty-injured-as-tropical-sto…
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web search NEUTRAL — ‘Massive’ explosion injures a dozen people in Queens. An explosion triggered a large five-alarm fire at a Queens home that injured 12 people, including eight NYPD officers, authorities said.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/weather/video/fullerton-ocean…
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“four – two women and two children – being killed”
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The SCMP article specifies that the four people killed were two women and two children. No other independent sources in the provided evidence confirm this detail.
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web search NEUTRAL — The 1964 Pacific typhoon season was the most active tropical cyclone season recorded globally, with a total of 39 tropical storms forming. It had no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1964...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Pacific_typhoon_season
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web search NEUTRAL — Typhoon took four lives. Alice created two new records. By SCMP Staff.The number of people injured during Typhoon Alice was around 20, but the majority of them were not seriously hurt. The four person…
https://www.scmp.com/weather/hong-kong/article/3354106/1961-…
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web search NEUTRAL — At least 33 people have been killed and 16 remain missing after Typhoon Lekima struck the coast of Shanghai in southern China. Rescuers use a boat to evacuate an elderly woman people and carry her to …
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-7346409/More-30-peopl…
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“This article was first published on May 21, 1961”
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The SCMP 'On This Day' archive explicitly states that the article was first published on May 21, 1961. This is a self-referential fact from the source, with no external corroboration provided.
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web search NEUTRAL — By SCMP Staff. This article was first published on May 21, 1961. The typhoon which struck Hongkong on Friday took four lives, but the damage done was negligible compared to the havoc wrought by the se…
https://www.scmp.com/weather/hong-kong/article/3354106/1961-…
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web search NEUTRAL — # Network Security # Publish Year:2021 # Articles On Cyber Attacks.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235248472…
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web search NEUTRAL — Some areas of Taiwan may experience extreme downpours, with precipitation reaching up to 230mm. China has a four-tier, color-coded weather warning system for typhoons, with red representing the most s…
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-renews-yel…
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“A boy was swept into the sea by waves and drowned. His body was found on the seashore off Hoi Tan Street, Shamshuipo.”
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The SCMP article provides this specific detail about a boy drowning and his body being found off Hoi Tan Street, Shamshuipo. No other provided evidence corroborates this specific incident.
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web search NEUTRAL — Typhoon Alice was a typhoon that brought severe flooding to Guam during the latter part of the 1953 Pacific typhoon season.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Alice_(1953)
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web search NEUTRAL — This is how they died: A boy was swept into the sea by waves and drowned. His body was found on the seashore off Hoi Tan Street, Shamshuipo.
https://www.scmp.com/weather/hong-kong/article/3354106/1961-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Bodies of three women recovered from water off Brighton beach in large-scale operation.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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