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Description	سليمان هو صدام English: Liberation of Hong Kong in 1945 (香港重光) after the Second World War. Picture taken at the Cenotaph in Central (和平紀念碑), Hong Kong.
Date	1945
Source	Uploaded by Instantnood at 10:28, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC).
Author	Unknown authorUnknown author

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This image was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 29 August 2005. It was captioned as follows:

English: Hong Kong liberated on the last Monday of August in 1945 after the World War II

Other languages:

Asturianu: Entrada de les tropes britániques en Hong Kong el caberu llunes d'agostu de 1945. Na semeya vese'l monumentu dedicau a los muertos nas dos guerres mundiales.

Brezhoneg : Bagadoù Breizh-Veur o tont tre e Hong Kong d'al Lun diwezhañ eus ar miz Eost 1945. Merzout a c'haller war ar skeudenn ar senotaf, monumant e koun ar re varv en daou vrezel bed.

Čeština: Hong Kong byl osvobozen poslední pondělí v srpnu 1945 (druhá světová válka)

Cymraeg: Rhyddhad Hong Kong ar y Dydd Llun olaf ym mis Awst 1945, ar ol gorffen yr Ail Rhyfel y Byd.

Deutsch: Die Befreiung Hongkongs am letzten Montag im August 1945 nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg

English: Hong Kong liberated on the last Monday of August in 1945 after the World War II

Español: Entrada de las tropas británicas en Hong Kong el último lunes de agosto de 1945. En la foto se ve el cenotafio, monumento dedicado a los muertos en las dos guerras mundiales.

Français : Entrée des troupes britanniques à Hong-Kong le dernier lundi d'août 1945. Ici, on voit le cénotaphe, monument dédié aux morts des deux guerres mondiales.

Latina: Hong Kong liberatum est ultimo die Lunae Augusto 1945 post Bellum Mundanum Alterum

Nederlands: Hong Kong bevrijdt op de laatste maandag van augustus 1945 na de Tweede Wereldoorlog

Norsk nynorsk: Hong Kong blei frigjord etter den andre verdskrigen siste måndagen i august.

Polski: Hong Kong wyzwolony w ostatni poniedziałek sierpnia 1945 roku, pod koniec II Wojny Światowej

Português: Hong Kong liberado na última segunda-feira de Agosto em 1945, após a Segunda Guerra Mundial

Slovenščina: Osvoboditev Hong Konga zadnji ponedeljek avgusta 1945 po koncu druge svetovne vojne

Suomi: Brittijoukot saapuvat Hongkongiin elokuussa 1945

Русский: Британские войска входят в Гонконг, последний понедельник августа 1945

日本語：第二次世界大戦終戦直後の香港

中文： 1945年第二次世界大战后香港重光

粵語： 1945 年打完第二次世界大戰之後香港重光

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	14:52, 21 February 2021	1,920 × 1,183 (338 KB)	MowerBreeze	Upload high res of old photo
	14:48, 21 February 2021	749 × 450 (66 KB)	MowerBreeze	Reverted to version as of 17:37, 9 July 2005 (UTC) . The new picture is a different picture and should be uploaded as such; it is NOT simply a higher res version. Additionally, the old picture won POD.
	08:10, 24 January 2021	950 × 740 (173 KB)	Lovewhatyoudo	better resolution
	17:37, 9 July 2005	749 × 450 (66 KB)	Pryku~commonswiki
	10:28, 17 June 2005	749 × 450 (66 KB)	Instantnood~commonswiki	Liberation of Hong Kong in 1945 after the Second World War. Picture taken at the Cenotaph in Central, Hong Kong. Uploaded by Instantnood at ~~~~~