Are there fireworks on July 1st?

[Load Toad]

That's just it - there is 'a firework'. Just not many.

[PDLM]

It's not. National day is 1st October.

[Load Toad]

Come on - can't you find some body who has a National Day on July 1st and we can go and throw sparklers off the roof of Star House. And tie Bangers t' cats tails.*













Yes - we can celebrate Canada's National Day.















Can't say that causes me to get moist but it's been a tough couple of weeks - any port in a storm an' all that.









* I wouldn't do that really. Honest.

[kombuchakid]

well n0t until s0me0ne p0sts a 2009 firew0rks vide0

[Load Toad]

But were they not to mark the 10th anniversary of the return of HK to the Dirtland? That was a special event - there wasn't any last year.

[beachball]

But were they not to mark the 10th anniversary of the return of HK to the Dirtland? That was a special event - there wasn't any last year.

Exactly right.

[climber07]

I think there is a lot of confusion around July 1st fireworks and the government / tourism board has not helped to make this any clearer.

To my knowledge, there has only been 3 "proper" July 1st firework displays in HK.

1. July 1, 1997 - Handover Day
2. July 1, 2002 - 5 year Anniversary of the Handover Day
3. July 1, 2007 - 10 year Anniversary of the Handover Day.

However, to make things confusing in 2006 the Tourism Commission decided to enhance the nightly Symphony of Lights show with pyrotechnic displays (these fireworks were fired from several skyscrapers in Central) on June 24 and 25 and July 1 and 2.

Thus, as there were some kind of "fireworks" on July 1st for 2 years in a row 2006 & 2007, some people falsely assumed that these were an annual event. In 2008, due to the unfortunate events of the Sheshuan Earthquake, many places canceled festivals and fireworks throughout China (including Hong Kong Disneyland). Thus, many people again wrongly assumed that that was the reason the fireworks did not occur in 2008.

Just for giggles, I called the tourism board this morning and verbally confirmed that there will not be any fireworks tomorrow night. However, the ones on the National Day (October 1st) should be very impressive given the 60 year milestone.

Based on the past events we may assume that the next July 1st fireworks could occur in 2012 to mark the 15 years anniversary of the handover.

[timklip]

there will also be a big harbour show including fireworks on the opening night of East Asian Games (Dec.5 ?)

[Load Toad]

Let's join hands to thank the Tourism Board for their consistency.

[Brown_By_Nature]

I think there is gonna be some fireworks in my toilet pretty soon after all the spicy mexican food I had last night.