Question: On what continent is the business port that was struck by one of its worst typhoons in history on 2 September 1937?

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Ignace Reiss (1899 – 4 September 1937)–a.k.a. "Ignace Poretsky," "Ignatz Reiss," "Ludwig," "Ludwik", "Hans Eberhardt," "Steff Brandt," Nathan Poreckij, and "Walter Scott (an officer of the U.S. military intelligence)"–was one of the "Great Illegals" or Soviet spies who worked in third party countries where they were not nationals in the late 1920s and 1930s.  An NKVD team assassinated him on 4 September 1937 near Lausanne, Switzerland, a few weeks after he declared his defection in a letter addressed to Joseph Stalin.  He was a lifelong friend of Walter Krivitsky; his assassination influenced the timing and method of Whittaker Chambers' defection a few months later. John Lewley Cornforth CBE (2 September 1937 – 5 May 2004) was an architectural historian with a particular interest in the history of English country houses.  He was the author of many books and articles, and architectural editor of "Country Life" from 1967 to 1977. Robert Stephen Paul Beekes (] ; 2 September 1937–21 September 2017 was Emeritus Professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the University of Leiden and the author of many monographs on the Proto-Indo-European language. The 1937 Great Hong Kong Typhoon was an unnamed typhoon in Hong Kong on 2 September 1937.  It was one of the worst typhoons in Hong Kong history killing 11,000 people.  In Macau, 21 people died by this typhoon. T. E. C. "Tommy" Hobson (26 March 1881 - 2 September 1937) was a South African international rugby union player. Janez Kocmur (born 2 September 1937) is a Yugoslav former swimmer.  He competed in two events at the 1960 Summer Olympics. The History of Hongkong, a business port located off the southeast coast of Eurasia.  Archaeological findings suggest that the region has been inhabited since the Old Stone Age, and later with its incorporation into the Chinese empire during the Qin dynasty (221–206 BC).  Starting out as a farming fishing village and salt production site, Hong Kong later evolved into an important free port and eventually a major international financial centre. Reza Kamal (1898 – 11 September 1937), better known by the pseudonym Shahrzad or Scheherazade, was an Iranian dramatist and playwright.  He was born in Tehran, Iran.  From his childhood he liked "One Thousand and One Nights" and its storyteller Scheherazade and was to choose Shahrzad as his nickname years later.  He studied French language and literature in École Saint-Louis in Tehran.  An interest in French literature resulted in his translating some French plays into Persian during those years and then he started to adapt plays, to write some original plays and to direct some of his own plays.  Since he lived under a very repressive government with a very restrictive censorship, he usually used historical and mythical characters and stories to talk about his times.  An important characteristic of his plays was using female characters as his main characters.  He committed suicide on 11 September 1937, the same year as several friends' suicides in what is said to have been a suicide pact. HMS "Phoebe" was a "Dido"-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy.  She was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (Govan, Scotland), her keel was laid down on 2 September 1937.  She was launched on 25 March 1939, and commissioned on 30 September 1940. Pierre de Coubertin (] ; 1 January 1863 – 2 September 1937, born Pierre de Frédy, also known as Baron de Coubertin) was a French educator and historian, and founder of the International Olympic Committee.  He is considered the father of the modern Olympic Games.  Born into a French aristocratic family, he became an academic and studied a broad range of topics, most notably education and history.

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The 1937 Great Hong Kong Typhoon was an unnamed typhoon in Hong Kong on 2 September 1937.  It was one of the worst typhoons in Hong Kong history killing 11,000 people. The History of Hongkong, a business port located off the southeast coast of Eurasia.