1976 in Singapore explained

The following lists events that happened during 1976 in Singapore.

Incumbents

• President

Benjamin Henry Sheares

• Prime Minister

Lee Kuan Yew

Events

April

• 1 April – The Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises (SCORE) is formed to help ex-offenders find employment.

June

• June - The Pearl Bank Apartments is completed, making it Singapore's tallest and densest residential building in Singapore at that time. The Apartments will soon be demolished after being sold to CapitaLand in an en-bloc sale in 2018,^[1] which will be redeveloped into One Pearl Bank by 2023.^[2]

October

• 1 October -
  • The OCBC Centre is officially opened.^[3]
  • The Business Times is launched.

December

• 23 December – The PAP wins all 69 seats in the 1976 General Election.^{[4] [5]}

Date unknown

• The Queensway Shopping Centre is opened as a sports mall. The mall also hosts Singapore's first public escalators.
• St James Power Station was decommissioned and its operations is taken over by Pasir Panjang and Jurong power stations.^[6]

Births

• 20 January – Jamus Lim, Singaporean politician.
• 2 June - Yaw Shin Leong, Singaporean politician (d. 2023).
• 15 July – Desmond Lee, Minister for National Development.
• 2 August – Pritam Singh, Leader of the Opposition and Singaporean politician.
• 2 December – Loretta Chen, theatre director and media personality.

Deaths

• 4 October – Chua Boon Lay, footballer (b. 1902).^[7]

Notes and References

1. News: Pearl Bank Apartments in Outram sold en bloc to CapitaLand for S$728m. 13 February 2018. 13 August 2019. The Straits Times.
2. News: CapitaLand unveils design for One Pearl Bank . 13 August 2019 . CNA . 14 May 2018.
3. News: The 85-year journey of a Singapore bank . 12 August 2019 . The Straits Times. 12 November 2017.
4. Book: Dieter Nohlen. Florian Grotz. Christof Hartmann. Elections in Asia and the Pacific : A Data Handbook: Volume II: South East Asia, East Asia, and the South Pacific. 15 November 2001. OUP Oxford. 978-0-19-924959-6. 254.
5. http://www.singapore-elections.com/general-election/1976/ Parliamentary general election 1976
6. Web site: Goodbye, St James Power Station: 6 things you might not have known about the iconic nightspot. The Straits Times. 7 September 2018. Jan Lee. https://web.archive.org/web/20201127214050/https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/goodbye-st-james-power-station-6-things-you-might-not-have-known-about-the-iconic. 2020-11-27. live.
7. Web site: Chua Boon Lay . NLB . 12 August 2019.