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The following lists events that happened during 1954 in Colony of Singapore .
The Labour Front was a political party in Singapore that operated from 1955 to 1960.
Lim Chin Siong was a Singaporean politician and union leader active in Singapore in the 1950s and 1960s. He was one of the founders of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), which has governed the country continuously since independence. Lim also used his popularity to galvanise many trade unions in support of the PAP.
The Hock Lee bus riots took place on 12 May 1955 in Singapore. The riots started as a result of confrontation between the police, bus workers of the Hock Lee Amalgamated Bus Company and students who supported the bus workers.
Lim Yew Hock was a Singaporean-born Malaysian politician and diplomat who served as Chief Minister of Singapore between 1956 and 1959. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cairnhill between 1959 and 1963 and previously a Member of the Legislative Council and later Legislative Assembly between 1948 and 1963. He was de facto Leader of the Opposition between 1959 and 1963. He and his family elected to take up Malaysian citizenship after Singapore's independence from Malaysia.
The following lists events that happened during 1997 in Singapore.
Events from the year 1992 in Singapore.
The following lists events that happened during 1991 in Singapore.
The following lists events that happened during 1969 in Singapore.
The following lists events that happened during 1967 in Singapore.
The following lists events that happened during 1965 in Singapore.
The following lists events that happened during 1963 in Singapore.
The following lists events that happened during 1961 in Singapore.
General elections were held in Singapore on 30 May 1959. They were held under the new constitution and were the first in which all 51 seats in the Legislative Assembly were filled by election. This was the first election victory for the People's Action Party (PAP), as they won a landslide victory with 43 seats. The party has remained in power ever since.
Singapore, officially the State of Singapore, was one of the 14 states of Malaysia from 1963 to 1965. Malaysia was formed on 16 September 1963 by the merger of the Federation of Malaya with the former British colonies of North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore. This marked the end of the 144-year British rule in Singapore which began with the founding of modern Singapore by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819. At the time of merger, it was the smallest state in the country by land area, but the largest by population.
General elections were held in Singapore on 2 April 1955 to elect members to the 25 elected seats in the Legislative Assembly. Nomination day was on 28 February 1955.
Chew Swee Kee was a Singaporean politician. A member of political party Labour Front, Chew served as the first Minister of Education from 1955 to 1959.
The following lists events that happened during 1955 in Colony of Singapore.
The following lists events that happened during 1957 in Colony of Singapore.
The following lists events that happened during 1956 in Colony of Singapore.
Thampore Thamby Rajah, better known as T. T. Rajah, was a Singaporean politician and lawyer who served as Secretary-General of the People's Action Party for a short period of time in 1957 before joining the Barisan Sosialis in 1961.
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