16 February – The Misuse of Drugs Act is passed to deal with the problem of drug abuse more effectively.[2]
March
30 March – RTS partitions its two channels among language lines, after ten years of television broadcasts in all four languages on the came channel. Channel 5 was used to broadcast in English and Malay and Channel 8, Chinese and Tamil.[3]
April
1 April – The Institute of Education is established, taking over the role of the Teachers' Training College which started in 1950. This will boost teaching standards in Singapore.[4]
22 April – The final Singapore Grand Prix is held before the event is discontinued as a result of safety concerns. It was brought back in 2008 as a round of the Formula One World Championship.[5]
June
2 June – The CPF Building starts construction, housing the new headquarters of the Central Provident Fund.[6] The building was completed in 1976, standing for 41 years until its redevelopment in 2017 by Ascendas-Singbridge (now CapitaLand).[7]
1 July - SBS Transit (Previously known as Singapore Bus Services) was formed in the merger of 3 different private bus companies (United Bus Company, Associated Bus Service, and Amalgamated Bus Company)
27 July – For the first time in Singapore, the government executed its first female death row inmate in the country since its independence eight years back. 34-year-old Mimi Wong was earlier sentenced to death by the High Court for the 1970 murder of Ayako Watanabe, and has lost her appeals since. Wong's 40-year-old husband Sim Wor Kum, who assisted her to commit the murder, was also executed on the same day as Wong.[12]
September
1–8 September - Singapore hosts the 7th South East Asian Peninsular Games for the first time. It clinched the second place, accumulating a total of 140 medals.[13]
1 October – The Singapore Sports Council is formed from the merger of National Sports Promotion Board and the National Stadium Corporation. It aims to encourage a healthy lifestyle through sports.[15]
The UIC Building is completed, standing for 39 years until its redevelopment as V on Shenton (Five on Shenton) in 2012, a residential tower completed in 2017.
12 July – Ong Poh Heng, off-duty police officer. Ong stopped to intervene in an argument between a bus driver and a gunman along Still Road. The gunman shot him twice, killing him instantly (b. 1945).[20]
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