1976 in Singapore

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See also:	Other events of 1976 Timeline of Singaporean history

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, Workers' Party MP for Sengkang GRC.
• 21 January — Christopher de Souza, current Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore and PAP MP for Holland-Bukit Timah GRC.
• 20 April — Henry Kwek, PAP MP for Kebun Baru SMC.
• 2 June — Yaw Shin Leong, former Workers' Party MP for Hougang SMC (d. 2023).
• 27 June — Intan Azura Mokhtar, former PAP MP for Ang Mo Kio GRC.
• 14 July — Yeo Wan Ling, PAP MP for Punggol GRC.
• 15 July — Desmond Lee, current Minister for Education.
• 2 August — Pritam Singh, 9th Leader of the Opposition and 9th Secretary-General of the Workers' Party.
• 2 December — Loretta Chen, theatre director and media personality.

Deaths

• 25 January — Koo Young, former Barisan Sosialis legislative assemblyman for Thomson Constituency (b. 1936). ^{[7] [8]}
• 10 April — Sellappa Ramasamy, former PAP Member of Parliament for Bukit Merah Constituency and Potong Pasir Constituency (b. 1927). ^[9]
• 4 October — Chua Boon Lay, footballer (b. 1902). ^[10]
• 28 October — Chen Jen Hao, educator and pioneering artist (b. 1908). ^{[11] [12]}
• 15 December — P. S. Raman, diplomat (b. 1920). ^[13]

References

1. "Pearl Bank Apartments in Outram sold en bloc to CapitaLand for S$728m". The Straits Times. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
2. "CapitaLand unveils design for One Pearl Bank". CNA. 14 May 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
3. "The 85-year journey of a Singapore bank". The Straits Times. 12 November 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
4. Dieter Nohlen; Florian Grotz; Christof Hartmann (15 November 2001). Elections in Asia and the Pacific : A Data Handbook: Volume II: South East Asia, East Asia, and the South Pacific. OUP Oxford. p. 254. ISBN   978-0-19-924959-6.
5. Parliamentary general election 1976 Singapore Elections
6. Jan Lee (7 September 2018). "Goodbye, St James Power Station: 6 things you might not have known about the iconic nightspot". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020.
7. "Peniaga temui maut di Klab Lumba Kuda". NewspaperSG . 26 January 1976. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
8. "无标题". NewspaperSG . 25 January 1977. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
9. "144 In Memoriam". NewspaperSG . 10 April 1984. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
10. "Chua Boon Lay". NLB. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
11. "Chen Jen Hao". reference.nlb.gov.sg. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
12. "Doctor who mistook piece of fat for appendix". NewspaperSG . 4 May 1978. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
13. "Envoy's body flown home from Moscow". The Straits Times . 21 December 1976. p. 13. Retrieved 16 September 2024– via NewspaperSG.