1976 in Singapore

The following lists events that happened during 1976 in Singapore.

1976
in
Singapore

Decades:
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
See also:

Incumbents

Events

April

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

December

Date unknown

- The Queensway Shopping Centre is opened as a sports mall. The mall also hosts Singapore's first public escalators.

Births

Deaths

  • 4 October – Chua Boon Lay, footballer (b. 1902).[6]

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. "Chua Boon Lay". NLB. Retrieved 12 August 2019.


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