1972 in Singapore
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The following lists events that happened during 1972 in Singapore.
Incumbents[edit]
Events[edit]
January[edit]
- 1 January – The Post Office Savings Bank is turned into a statutory board. This allows the bank more freedom to run its operations.[1]
February[edit]
- 7 February – The National Wages Council is set up to ensure sustainable wages. This comes after wages have risen quickly the previous year.[2][3]
April[edit]
- 1 April – The Telephone Department is converted into a statutory board called the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore.[4]
- 2 April – The Singapore Grand Prix is won by Max Stewart.[5]
May[edit]
- 12 May – The National Productivity Board is formed to encourage productivity.[6]
June[edit]
- 15 June – The SAF Act comes into effect, allowing for effective management of the Singapore Armed Forces. The Act merges the air, sea and land vocations and establishes the Armed Forces Council.[7]
July[edit]
- 2 July – Singapore Armed Forces Reservist Association is officially launched.
- 20 July – The Stop at Two policy is unveiled to encourage people to have smaller families.[8][9]
August[edit]
- 17 August – Work starts on the Brani Naval Base.
September[edit]
- 1 September – The Sentosa Development Corporation is formed to manage Sentosa and the outlying islands to attract tourists.[10]
- 2 September – The People's Action Party wins the 1972 General Election.[11]
- 15 September – The first Merlion Park is officially opened.[12]
- 17 September – 22-year-old Cheng Li Zhen is shot dead while walking through Queenstown; the crime remains unsolved.[13]
October[edit]
- 1 October – Singapore Airlines starts its first flights.
- 13 October – Heavy fog, an environmental phenomenon that had built up since the beginning of the month, causes gridlock and other problems throughout Singapore.[14]
- 24 October – Disincentives are announced to nudge families into having only two children, taking effect on 1 August 1973. Among them are progressive reduction of income tax relief to the first three children; increase in childbirth fees depending on births; reduction of paid maternity leave from three to two confinements; and lowering priority of HDB flats allocations for large families (more than two children).[15]
November[edit]
- 21 November – A fire engulfs the Robinson's Department Store, causing 9 deaths. In addition, the impact of the fire damaged the roof of the Overseas Union Bank building and forced the Stock Exchange to stop trading for the day. As a result, this makes the fire one of the worst in Singapore's history.[16][17]
December[edit]
- 15 December -
- OCBC acquires Four Seas Communications Bank.[18]
- SATS Ltd is established as a separate company from Singapore Airlines to manage ground operations and inflight catering services.
Date unknown[edit]
- The OG building is officially opened.[19]
- Three Rifles Holdings is founded, becoming a company selling clothes.[20]
- Specialists' Shopping Centre is opened in Orchard Road. It has since been demolished.
- The first Guardian store is opened by Cold Storage.[21]
- Shaw Centre is opened.
Births[edit]
- 22 February – Dasmond Koh, actor.[22]
- 26 April – Diana Ser, journalist, media personality.
- 15 September – Kit Chan, singer.[23]
- 30 September – Darren Lim, actor.
- 6 November – Janil Puthucheary, politician.
- 18 December – Lawrence Wong, Minister for Finance.
- Alvin Pang - Singaporean poet.[24]
Deaths[edit]
- 4 April – Lionel Chan – racing driver, 28 (injuries sustained in a crash during the Singapore Grand Prix)[25]
- 5 May – Chen Su Lan – one of Singapore's first local medical graduates, philanthropist, social reformer (b. 1885).[26]
- 5 September – Bashir Ahmad Mallal – founder of Malayan Law Journal (b. 1898).[27]
- 11 September – Tan Lark Sye – former Chairman of the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan and founder of the Nanyang University (b. 1897).[28]
References[edit]
- ^ "Post Office Savings Bank becomes a statutory board". NLB. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "National Wages Council is established". NLB. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "Wages council set up". NLB. 8 February 1972. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "Singapore Telecom goes public". NLB. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
- ^ "Grand Prix 1972". National Archives of Singapore. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
- ^ "National Productivity Board is established". NLB. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "Singapore Armed Forces Act comes into effect". NLB. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "National Family Planning Campaign is launched". NLB. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "Two-child policy". NLB. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "Sentosa Development Corporation is formed". NLB. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "1972 Parliamentary General Election". NLB. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "Mouth of the Singapore River". NLB. 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- ^ "10 Epic Unsolved Crimes In Singapore's History From As Early As 1972 Fit For A CSI Remake". The Smart Local. 23 December 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
- ^ "Haze in Singapore: A problem dating back 40 years". The Straits Times. 2 October 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
- ^ "It's dearer after two". The Straits Times (retrieved from NLB). 25 October 1972. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "Nine feared dead". The Straits Times (retrieved from NLB). 22 November 1972. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ "Robinson's Department Store fire at Raffles Place". NLB. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ "OCBC takes over Four Seas". The Straits Times (retrieved from NLB). 16 December 1972. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
- ^ "Opening of the OG Building". NLB. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "Three Rifles Holdings is established". NLB. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "Guardian Health & Beauty Looking for Community Pharmacists". Pharmaceutical Society of Singapore. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ "Dasmond Koh On Why He Didn't Expect To Be An All-Time Fave & Why He Has Never Won A Hosting Award". TODAYonline. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ "Kit Chan : first Youth Ambassador". NLB. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- ^ "Alvin Pang". NLB. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ "Driver dies after racing crash". The Times. 5 April 1972. p. 6.
- ^ "Chen Su Lan". NLB. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ "Bashir Ahmad Mallal". NLB. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ "Tan Lark Sye". www.nlb.gov.sg. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
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