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Raffles College officially established
Monday, 22nd July 1929
The Raffles College was officially established. It provides courses in arts and science.
Aw Brothers Started Sin Chew Jit Poh
Tuesday, 15th January 1929
Sin Chew Daily （formerly known as Sin Chew Jit Poh）,a leading Chinese-language newspaper, was founded on January 15, 1929 by Aw Boon Par and his brother Aw Boon Haw, founder of the Tiger Balm in Singapore as part of the Star Amalgamated Newspaper formed by these two philanthropists.
Ponggol Zoo Opened
Monday, 31st December 1928
The Ponggol Zoo, situated at 10.5 mile Ponggol Road, by the sea. The 27-acre plot of land was purchased earlier in the year by Mr. William Lawrence Soma Basapa. Within 3 months, Mr Basapah converted a patch of mangrove swamp into an attractive zoo. It costed Mr Basapah about $30 a month to run it and he charges an entry free of $0.40 per person. The Zoo is laid out by the seaside promenade with a family rest house and cages that hold the animals. Some of the animals and birds were previously housed in Mr Basapah's large family bungalow in Upper Serangoon Road since 1922. Other animals were from all over the world like the Pelican from Australia, Lamas from India, Cappibara Pig from South American, Orang Utan from Borneo, Hakata Maru from South Africa and the monkey-eating eagle from Philippines.
Seletar Air Base received its first Flying Boats
Tuesday, 28th February 1928
The first planes to arrive at the base were four Supermarine Southampton seaplanes. The 4 Flying Boats of the Far East Flight who had completed a landmark journey from Britain. Seletar was commissioned as a RAF Station in Jan 1930. When the civilian airport at Kallang opened in June 1937, RAF Seletar became a purely military airfield housing flying boats like the Short Singapore and Sunderland, torpedo-boats like the Vickers Vildebeeste. The airfield, with an oval-shaped grass landing strip, became home to land-based torpedo aircraft.
The Johor-Singapore Causeway Opened
Friday, 20th January 1928
The Johor-Singapore Causeway is a 1,056-metre causeway that links the city of Johor Bahru in Malaysia across the Straits of Johor to the town of Woodlands in Singapore. It serves as a road, rail, and pedestrian link, as well as water piping into Singapore.
RAF Arrived At Seletar
Wednesday, 11th January 1928
The RAF Team of the Far East Flight arrived in in a partially completed Seletar Aerodome in four Supermarine Southamption "flying boats" also known as sea-planes. The Group was led by Captain Henry Cave-Brown-Cave and Squadron Leader Gerry Livock. In 1924, Gerry made an air survey of Seletar.
First Air Survery Over Seletar
Sunday, 20th April 1924
RAF Flight Lieutenant Gerry Livock, 26, was flying the Fairey III D Float Seaplane as first expedition to the Far East. He was doing an air survery of Seletar and the swamp and forests of Northern Singapore.
Asia Insurance Incorporated
Wednesday, 11th July 1923
The Asia Insurance Company Limited which is a Singaporean company was incorporated. It changed its name to TM Asia Insurance Company Limited and later (1 July 2008) to Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore Limited. The Unique Entity Number for the company is 192300014M.
First Public Radio Broadcasted
Saturday, 5th May 1923
Broadcasting in Singapore began when Radio Singapura was established as the first local mass market radio service.
Professor Einstein In Singapore
Thursday, 2nd November 1922
43 year old Professor Albert Einstein and Elsa, his wife, arrived in a Japanese mail steamer Kitano Maru. Prof Einstein use the brief stopover to urge the Jewish community, especially its most wealthy member, to contribute to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Einstein's hosts were Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Montor, a diamond merchant in Singapore.
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