The following lists events that happened during

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

in Colony of Singapore.

Incumbents

Governor A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...

: Sir William Allmond Codrington Goode * Chief Minister: Lim Yew Hock * Chief Secretary:

Edgeworth Beresford David Sir Edgeworth Beresford David KBE CMG (12 June 1908 – 15 May 1965) was a colonial administrator. He was appointed as a cadet in the Colonial Office in 1930 and later became the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1955 to 1957 and the las ...

(starting 29 January 1958)

Events

March

* 30 March - Nanyang University, a private university using the Chinese language (

Singaporean Mandarin Singaporean Mandarin () is a variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken natively in Singapore. It is one of the four official languages of Singapore along with English, Malay and Tamil. Singaporean Mandarin can be classified into two distinct Manda ...

) is officially opened. It eventually merged with the University of Singapore to form the

National University of Singapore The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS is the oldest autonomous university in the c ...

April

* 3 April - Times House is officially opened, serving as the operation headquarters of Singapore's newspapers.

May

* 13 May - The third Merdeka Talks took place, which concluded with the same agreement from 1957.

July

* 1 July - The Legal Aid Bureau is created to assist the need with legal matters.

August

* 1 August - The State of Singapore Act 1958 passed, granting Singapore self-rule. * 8 August - The Master Plan, which was intended to guide Singapore's development over a two-decade period, is approved by the Singapore government and comes into force. * 9 August - The first air-conditioned supermarket, Fitzpatrick's Supermarket is officially opened. Since then, the area has been taken over by The Paragon.

November

* 22 November - The Shaw House, a 10-storey office block, is officially opened by then Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock. * 24 November - The Syariah Court is established to tighten divorce processes and safeguard marriages.

Births

* 13 October - Sam Tan, former politician * 10 December -

Ng Eng Hen Ng Eng Hen ( zh, s=黄永宏, p=Huáng Yǒnghóng; born 10 December 1958) is a Singaporean politician and former oncologist who has been serving as Minister for Defence since 2011. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has bee ...

Minister for Defence {{unsourced, date=February 2021 A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is an often-used name for the part of a government responsible for matters of defence, found in states ...

References

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