* First day of school at schools in Malaysia and Singapore

* First Warrant Officer, a Warrant Officer rank in the Singapore Armed Forces

* 1837-Evangelical Lutheran Church mission board established ; First translation of Bible into Japanese ( actual translation work done in Singapore )

** Elizabeth Choy ( Yong Su Moi ) 蔡楊素梅 / 蔡杨素梅 ( 1910-2006 ; born in Malaysia ), War heroine ; First and only woman to be on the Legislative Council of Singapore, 1951

** Maggie Teng 鄧妙華 / 邓妙华 ( born in Singapore ; Hakka pronunciation: Ten Miao Fa ), Singer ; First Singaporean to break into Taiwan pop music industry in the 1980s

** Ho Yeow Sun 何耀珊 ( born in Singapore ; Hakka pronunciation: Ho Rheu San ), Singer ; First and only Asian singer to top the US Billboard Dance Chart and the UK MusicWeek Chart ; Performed the Olympic Hymn, which was sung in Mandarin for the first time, accompanied by a choir of Overseas Chinese from 16 different nationalities for 2008 Beijing Olympics

Singapore ’ s national carrier, Singapore Airlines, also serves satay to its First and Raffles Class passengers as an appetizer.

After the Japanese surrender in 1945 and the return of Singapore to British rule, the island became the base of the locally enlisted First Singapore Regiment of the Royal Artillery ( 1st SRRA ) in 1947.

In February 1979, he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and became its First Permanent Secretary until February 1982, when he left to become the Executive Chairman of the Straits Times Press ( 1975 ) Ltd, the Singapore newspaper company.

* 2011 – First container shipping line to use cleaner-burning, low-sulphur gas oil in Singapore

These three films, along with the other important works of Ceylan such as Kasaba ( 1997 ) and Mayıs sıkıntısı ( 1999 ) have also won awards at the other major international film festivals ; including the Angers European First Film Festival ( 1997 and 1999 ), Ankara Film Festival ( 2000 ), Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival ( 1999, 2002 and 2006 ), Bergamo Film Meeting ( 2001 ), Berlin Film Festival ( 1998 ), Brothers Manaki Film Festival ( 2003 ), Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema ( 2001 ), Cannes Film Festival ( 2003, 2004 and 2006 ), Chicago Film Festival ( 2003 ), Cinemanila Film Festival ( 2003 ), European Film Awards ( 2000 ), Istanbul Film Festival ( 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2007 ), Mexico City Film Festival ( 2004 ), Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival ( 2003 ), San Sebastián Film Festival ( 2003 ), Singapore Film Festival ( 2001 ), Sofia Film Festival ( 2004 ), Tokyo Film Festival ( 1998 ) and the Trieste Film Festival ( 2004 ).

In June 2007, a consortium comprising the Myer family, Colonial First State and GIC Real Estate ( Singapore ) announced it would be purchasing Myer's Melbourne CBD store.

In 1904 First Sea Lord Sir John Fisher ordered that in the event of war the three main commands in the Far East, the East Indies Squadron, the China Squadron and the Australian Squadron, should all come under one command called the Eastern Fleet based in Singapore.

* First State funds management business in Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Fiji, China and Indonesia

First aired in 1995 ( with studio recordings for the pilot episode starting in 1994 ), Under One Roof was the first locally-produced English-language sitcom in Singapore.

First awarded to the pioneering graduating batch of 27 NSFs from Second Company, 1st Commando Battalion ( 1 Cdo Bn ) of the Singapore Commandos Formation, it comprises a pair of outspread wings on both wigs of a deployed parachute, with the words " SINGAPURA " below the canopy.

Bands from around the world have performed in Singapore, including the Canadian Comeback Kid, American hardcore punk bands Sick of It All, youth crew group Bold, Boston hardcore band Bane, Death Before Dishonour & straight-edge group Have Heart, Cruel Hand, Terror and First Blood originating from Los Angeles.

Ho graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1976 with a Bachelor of Engineering ( Electrical, First Class Honours ) after completing her pre-university education at National Junior College where she emerged as a Student of the Year and was a President's Scholar.

He had been active in forming a local volunteer corps at the outbreak of the Crimean War and was appointed First Captain Commandment of the Singapore Volunteer Rifle Corps formed in 1854.

* Yusof Ishak: First President of Singapore, 1959 – 1970

* Dr A Vijiaratnam: First Pro-Chancellor, Nanyang Technological University, 1992 – 2005 ; Olympian ( Hockey ), 1956 ; Only person to have represented Singapore in four sports-hockey, football, cricket and rugby

* Emeritus Prof Edwin Thumboo: Renowned poet ; First Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, 1980 – 1991 ; First Cultural Medallion ( Literature ) winner, 1979

First thing I knew he was in the kitchenette cooking up the breakfast and I was handing Eileen her coffeecup and she was lying there handsome as a queen among her courtiers.

First, the State Department is unique among government agencies for its lack of public supporters.

First, there were those Congolese ( among them Joseph Kasavubu ) who favored splitting the country into small independent states, Balkanizing it.

To be sure, when this is pointed out, a common response among certain churchmen is to fulminate about `` the little flock '' and `` the great crowd '' and to take solace from Paul's castigation of the `` wisdom of the wise '' in the opening chapter of First Corinthians.

Aristotle was well known among medieval Muslim intellectuals and revered as المعلم الأول-" The First Teacher ".

The inside walls of the monument list the names of 660 people, among which are 558 French generals of the First French Empire ; the names of those who died in battle are underlined.

First basemen, with 34 winners, have won the most MVPs among infielders, followed by second basemen ( 16 ), third basemen ( 15 ), and shortstops ( 14 ).

However, early church documents, such as those of the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) had always listed the Pope of Rome first among the Ancient Patriarchs ( first four, and later five: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem — collectively referred to as the Pentarchy ).

First among them is the risk associated with portraying the king's ancestor as a murderer and conspirator in the plot to overthrow a rightful king, as well as the author's desire to flatter a powerful patron.

Church members believe that Joseph Smith was called to be a modern-day prophet through, among other events, a First Vision | visitation from God the Father and Jesus | Jesus Christ.

First used in China, cannon were among the earliest forms of gunpowder artillery, and over time replaced siege engines — among other forms of aging weaponry — on the battlefield.

This is also when what is called the Laurentian tradition started among Archaic Indians, existing First Nations peoples of the time.

First, the conceptual level is designed, which defines the over-all picture / view of the database, and reflects all the real-world elements ( entities ) the database intends to model, as well as the relationships among them.

First synthesized in 1874, DDT's insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939, and it was used with great success in the second half of World War II to control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops.

First published in the System V Application Binary Interface specification, and later in the Tool Interface Standard, it was quickly accepted among different vendors of Unix systems.

In July 1936, stockholders of First National Pictures, Inc. ( primarily Warner Bros .) voted to dissolve the corporation and distribute its assets among the stockholders, in line with a new tax law which provided for tax-free consolidations between corporations.

There is near consensus among historians and Christian theologians that Paul is the author of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, typically classifying its authorship as " undisputed " ( see Authorship of the Pauline Epistles ).

The outbreak of the First World War was precipitated by a series of struggles among the Great Powers.

) This instigated the Crimean War in 1854 and began a tenser period of minor clashes among the globe-spanning empires of Europe that set the stage for the First World War.

The rebel Volunteers were a minority faction among Irish nationalists and up to 200, 000 Irishmen were serving on the British side in the First World War.

Also, First ( I ), second ( II ) and third ( III ) places among gold medalists are indicated where appropriate.

In Canada, from oral histories, there is evidence of a tradition of an ancient stick and ball game played among the Mi ' kmaq First Nation in Eastern Canada.

Author Matteo Bandello wrote that she was " supreme among women ", and the diplomat Niccolò da Correggio entitled her " The First Lady of the world ".

His years at Liverpool were among the club's most successful periods, as he won six Football League First Divisions, two FA Cups, four League Cups, seven FA Charity Shields, three European Cups and one UEFA Super Cup.