• September 16, 1923: Lee Kuan Yew is born in Singapore as a British subject.
  • 1942-1945: Worked as transcriber of Allied wire reports under Japanese occupation of Singapore.
  • Studied law at Cambridge University, graduated with double First Class Honours.
  • 1949: Returned to Singapore with firm belief in self-governance.
  • When the People's Action Party was formed in 1954, he became its Secretary-General.
  • He has been the head of Singapore's Government since 1959, through three general elections.
  • Mr. Yew had visited India three times.
  • A look at the founding father of Singapore in pictures: >Click here.