• 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.
  • Lee Kuan Yew's quotes: “First, to understand Singapore, you've got to start off with an improbable story. It should not exist . . . We haven't got the base, the space, the wherewithal.”
  • "Suddenly, we're on our own. ... It's one thing running Hong Kong under British or Chinese protection; it's another matter governing tiny Singapore." (1965)
  • "If there were no international law and order, and big fish eat small fish and small fish eat shrimps, we wouldn’t exist.”