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History. 1892 Straits Settlements stamp. A postal service had been available in Singapore since the contemporary city was founded by Stamford Raffles in 1819. Postal services were first directly organised in Singapore in 1826, and from 1829 rectangular postmarks began to be used on local correspondence.
Singapore at the2024 Summer Olympics. Singapore is competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It will be the nation's eighteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics since its debut at the 1948 Games. Singapore has competed in every edition since except 1964 in Tokyo, as part of Malaysia team, and 1980 in Moscow ...
Event. 1819. 29 January. Sir Stamford Raffles arrives in Singapore with William Farquhar to establish a trading post for the British East India Company . 6 February. The treaty is signed between Sultan Hussein of Johor, Temenggong Abdul Rahman and Sir Stamford Raffles . William Farquhar is installed as the first Resident of the settlement . 1821.
All examples use example date 2021-03-31 / 2021 March 31 / 31 March 2021 / March 31, 2021 – except where a single-digit day is illustrated. Basic components of a calendar date for the most common calendar systems: D – day; M – month; Y – year; Specific formats for the basic components: yy – two-digit year, e.g. 24; yyyy – four-digit ...
March 4 – 2024 Durham federal by-election is held. The seat is won by Conservative candidate Jamil Jivani. [citation needed] March 6 – Six people are killed, including four children, and another person is injured during a mass murder at a home in Ottawa. A man is arrested.
South African International Stamp Exhibition, 1928. JIPEX '36 International Philatelic Exhibition, Johannesburg, 2–4 November 1936. South African Tercentenary International Stamp Exhibition. UNIPEX 1960 International Philatelic Exhibition, Johannesburg, 30 May-4 June 1960. INTERSTEX '71 International Stamp Exhibition, Cape Town, 22–31 May 1971.
List of public holidays in Singapore. There are generally 11 public holidays a year; however, since the gap between the Islamic calendar and the Gregorian calendar lasts around 11 days, Hari Raya Aidil Fitri and Hari Raya Aidil Adha are respectively celebrated twice in a Gregorian calendar year every 32 or 33 years.
Postal rates to 1847. Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.