The Masjid Yusof Ishak was opened by his widow Noor Aishah
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Yusof bin Ishak
Yusof bin Ishak Al-Haj was a Singaporean journalist and civil servant who served as the head of state of Singapore from 1959 to 1970, as the second Yang di-Pertuan Negara of Singapore between 1959 and 1965 and the first president of Singapore between 1965 and 1970.
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culture · President of Singapore from 1965 to 1970 · politician · journalist · also Yusof bin Ishak, Yusof Ishak, Ishak
Born 12 August 1910 · Died 23 November 1970 · Q259331
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2015· 1 entry
Yusof was featured in all six of the SG50 Commemorative Notes
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2014· 1 entry
Which commemorated the spouses of Yusof and David Marshall, two pioneer leaders of Singapore
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1999· 1 entry
And are the current set of Singapore currency notes in circulation
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1995· 1 entry
Finance minister Richard Hu announced that the new Singapore dollar notes, which were to be issued at the beginning of the 21st-century, would feature Yusof's presidential portrait on them
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1970· 2 entries
Died 1970-11-23.
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Eight years later, the National University of Singapore renamed one of the buildings at its Kent Ridge campus as the Yusof Ishak House in honour of him
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1969· 2 entries
Attended his father Ishak's funeral in Kuala Lumpur; he had previously visited him in the hospital in 1968
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Yusof was given an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the National University of Singapore
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1968· 1 entry
Yusof suffered a heart attack and was flown to Melbourne for treatment
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1967· 1 entry
Yusof was unanimously elected by parliament to serve a four year term
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1966· 3 entries
Which was made by sculptor Lim Yew Kuan and painter Chan Khun Yew
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Stated that Singapore's multicultural identity was one of the factors towards Singapore's growth, and that the Malay community should try to integrate with Singapore
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Gave a New Year's speech addressing the separation:Separation cannot deny us the right or deprive us [of] the power to demonstrate the correctness of our ideas within Singapore
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1965· 2 entries
Career landmark: President of Singapore (1965–1970).
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Singapore dropped the use of titles such as Tun following its separation from Malaysia
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1963· 1 entry
Yusof was given the Grand Commander of the Order of the Defender of the Realm, which allowed him the use of the honorific title Tun
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1959· 2 entries
Following conflicts between Utusan and the UMNO, which culminated in the UMNO buying all of their shares in order to better control the newspaper's political viewpoints
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Career landmark: Yang di-Pertuan Negara of Singapore (1959–1965).
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1957· 1 entry
Yusof moved to Kuala Lumpur and, in February 1958, the headquarters of Utusan Melayu were also relocated to the city
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1955· 1 entry
Was appointed into the government Malayanisation Committee, which looked into the "malayanisation" efforts that the government could implement
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1954· 1 entry
Murray-Aynsley fined Yusof, as Utusan's managing director, S$150
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1952· 1 entry
Commented on the Malayan Chinese Association's donation of S$500,000 to the Malay community, stating that the "gift should only be accepted if there are no strings attached" as it was ahead of the upcoming election
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1951· 1 entry
Yusof got help from Lee to represent his friend Abdul Samad Ismail after he was detained by the British; Abdul would later be a founding member of the People's Action Party with Lee
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1950· 1 entry
When Utusan reported on Maria Hertogh, they kept their news objective instead of taking sides
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1949· 1 entry
Utusan celebrated its tenth anniversary and Yusof gave a speech where he stated that "[Utusan's] 130 employees owned more than 25 per cent of the firm's total capital", further stating that it "was perhaps the only newsp
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1948· 1 entry
Yusof criticised the Dutch's ban on Utusan Zaman in Indonesia, but did not appeal for it to be lifted
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1938· 1 entry
Yusof co-founded Utusan Melayu, a newspaper more centred on Malay issues, in 1939 with other Malay figures in Singapore
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1932· 1 entry
Yusof joined Warta Malaya, a Malay newspaper with the highest circulation at that time, as a clerk at the invitation of his friend Syed Hussein bin Ali Alsagoff
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1929· 1 entry
When he was unable to get the scholarship
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1927· 1 entry
Yusof passed his Cambridge School Certificate examination with distinctions and entered the Queen's Scholarship Class in RI
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1924· 1 entry
Was enrolled in Raffles Institution (RI) for his secondary education
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1923· 1 entry
When Ishak was posted to Singapore as acting director of the fisheries department, the family relocated there and Yusof continued his education at Victoria Bridge School
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1910· 1 entry
Born 1910-08-12.
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