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Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.

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Stamford Raffles

British colonial official (1781–1826)

Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles was a British colonial official who served as the governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816 and lieutenant-governor of Bencoolen between 1818 and 1824. Raffles was involved in the capture of the Indonesian island of Java from the…
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Singapore

Country in Southeast Asia

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree of latitude north of the equator, off the…
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January 29

Day of the year

January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 336 days remain until the end of the year.
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