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The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese middle school students in Singapore, take place.
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1954 National Service riots
1954 civil unrest in Singapore
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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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)