Historymaker
Lee Kuan Yew was born in singapore on Sept. 16, 1923, to a father he grew distant from and a 16-year-old mother who adored him. The family had lived in the colony for more than half a century by the time of his birth, absorbing the culture of the indigenous Malays and the colonial British. Though Lee’s father himself rose only to be the manager of an oil depot for Shell, the wider clan was established and well-off.