Changi Airport MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station in Changi, Singapore. The station directly connects to Terminal 2 and Terminal 3 of Changi Airport and serves other airport amenities. Glass atrium walls at the ends of the station support an illuminated bridge that spans the island platform while allowing maximum sunlight into the station. A rail connection to the airport had been planned in the 1980s but these plans were shelved due to the low financial viability of such a branch. With increased air traffic to Changi Airport and the proposal of Terminal 3 in 1994, the plans were revived, and finalised in 1996. Construction for the line began in 1998. The station opened on 8 February 2002 with lower passenger demand than expected, but it continues to provide an alternative transport option to the airport. In May 2019 it was announced that the station would be incorporated into the Thomson–East Coast Line by 2040 as it extends to the airport's Terminal 5.

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1777:

American Revolutionary War: British general John Burgoyne's Saratoga campaign ended with his surrender to the Americans, later convincing France to enter the war in alliance with the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saratoga_campaign

1814:

A wooden beer-fermenting vat in London burst, destroying a second vat and causing a large flood of at least 128,000 imperial gallons (580,000 l; 154,000 US gal) of porter that killed eight people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood

1914:

Off the coast of the Dutch island of Texel, a British naval squadron sank the German 7th Half Flotilla of torpedo boats in the Battle off Texel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_off_Texel

1964:

Prime Minister Robert Menzies inaugurated the artificial Lake Burley Griffin in the centre of the Australian capital Canberra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Burley_Griffin

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genitive: 1. (archaic) Of or pertaining to the generation of offspring; generative, procreative, reproductive. 2. (grammar) 3. Of a grammatical case: in an inflected language (such as Greek or Latin), expressing that a thing denoted by a word is related to a thing denoted by another word as its origin or possessor; and in an uninflected language (such as English), expressing origin or possession; possessive. 4. Of, pertaining to, or used in the genitive case. 5. (countable, uncountable) Short for genitive case (“a grammatical case used to express a relationship of origin or possession”). 6. (countable) A word inflected in the genitive case, and which thus indicates origin or possession. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genitive

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