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1965 in Malaysia


8 years of the nationhood

Federal level

  • Yang di-Pertuan Agong
    Yang di-Pertuan Agong
    The Yang di-Pertuan Agong is the head of state of Malaysia. The office was established in 1957 when the Federation of Malaya gained independence....

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    • Tuanku Syed Putra
      Tuanku Syed Putra
      Raja Syed Putra ibni Syed Hassan Jamalullail, KCMG was the third Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaya, and later of Malaysia , and sixth Raja of Perlis from 1945 to 2000....

       of Perlis
      Perlis
      Perlis is the smallest state in Malaysia. It lies at the northern part of the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and has Satun and Songkhla Provinces of Thailand on its northern border. It is bordered by the state of Kedah to the south...

       (until 20 September)
    • Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah
      Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah
      In full, Almarhum Sultan Sir Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III KCMG was the fourth Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, and the fifteenth Sultan of Terengganu.-Early career:...

       of Terengganu
      Terengganu
      Terengganu is a sultanate and constitutive state of federal Malaysia. The state is also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Iman...

       (from 21 September)
  • Raja Permaisuri Agong
    Raja Permaisuri Agong
    Raja Permaisuri Agong, or in full, Seri Paduka Baginda Raja Permaisuri Agong, is the title given to the Queen of Malaysia, consort of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.The holders of this office have been:...

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    • Tuanku Budririah of Perlis
      Perlis
      Perlis is the smallest state in Malaysia. It lies at the northern part of the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and has Satun and Songkhla Provinces of Thailand on its northern border. It is bordered by the state of Kedah to the south...

       (until 20 September)
    • Tengku Tengah Zaharah of Terengganu
      Terengganu
      Terengganu is a sultanate and constitutive state of federal Malaysia. The state is also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Iman...

       (from 21 September)
  • Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of Malaysia
    The Prime Minister of Malaysia is the indirectly elected head of government of Malaysia. He is officially appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the head of state, who in HM's judgment is likely to command the confidence of the majority of the members of that House of Representatives , the...

    : Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj
  • Deputy Prime Minister
    Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
    Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia is the second highest political office in Malaysia. There has been ten deputy prime ministers since the office was created in 1957. Although there has always been a Deputy Prime Minister since independence, there is nothing preventing a Prime Minister from not...

    : Datuk Abdul Razak

State level

  • Sultan of Johor
    Sultan of Johor
    Sultan of Johor is a hereditary seat and the nominal ruler of the Malaysian state of Johor. In the past, the sultan held absolute power over the state and was advised by a bendahara...

    : Sultan Ismail
  • Sultan
    Sultan
    Sultan is a title with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", and "dictatorship", derived from the masdar سلطة , meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be used as the title of certain rulers who...

     of Kedah
    Kedah
    Kedah is a state of Malaysia, located in the northwestern part of Peninsular Malaysia. The state covers a total area of over 9,000 km², and it consists of the mainland and Langkawi. The mainland has a relatively flat terrain, which is used to grow rice...

    : Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah (Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong)
  • Sultan
    Sultan
    Sultan is a title with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", and "dictatorship", derived from the masdar سلطة , meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be used as the title of certain rulers who...

     of Kelantan
    Kelantan
    Kelantan is a state of Malaysia. The capital and royal seat is Kota Bharu. The Arabic honorific of the state is Darul Naim, ....

    : Sultan Yahya Petra
  • Raja
    Raja
    Raja is an Indian term for a monarch, or princely ruler of the Kshatriya varna...

     of Perlis
    Perlis
    Perlis is the smallest state in Malaysia. It lies at the northern part of the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and has Satun and Songkhla Provinces of Thailand on its northern border. It is bordered by the state of Kedah to the south...

    : Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin
    Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin
    Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin ibni Tuanku Syed Putra Jamalullail is the current Raja of Perlis, reigning since 17 April 2000. He served as the 12th Yang di-Pertuan Agong from 13 December 2001 to 12 December 2006 and 7th Raja of Perlis since 2000....

     (Regent until 21 September)
  • Sultan of Perak
    Sultan of Perak
    Sultan of Perak is one of the oldest hereditary seats among the Malay states.When the Sultanate of Malacca empire fell to Portugal in 1511, Sultan Mahmud Syah I retreated to Kampar, Sumatra and died there in 1528. He left behind two princes named Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah II and Sultan Muzaffar...

    : Sultan Idris Shah II
  • Sultan
    Sultan
    Sultan is a title with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", and "dictatorship", derived from the masdar سلطة , meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be used as the title of certain rulers who...

     of Pahang
    Pahang
    Pahang is the third largest state in Malaysia, after Sarawak and Sabah, occupying the huge Pahang River river basin. It is bordered to the north by Kelantan, to the west by Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, to the south by Johor and to the east by Terengganu and the South China Sea.Its state...

    : Sultan Abu Bakar
    Sultan Abu Bakar of Pahang
    In full, Sultan Abu Bakar Riayatuddin Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdullah Al-Mutassim Billah Shah GCMG, , was the fourth sultan of modern Pahang in Malaysia....

  • Sultan of Selangor
    Sultan of Selangor
    Sultan of Selangor is the title of the constitutional ruler of Selangor, Malaysia.-Bugis bloodline:The Sultans of Selangor are descended from a Bugis dynasty that claim descent from the rulers of Luwu in the southern part of Celebes...

    : Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah
  • Sultan
    Sultan
    Sultan is a title with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", and "dictatorship", derived from the masdar سلطة , meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be used as the title of certain rulers who...

     of Terengganu
    Terengganu
    Terengganu is a sultanate and constitutive state of federal Malaysia. The state is also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Iman...

    : Tengku Mahmud
    Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah
    Almarhum Al-Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Al-Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Al-Haj was the 16th Sultan of Terengganu from 1979 to 1998.-Life:Sultan Mahmud was born in 29 April 1930 in Kuala Terengganu...

     (Regent)
  • Yang di-Pertuan Besar
    Yang di-Pertuan Besar
    In Malay, Yang di-Pertuan Besar, literally "He Who Is Made Great" or "Great Ruler", is a royal title.-In Malaysia:# Also known as Yamtuan Besar, it is the title of the elected monarch of the state of Negeri Sembilan in Malaysia...

     of Negeri Sembilan
    Negeri Sembilan
    Negeri Sembilan, one of the 13 states that constitutes Malaysia, lies on the western coast of Peninsular Malaysia, just south of Kuala Lumpur and borders Selangor on the north, Pahang in the east, and Malacca and Johor to the south....

    : Tuanku Munawir
  • Yang di-Pertua Negeri
    Yang di-Pertua Negeri
    The Yang di-Pertua Negeri is the official title of the ceremonial heads of state of the Malaysian states without hereditary rulers, namely Penang, Malacca, Sabah and Sarawak...

     (Governor) of Penang
    Penang
    Penang is a state in Malaysia and the name of its constituent island, located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia by the Strait of Malacca. It is bordered by Kedah in the north and east, and Perak in the south. Penang is the second smallest Malaysian state in area after Perlis, and the...

    : Raja Tun Uda
  • Yang di-Pertua Negeri
    Yang di-Pertua Negeri
    The Yang di-Pertua Negeri is the official title of the ceremonial heads of state of the Malaysian states without hereditary rulers, namely Penang, Malacca, Sabah and Sarawak...

     (Governor) of Malacca
    Malacca
    Malacca , dubbed The Historic State or Negeri Bersejarah among locals) is the third smallest Malaysian state, after Perlis and Penang. It is located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula, on the Straits of Malacca. It borders Negeri Sembilan to the north and the state of Johor to the south...

    : Tun Haji Abdul Malek bin Yusuf
  • Yang di-Pertua Negeri
    Yang di-Pertua Negeri
    The Yang di-Pertua Negeri is the official title of the ceremonial heads of state of the Malaysian states without hereditary rulers, namely Penang, Malacca, Sabah and Sarawak...

     (Governor) of Sarawak
    Sarawak
    Sarawak is one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo. Known as Bumi Kenyalang , Sarawak is situated on the north-west of the island. It is the largest state in Malaysia followed by Sabah, the second largest state located to the North- East.The administrative capital is Kuching, which...

    : Tun Abang Haji Openg
    Abang Haji Openg
    Tun Abang Haji Openg was the first Yang di-Pertua Negeri Sarawak ,upon the independence of Sarawak from Great Britain and formation of Malaysia in 1963.Before that, the position of Governor of Sarawak was held by a British officer appointed by Queen Elizabeth II and her precursor,King George...

  • Yang di-Pertua Negeri
    Yang di-Pertua Negeri
    The Yang di-Pertua Negeri is the official title of the ceremonial heads of state of the Malaysian states without hereditary rulers, namely Penang, Malacca, Sabah and Sarawak...

     (Governor) of Sabah
    Sabah
    Sabah is one of 13 member states of Malaysia. It is located on the northern portion of the island of Borneo. It is the second largest state in the country after Sarawak, which it borders on its southwest. It also shares a border with the province of East Kalimantan of Indonesia in the south...

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    • Tun Datu Mustapha
      Tun Datu Mustapha
      Tun Datu Haji Mustapha bin Datu Harun or Tun Mustapha for short, was the first governor of the Malaysian state of Sabah. He was also the third Chief Minister of the state from 1967 to 1975, and was the president for the political party United Sabah National Organization...

       (until March)
    • Tun Pengiran Ahmad Raffae (until March)
  • Yang di-Pertuan Negara
    Yang di-Pertuan Negara
    Yang di-Pertuan Negara, meaning "Head of State" in Malay, was used as an official title at various times in Sabah, Singapore and Brunei.-Singapore:...

     (Governor) of Singapore
    Singapore
    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

    : Yusuf Ishak (until 9 August)

Events

  • January - The International School of Kuala Lumpur
    International School of Kuala Lumpur
    The International School of Kuala Lumpur is a nonprofit, parent-owned and parent-governed school in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, accredited by the United States-based Western Association of Schools and Colleges and internationally through the Council of International Schools...

     (ISKL) is established.
  • 22 June - The Central Electricity Board (CEB) was renamed to the Lembaga Letrik Negara (National Electricity Board) (LLN).
  • 7 August - Tunku Abdul Rahman
    Tunku Abdul Rahman
    Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah, AC, CH was Chief Minister of the Federation of Malaya from 1955, and the country's first Prime Minister from independence in 1957. He remained as the Prime Minister after Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore joined the...

    , Prime Minister of Malaysia, recommends the expulsion of Singapore from the Federation of Malaysia, negotiating its separation with Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of the State of Singapore.
  • 9 August - Singapore
    Singapore
    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

     is expelled from the Federation of Malaysia.
  • 30 August - The Subang Airport
    Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport
    Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport , LTSAAS , often called Subang Airport or Subang Skypark, is an airport located in Subang, Selangor, Malaysia, and primarily serves general aviation and some turboprop domestic flights...

     near Subang, Selangor
    Selangor
    Selangor also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity") is one of the 13 states of Malaysia. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sembilan to the south and the Strait of Malacca to the west...

     is officially opened.
  • 31 August - The Masjid Negara
    Masjid Negara
    The National Mosque of Malaysia is located in Kuala Lumpur. It has a capacity of 15,000 people and is situated among of beautiful gardens. The original structure was designed by a three-person team from the Public Works Department - UK architect Howard Ashley, and Malaysians Hisham Albakri and...

     in Kuala Lumpur
    Kuala Lumpur
    Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...

     a symbol of Islam as the official religion in Malaysia is opened.
  • 21 September - Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah
    Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah
    In full, Almarhum Sultan Sir Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III KCMG was the fourth Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, and the fifteenth Sultan of Terengganu.-Early career:...

     of Terengganu
    Terengganu
    Terengganu is a sultanate and constitutive state of federal Malaysia. The state is also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Iman...

     is elected as the fourth Yang di-Pertuan Agong
    Yang di-Pertuan Agong
    The Yang di-Pertuan Agong is the head of state of Malaysia. The office was established in 1957 when the Federation of Malaya gained independence....


Births

  • Dato' Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo — Menteri Besar
    Menteri Besar
    The Menteri Besar is the chief executive of the state government for states in Malaysia with hereditary rulers. For states without a monarch, the title Chief Minister is used...

     of Selangor
    Selangor
    Selangor also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity") is one of the 13 states of Malaysia. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sembilan to the south and the Strait of Malacca to the west...

     (2000–2008)
  • Hani Mohsin
    Hani Mohsin
    Hani Mohsin was a Malaysian celebrity, actor and host of TV gameshow Roda Impian, the Malaysian version of Wheel of Fortune.Hani was born on 18 June 1965 in Kangar, Perlis....

     — Celebrities and the host of the TV gameshow of Wheel of Fortune
    Wheel of Fortune in different countries
    Wheel of Fortune is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin and first aired in 1975, with a syndicated version airing since 1983. Since its premiere, the program has been adapted into several international versions. The 1975 version premiered on Australian TV in 1981 and premiered...

    's Malaysia version Roda Impian

See also

  • 1965
  • 1964 in Malaysia
    1964 in Malaysia
    -Federal level:*Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Tuanku Syed Putra of Perlis*Raja Permaisuri Agong: Tuanku Budriah of Perlis*Prime Minister: Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj*Deputy Prime Minister: Datuk Abdul Razak-State level:*Sultan of Johor: Sultan Ismail...

     | 1966 in Malaysia
    1966 in Malaysia
    1966 in Malaysia9 years of the nationhood-Federal level:*Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah of Terengganu*Raja Permaisuri Agong: Tengku Tengah Zaharah of Terengganu*Prime Minister: Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj...

  • History of Malaysia
    History of Malaysia
    Malaysia is a country in South East Asia whose strategic sea-lane position brought trade and foreign influences that fundamentally influenced its history. Hindu and Buddhist cultures imported from India dominated early Malaysian history...

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