- 1982 in Malaysia
1982 in Malaysia
25 years of the nationhoodIncumbents
Federal level
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Yang di-Pertuan Agong :Sultan Ahmad Shah
*Raja Permaisuri Agong :Tengku Ampuan Afzan
*Prime Minister: Dato' Sri Dr Mahathir Mohammad
*Deputy Prime Minister: Dato' Musa Hitamtate level
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Sultan of Johor :Sultan Iskandar
*Sultan ofKedah :Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah
*Sultan ofKelantan :Sultan Ismail Petra
*Raja ofPerlis :Tuanku Syed Putra
*Sultan of Perak :Sultan Idris Shah II
*Sultan ofPahang :Tengku Abdullah (Regent)
*Sultan of Selangor :Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah
*Sultan ofTerengganu :Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah
*Yang di-Pertuan Besar ofNegeri Sembilan :Tuanku Jaafar (Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong)
*Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) ofPenang :Tun Dr Awang Hassan
*Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) ofMalacca :Tun Syed Zahiruddin bin Syed Hassan
*Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) ofSarawak :Tun Abdul Rahman Ya'kub
*Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) ofSabah :Tun Mohd Adnan Robert Events
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1 January - Thetime zone inPeninsular Malaysia andSingapore has changed toUTC+8 /GMT+8 and it was never changed ever since.
*2 January - The metric system of weights and measurements were introduced to replace the British imperial systems.
*10 January - The former Defence Minister,Tan Sri Ghazalie Shafie , survives a plane crash.
*February - The construction of thePenang Bridge projects had begun.
*13 February - The first section of North-South Expressway,Kuala Lumpur-Seremban Expressway was opened to traffic.
*March - The second version ofMalaysian Ringgit RM 1 notes is introduced.
*April - The 1982 Malaysian General Elections. The State Assemblyman forTampin ,Negri Sembilan ,Datuk Mohd Taha Talib was found murdered. The then Culture, Youth and Sports Minister,Datuk Mokhtar Hashim was arrested and later convicted in connection with the murder.
*29 April -McDonald's Malaysia opened its first restaurant at Jalan Bukit Bintang,Kuala Lumpur .
*31 August - Malaysia celebrates its Silver Jubliee (25 years) of independenceNational Day
Main theme
Berdisiplin Giat Maju
ports
Births
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Quincy Tan -Malaysian Chinese singer-songwriter
*Daniel Lee Chee Hun -Malaysian Chinese singer
*Hafiz Hashim - Malaysian badminton player
*Lee Chong Wei - Malaysian badminton player
*Chin Eei Hui — Malaysian woman badminton player (doubles)
*Mohamed Fairuz Fauzy - MalaysianA1GP driverDeaths
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Tan Sri Syed Nasir —Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat See also
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1982
*1981 in Malaysia |1983 in Malaysia
*History of Malaysia
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