1996 in Malaysia

1996 in Malaysia
39 years of the nationhood

Incumbents

Federal level

*Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Tuanku Jaafar
*Raja Permaisuri Agong: Tuanku Najihah
*Prime Minister: Dato' Sri Dr Mahathir Mohammad
*Deputy Prime Minister: Dato' Sri Anwar Ibrahim

tate level

*Sultan of Johor: Sultan Iskandar
*Sultan of Kedah: Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah
*Sultan of Kelantan: Sultan Ismail Petra
*Raja of Perlis: Tuanku Syed Putra
*Sultan of Perak: Sultan Azlan Shah
*Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Ahmad Shah
*Sultan of Selangor: Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah (Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong)
*Sultan of Terengganu: Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah
*Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tengku Naquiddin (Regent)
*Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Penang: Tun Dr Hamdan Sheikh Tahir
*Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Malacca: Tun Syed Ahmad Al-Haj bin Syed Mahmud Shahabuddin
*Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Sarawak: Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce
*Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Sabah: Tun Sakaran Dandai

Events

* 6 January - A landslide blocks the North-South Expressway (NSE) near Gua Tempurung, Perak.
* 12 January - The first Malaysian satellite MEASAT 1 is launched by Ariane rocket from Kourou, French Guiana
* 17 February - Twenty-four people, seven of them policemen, were injured in rioting at the Sungai Besi camp for Vietnamese illegal immigrants.
* February - First Le Tour de Langkawi cycling tour.
* 12 February - The Multimedia Super Corridor is established.
* 2 March - The body remains of the Malay Sarawakian nationalist Rosli Dhobie was brought back from Kuching Central Prison to Sibu.
* 6 March - Perodua Rusa, Malaysian first domestically manufactured van is launched.
* 14 April - The Sungai Besi camp for Vietnamese illegal immigrants is officialy closed.
* May - Malaysia's first domestically-produced motorcycle, Modenas Kriss is launched.
* June - Astro, the first satellite television provider in Malaysia is launched.
* June - Malaysia Electric Corporation, Malaysia's first electrical appliances manufacturer is launched.
* July - Michael Jackson held his concert in Malaysia for the first time at Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur.
* 2 July - A new version of Malaysian Ringgit RM 2 notes is introduced.
* 16 July - A bus, ferrying a group of factory workers and their families on a holiday excursion, plunged into a 120m-deep ravine at km 1 of the Genting Sempah-Genting Highlands Highway near the Genting Highlands Resort, killing 17 of them. Six were children.
* 2 August - The 1996 Peninsular Malaysia electricity blackout crisis.
*29 August - A mud avalanche near Pos Dipang Orang Asli settlement in Kampar, Perak kills 44 people.
* 1 October - The Kuala Lumpur Tower at Bukit Nanas is officially opened.
* 2 November - The Sungai Buloh Prison in Sungai Buloh, Selangor becomes the federal prison, replacing Pudu Prison in Kuala Lumpur.
* 29 November - Official opening of the new Pusat Sains Negara (Pusat Sains Negara) building in Bukit Damansara, Kuala Lumpur.
* 18 December - The Yang di-Pertuan Muda of Terengganu, Tengku Mizan Zainal Abidin marries Nur Zahirah.
*26 December - Several parts of Sabah were hit by the Greg tropical storms.

National Day

Main theme

Budaya Penentu Kecapaian

National Day Parade

*Kota Kinabalu, Sabah

ports

Births

Deaths

*Sher Mohamed Allah Baksh — Assistant Commissioner of Police (1939 - 1969)
*Tan Sri Hamid Bidin — Malaysian Armed Forces general (1969-1970)
*PP Narayanan — former Malaysian Workers Union president
*Ibu Enjah - first "Ibu Mithali" awards
*S. Roomai Noor — Malaysian actors
*Tan Sri Dato' Senu B. Abdul Rahman — former USM Vice Chancellor and Malaysian ambassador to United Nations
*Wong Peng Soon - Former Malaysian badminton player

See also

* 1996
* 1995 in Malaysia | 1997 in Malaysia
* History of Malaysia