1986 in Malaysia

1986 in Malaysia
29 years of the nationhood

Incumbents

Federal level

*Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Sultan Iskandar
*Raja Permaisuri Agong: Sultanah Zanariah
*Prime Minister: Dato' Sri Dr Mahathir Mohammad
*Deputy Prime Minister:
**Dato' Musa Hitam (until March)
**Dato' Ghafar Baba (from March)

tate level

*Sultan of Johor: Tunku Ibrahim Ismail (Regent)
*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 (Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong)
*Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Ahmad Shah
*Sultan of Selangor: Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah
*Sultan of Terengganu: Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah
*Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tuanku Jaafar
*Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Penang: Tun Dr Awang Hassan
*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 Mohd Adnan Robert

Events

* 3 January - SMK Lembah Keramat, Selangor was founded and opened to public.
* February - Central Market, Kuala Lumpur's new attractions is officially opened.
* January - Suleiman Courts residential flats is demolished.
* March - Rioters, protesting against the appointment of the Chief Minister and Head of State, detonated bombs and committed arson around major towns in the 1986 Sabah riots.
* March - Johor Circuit (Pasir Gudang), the second Malaysian race track circuit after Batu Tiga Circuit in Shah Alam, Selangor is officially opened.
* March - Tun Ghafar Baba becomes Deputy Prime Minister replacing Tun Musa Hitam who resigned due to differences of opinion with the prime minister.
*April - The 1986 General Elections.
* 15 April - Sudirman Arshad held an open air concert on Chow Kit Road, which was the first time ever that a street concert drew a 100,000 person crowd on a Monday night.
* April - The 1986 Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) General Conference is held.
*27 June - Highway Concessionnaires Berhad, Malaysia's first highway concessionnaires operators is founded.
* 11 July - The P. Ramlee Memorial at Jalan Dedap, Taman P. Ramlee, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur is opened for public.
* November - Ferry Malaysia is launch in Kuantan Port, Pahang.

National Day

Main theme

Bangsa Tegas Negara Teguh

ports

Births

*Sharifah Amani - Malaysian actress
*Sharifah Aryana - Malaysian actress

Deaths

* Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers - both Australian nationals is hanged to death for the drug trafficking of 141.9g of heroin.

See also

* 1986
* 1985 in Malaysia | 1987 in Malaysia
* History of Malaysia