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1972 in Malaysia

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Decades:
  
1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s

See also:
  
Other events of 1972 Timeline of Malaysian history

1972 in Malaysia
15 years of the nationhood

Contents

Federal level

  • Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah
  • Raja Permaisuri Agong: Sultanah Bahiyah
  • Prime Minister: Tun Abdul Razak
  • Deputy Prime Minister: Tun Dr Ismail

    • State level

  • Sultan of Johor: Sultan Ismail
  • Sultan of Kedah: Tengku Abdul Malik (Regent)
  • Sultan of Kelantan: Sultan Yahya Petra (Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong)
  • Raja of Perlis: Tuanku Syed Putra
  • Sultan of Perak: Sultan Idris Shah II
  • Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Abu Bakar
  • Sultan of Selangor: Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah
  • Sultan of Terengganu: Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah
  • Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tuanku Jaafar
  • Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Penang: Tun Syed Sheikh Barabakh
  • Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Malacca: Tun Haji Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Majid
  • Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Sarawak: Tun Tuanku Bujang Tuanku Othman
  • Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Sabah: Tun Pengiran Ahmad Raffae

    • Events

  • 1 February – Kuala Lumpur was accorded city status. Tan Sri Dato' Lokman Yusof became the first Lord Mayor (Datuk Bandar).
  • February – Queen Elizabeth II of United Kingdom makes her first official visit to Malaysia.
  • March – Lee Kuan Yew visit to Malaysia, after Singapore separation from Malaysia in August 9 1965.
  • 18 April – The Rajang Area Security Command (RASCOM) is established during Sarawak Communist Insurgency.
  • 19 June – TV Pendidikan, Malaysia's first and the only educational TV programme is officially launched.
  • 2 - 11 August – Malaysia compete for the first time in 1972 Summer Paralympics at Heidelberg, West Germany with four competitors.
  • 13 September – About 27 people were killed in a river ferry disaster at Kerian River of the Perak-Kedah border.

    • Theme

    Masyarakat Adil

    Births

  • Victor Wong – Malaysian Chinese singers
  • Eja (Siti Shahrizah bt Saifuddin) – Malaysian model and actress
  • Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor – first Malaysian angkasawan (Cosmonaut)

    • Deaths

  • Tan Sri Dato' Lokman Yusof – first Lord Mayor (Datuk Bandar) of Kuala Lumpur,

    • References

    1972 in Malaysia Wikipedia
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