Events
- May - A&W's first store in Asia Pacific and Malaysia opened at Kuala Lumpur's Batu Road.
- June - Shah Alam is established as a planned city.
- 27 July - The Malaysia-Indonesia confrontation began. The war breaks out.
- 31 August - The Muzium Negara (National Museum) officially opened.
- 16 September – Federation of Malaysia formed through the merging of the Federation of Malaya and the British crown colony of Singapore, North Borneo (became Sabah dan Labuan) and Sarawak.
- 7:30 am - The Proclamation of Malaysia are held in Kuala Lumpur (Peninsula Malaysia), Singapore, Kuching (Sarawak) and Kota Kinabalu (Sabah).
- 16 November - The National Zoo of Malaysia (Zoo Negara) was officially opened.
- 21 November - The Malaysian Houses of Parliament officially opened.
- 31 December - Malaysia officially began broadcasting until officially regular broadcast on 1st free-to-air terrestrial television channel's Television Malaysia transformation by "Television Singapura" was officially innaugurated until grand launched for mainly Malay, English, Chinese and Tamil programme transmission by the 1st Prime Minister of Malaysia's Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj Ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah.
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