Events
- March - Kota Darul Ehsan the biggest arch in Malaysia is opened.
- April - The Amanah Saham Nasional scheme is launched.
- June - The new Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad building at Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur is officially opened.
- 16 July - Tun Hussein Onn resigns as prime minister.
- 17 July - Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad officially became the fourth Malaysian prime minister.
- 18 July - Tun Musa Hitam was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia.
- 23 July - Work Minister S. Samy Vellu announced that the Penang Bridge, Penang would be constructed using the cable-stayed concrete girder of the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge instead of the steel-tied arch in the style of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Read more about this topic: 1981 In Malaysia
Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along the primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one’s way to where the country is.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)