1996 in Malaysia - Events

Events

• 1 January
  • The Kuala Lumpur Tower was officially completed to renovated.
  • The Suria KLCC, Aquaria KLCC and Dewan Filharmonik Petronas was officially completed by the Petronas Towers.
  • The Petronas Towers was 1st batch of the personnel of building of construction.
    • Total projected occupancy is 4,500-per tower.
    • Visitor population 1,500-per day.
  • The Petronas Towers was officialy completed to renovated.
  • The Kuala Lumpur International Airport was officially opened to public.
  • Multimedia Super Corridor was officially opened to public.
• 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.
• 1 February - The Multimedia Super Corridor was officially excellent to renovated.
• 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 was officially inaugurated until grand opened by the 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia's Yang Amat Berbahagia Dato Seri Tuanku Doctor Mahathir Binti Mohammad.
• 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 officially closed.
• 1 May - The Kuala Lumpur Tower was officially opened to public by the building is the landmark of Kuala Lumpur with arch-rival Petronas Towers.
• May - Malaysia's first domestically-produced motorcycle, Modenas Kriss is launched.
• May - The construction of the Bakun Dam projects has begun.
• 1 June - Astro (Astro 衛星電視) is a 24-hours in daily of the Malaysian's 1st satellite television provider was officially innaugurated until grand launched of the MEASAT-1 satellite as part of Malaysia's commercialisation of space, Astro commenced broadcasting on 1 June 1996 with an initial offering of 8-radio stations and 22-television channels (18-international satellite television channels and 4-national satellite television channels of the branded by Astro).

• June - Malaysia Electric Corporation, Malaysia's first electrical appliances manufacturer is launched.
• 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 was officially inaugurated until grand opened by the 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia's Yang Amat Berbahagia Dato Seri Tuanku Doctor Mahathir Binti Mohammad.
• October - Michael Jackson held his concert in Malaysia for the first time at Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur.
• 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 (National Science Centre) 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. More than 250 people were killed.