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2000 in Malaysia
43 years of the nationhood
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Incumbents
Federal level
- Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah
- Raja Permaisuri Agong: Tuanku Siti Aishah
- Prime Minister: Dato' Sri Dr Mahathir Mohammad
- Deputy Prime Minister: Dato' Sri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
State level
- Sultan of Johor: Sultan Iskandar
- Sultan of Kedah: Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah
- Sultan of Kelantan: Sultan Yahya Petra
- Raja of Perlis:
- Tuanku Syed Putra (until May)
- Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin (from May)
- Sultan of Perak: Sultan Azlan Shah
- Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Ahmad Shah
- Sultan of Selangor: Tengku Idris Shah (Regent)
- Sultan of Terengganu: Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin (Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong)
- Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tuanku Jaafar
- Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Penang: Tun Dr Hamdan Sheikh Tahir
- Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Malacca: Tun Syed Ahmad Al-Haj bin Syed Mahmud Shahabuddin
- Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Sarawak:
- Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Sabah: Tun Sakaran Dandai
Events
- 1 January - Visit Selangor Year 2000 officially began.
- 1 January - Y2K passes without serious, widespread computer failures, as many experts and businesses had feared.
- January - The KLSE Composite Index rosed up to 1,000 points.
- 20 February - Kota Kinabalu was granted city status.
- March - The skybridge of the Petronas Twin Towers is opened to public.
- 23 April - 21 people were kidnapped by the Philippine terrorist group Abu Sayyaf at the Sipadan Island, Sabah.
- June - The Teluk Kemang MP by-elections, Barisan Nasional (BN) win in this elections.
- 1 July - The Sauk arms heist took happen in Sauk, Perak. Many of Al-Mau'nah gang members are arrested.
- August - Proton Waja, the very first Malaysian-designed car is launched.
- 26 September - The first Malaysian micro satellite Tiung SAT is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
- 10 October - Shah Alam was granted city status.
- November - Lunas state assemblyman Dr Jose Fernandes is assassinated in Bukit Mertajam.
- December - Lunas DUN by-elections.
- 22 December - The 2000 Federal Territory of Putrajaya Agreement signed at Istana Negara between Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah with Tengku Idris Shah (Regent of Selangor).
National Day
Main theme
Keranamu Malaysia
National Day Parade
Sports
Births
Deaths
- Tun Sharifah Rodziah Syed Alwi Barakbah — Wife of the first Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra and First Lady of Malaysia
- Tuanku Syed Putra of Perlis and 3rd Yang di-Pertuan Agong
- Dato' Abdullah Kia — State assemblyman for Sanggang, Pahang.
- S.R Anpalagan — Teluk Kemang's Member of Parliament
- Tun Mohd Suffian Hashim — Lord President of the Supreme Court of Malaysia
- Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce Mohammad Nor — Sarawak state Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor)
See also
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