Independence & Merdeka · event 2 of 10

1945

Liberation, and a bombed museum. The Japanese surrender. Among the casualties of the Allied air raids on the railway yards is the Selangor Museum, whose replacement becomes the National Museum in 1963.

The Independence & Merdeka era

  1. 1942
  2. 1945
  3. 1946
  4. 1948
  5. 1957
  6. 1960
  7. 1963
  8. 1965
  9. 1969
  10. 1971

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