Independence & Merdeka · event 5 of 10

1957

Merdeka. At midnight on 30 August the Union Jack comes down over the padang; at dawn the Federation flag goes up. Later that morning at Stadium Merdeka, Tunku Abdul Rahman leads the crowd in seven shouts of Merdeka!

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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