Independence & Merdeka · event 6 of 10

1960

The Emergency ends. Formally declared over after twelve years. The National Monument in the Lake Gardens, by the sculptor who made the Iwo Jima memorial, commemorates the dead.

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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