Independence & Merdeka · event 9 of 10

1969

13 May. Communal rioting breaks out in Kuala Lumpur after an election in which the ruling coalition loses ground. The official death toll is 196 and other estimates are higher; most of the dead are Chinese. Parliament is suspended for nearly two years.

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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