Malaysian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Malaysia (born 1903)

Tunku Abdul Rahman

Tunku Abdul Rahman, widely known simply as Tunku, was a Malaysian statesman who served as the first prime minister of Malaysia from 1957 until 1970. He was also the only chief minister of the Federation of Malaya from 1955 to 1957, president of UMNO from 1951 to 1971, and leader of the Alliance Party from 1952 to 1971. As the leading advocate for self-governance, Tunku was central to the Malayan Declaration of Independence and the creation of Malaysia in 1963. He is widely recognised as the country's founding father and remains its second longest-serving prime minister.

Born

1903

February 8

Died

1990

Era

1900s

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Tunku, in brief

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1903 Born
1990 Died

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421 Constantius III becomes co-emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1238 The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1250 Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
1347 The Byzantine civil war of 1341–47 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos.

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The world in 1903

When Tunku arrived

april 19 The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
april 26 Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded.
april 29 A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
august 18 German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Arlie Petters 1964– Belizean-American mathematical physicist and academic Carolina Kostner 1987– Italian figure skater Daniel Bernoulli 1700–1782 Dutch-Swiss mathematician and physicist (died 1782) Demchugdongrub 1902– Mongol prince and politician, head of state of Mengjiang (died 1966) Henry Czerny 1959– Canadian actor Jagjit Singh 1941–2011 Indian singer-songwriter (died 2011) James Dean 1931–1955 American actor (died 1955) Jim Neidhart 1955–2018 American wrestler (born 1955) Khorloogiin Choibalsan 1895– Prime Minister of Mongolia (died 1952)

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Alec Douglas-Home 1903–1995 English cricketer and politician, 66th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1995) Caroline Pafford Miller 1903–1992 American author (died 1992) Fernandel 1903– French actor and singer (died 1971) Frank P. Ramsey 1903–1930 English economist, mathematician, and philosopher (died 1930) Frank Sargeson 1903– New Zealand writer (died 1982) Georg Elser 1903– German carpenter and attempted assassin of Adolf Hitler (died 1945) Giulio Natta 1903–1979 Italian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979) Guy Simonds 1903– English-Canadian general (died 1974) Harold Eugene Edgerton 1903–1990 American engineer and academic (died 1990)

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