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Decades:

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1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s

Incumbents

Federal level

Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Sultan Iskandar of Johor
Raja Permaisuri Agong: Sultanah Zanariah of Johor
Prime Minister: Dato' Sri Dr Mahathir Mohammad
Deputy Prime Minister:
- Dato' Musa Hitam (until 9 May)
- Dato' Ghafar Baba (from 10 May)

State level

Sultan of Johor: Tunku Ibrahim Ismail (Regent)
Sultan of Kedah: Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah
Sultan of Kelantan: Sultan Ismail Petra
Raja of Perlis: Tuanku Syed Putra
Sultan of Perak: Sultan Azlan Shah (Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong)
Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Ahmad Shah
Sultan of Selangor: Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah
Sultan of Terengganu: Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah
Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tuanku Jaafar
Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Penang: Tun Dr Awang Hassan
Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Malacca: Tun Syed Ahmad Al-Haj bin Syed Mahmud Shahabuddin
Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Sarawak: Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce Mohammed Noor
Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Sabah: Tun Mohd Adnan Robert

Events

3 January – SMK Lembah Keramat, Selangor was founded and opened to public.
January – Suleiman Courts residential flats is demolished.
March – Rioters, protesting against the appointment of the Chief Minister and Head of State, detonated bombs and committed arson around major towns in the 1986 Sabah riots.
March – Johor Circuit (Pasir Gudang), the second Malaysian race track circuit after Batu Tiga Circuit in Shah Alam, Selangor is officially opened.
22 March – The P. Ramlee Memorial at Jalan Dedap, Taman P. Ramlee, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur is opened to the public.
April – Central Market, Kuala Lumpur's newest attraction, is officially opened. Previously it was a wet market.
12-16 April – The 1986 Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) General Conference is held.
14 April – Sudirman Arshad held an open-air concert on Chow Kit Road, which was the first time ever that a street concert drew a 100,000-person crowd on a Monday night.
10 May – Tun Ghafar Baba becomes Deputy Prime Minister replacing Tun Musa Hitam who resigned due to differences of opinion with the prime minister.
27 June – Highway Concessionnaires Berhad, Malaysia's second highway concessionnaires operator, is founded.
17 July – The opening of Malacca Sultanate Palace Museum in Malacca City, Malacca.
3 August – The 1986 General Elections.
17-22 October – The Pudu Prison siege took place at Pudu Prison, Kuala Lumpur. On October 22, the hostage crisis at the prison ended without bloodshed. Six prisoners were captured and two hostages were rescued.
November – Ferry Malaysia is launched in Kuantan Port, Pahang.
6 December – Langkawi Island become a duty free status.

National Day

Main theme

Bangsa Tegas Negara Teguh

Academic

Mohamad Abu Zar bin Abdul Halim - University of Malaya's best surgeon

Births

Sharifah Amani – actress
Felixia Yeap (Raissyah Rania Yeap) – model
Zul Ariffin - actor

Deaths

7 July - Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers, two Australian nationals hanged to death for the trafficking of 141.9g of heroin.

Years in Malaysia

Malaysia was only formed on September 16, 1963. Prior to that date, Peninsular Malaysia was known as Malaya.

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