The main participants were Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman.
After celebrating Malaya's independence (Hari Merdeka), MacGillivray was accompanied by the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong of Malaya and his consort, together with Malaya's first prime minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman to board the plane in Sungai Besi Airport.
The earth satellite station was opened on 4 April 1970 by Tunku Abdul Rahman, who was the Prime Minister of Malaysia at the time.
Fearing a communist resurgency, the Malayan Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman insisted that Singapore round up all pro-communists before the merger occurred.
The Grand Old Man of the V.I. received a special award from Puan Sharifah Rodziah, the wife of then Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman.
Paula Abdul | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | A. R. Rahman | Maumoon Abdul Gayoom | Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport | Abdul Hamid II | Tunku Abdul Rahman | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Abdul Rasul Sayyaf | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | Abdul Qadeer Khan | Ziaur Rahman | Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai | Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqi Qadri | Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum | Omar Abdel-Rahman | Head over Heels (Paula Abdul album) | Abdul Rashid Dostum | Abdul-Qadir Gilani | Abdul Hadi Awang | Shah Abdul Aziz | Rahman | Motiur Rahman Nizami | Fazlur Rahman Malik | Abdul Taib Mahmud | Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi | Abdul Hadi Abdul Hamid | Tunku 'Abidin Muhriz | Tarique Rahman | Slamet Abdul Sjukur |
In 1961, PRB rejected the proposal for membership in federation with Malaysia, proposed by Malaya's Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman even though the government of Brunei was favourable to the federation.
The first Prime Minister of Malaysia, the late Tunku Abdul Rahman, spent his retirement years in Pulau Tikus, in a house on the former Ayer Rajah Road now renamed Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman after him.
She died due to pneumonia, in Penang, on March 12, 2000 at the age of 80 and was buried next to her husband grave, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj at Kedah Royal Mausoleum in Langgar, Kedah.
Such issues catalysed the impending secession: On 7 August 1965, Tunku Abdul Rahman announced to the Malaysian Parliament in Kuala Lumpur that the Parliament should vote yes on the resolution to have Singapore to leave the Federation, choosing to "sever all ties with a State Government that showed no measure of loyalty to its Central Government" as opposed to the undesirable method of suppressing the PAP for its actions.