This article lists important figures and events in Malaysian public affairs during the year 2000 , together with births and deaths of notable Malaysians.
Proton Waja
1 January – Visit Selangor Year 2000 officially began.[ 1]
1 January – Y2K passed without serious, widespread computer failures, as many experts and businesses had feared.[ 2]
January – The KLSE Composite Index rose to 1,000 points.
20 February – Kota Kinabalu was granted city status.[ 3]
31 March–2 April – 2000 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix
16 April – Raja of Perlis , Tuanku Syed Putra , died in the National Heart Institute , Kuala Lumpur , aged 79. On 17 April, his son Tengku Syed Sirajuddin was elected as new Raja of Perlis.[ 4] [ 5]
23 April – 21 people were kidnapped by the Philippine terrorist group Abu Sayyaf at Sipadan Island , Sabah .[ 6]
May – Mahsuri 's seventh generation, Wan Aishah Wan Nawawi visited Kedah and Langkawi Island .[ 7]
1 May – Zeti Akhtar Aziz was appointed the seventh governor of Bank Negara Malaysia . She was the first woman to lead the central bank.[ 8]
1 May – The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), a body overseeing the palm oil industry in Malaysia, was formed as a merger between the Palm Oil Research Institute of Malaysia (PORIM) and the Palm Oil Registration and Licensing Authority (PORLA).[ 9]
25 May–4 June – The 2000 Sukma Games was held in Penang .[ 10]
June – The Teluk Kemang MP by-election took place, Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate S. Sothinathan winning this by-election.[ 11]
1 July – The Sauk arms heist in Sauk , Perak . Many of Al-Mau'nah 's gang members were arrested.[ 12]
1 August – The Proton Waja , the very first Malaysian-designed car, was launched.[ 13]
26 September – The first Malaysian micro satellite Tiung SAT was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome , Kazakhstan .[ 14]
10 October – Shah Alam was granted city status.[ 15]
31 October – Four Malaysians on Singapore Airlines Flight 006 died when the flight attempted to take off from the wrong runway at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport , Taoyuan, Taiwan during a typhoon, resulting in the aircraft crashing into construction equipment on the runway, killing 83 of the 179 occupants aboard.[ 16] [ 17]
4 November – Lunas state assemblyman, Dr Joe Fernandez was assassinated in Bukit Mertajam .[ 18]
29 November – Lunas DUN by-elections took place, Parti Keadilan Nasional candidate, Saifuddin Nasution Ismail winning this by-election.[ 19]
5 December – Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Sarawak , Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce Muhammed Noor died at the age of 76. On 22 December, he was replaced by Tun Abang Muhammad Salahuddin as a new Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Sarawak.[ 20]
22 December – The 2000 Federal Territory of Putrajaya Agreement was signed at Istana Negara between Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah and Tengku Idris Shah (Regent of Selangor).[ 21]
Malaysia was only formed on September 16, 1963. Prior to that date, Peninsular Malaysia was known as Malaya, Sarawak under Crown Colony of Sarawak and Kingdom of Sarawak and Sabah under North Borneo.
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