unity between the three major ethnic groups namely Malays, Chinese and Indians led to the London Agreement that was signed on 8 February 1956

After the war, in 1948, a Federation of Malaya was created under British protection,

Malayan independence was the answer to the Communist claim that they were fighting to free the Malayan people from the British

The UMNO’s leader Tunku Abdul Rahman became prime minister when the independent Federation of Malaya came into being in 1957.

Atlantic Ocean east of the Windward Isles on September 19.

entral Caribbean Sea,

category 1 hurricane—a storm with winds of 119–153 km

September 23, but only slowly strengthened over the following few days

By September 26

300 miles south of Cuba

7 December 1941

A task force of three fast transport ships, escorted by cruisers and destroyers, arrived off the small port of Kota Bharu in north-east Malaya.