Malaysia Day

Malaysia Day (Malay: Hari Malaysia; Jawi: هاري مليسيا‎) is a public holiday held on 16 September every year nationally since 2010 to commemorate the establishment of the Malaysian federation on that date in 1963. This event saw Malaya (already a sovereign state since 1957), North Borneo (which was renamed Sabah), Sarawak, and Singapore unite into a single state called Malaysia. Singapore, however, was expelled from the federation less than two years later, on 9 August 1965.