Word: malayan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Tuanku (i.e., ruler) Abdul Rahman, 65, English-trained lawyer and Malayan state chief who, when Malaya became an independent federation within the British Commonwealth in 1957, was elected to a five-year term as the nation's first nonhereditary king (at the same time that Tengku [prince] Abdul Rahman, no kin, became the federation's Prime Minister); in his sleep; in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya...