THE month of February cradled many landmark events that went largely unnoticed. The most important was the 115th anniversary of the birth, on Feb 8, of the father of our nation, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj.
It was also on Feb 8, 1956, that Tunku and the then British Secretary of State for the Colonies, Alan Lennox-Boyd, signed the agreement that would ultimately secure Malaya’s freedom from the British.
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