CalendarZ

  1. Home
  2. On This Day
  3. August
  4. 31
  5. Crown Colony of North Borneo

Events on August 31 in history

Crown Colony of North Borneo
1963Aug, 31

Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah) achieves self governance.

The Crown Colony of North Borneo was a British Crown colony on the island of Borneo established in 1946 shortly after the dissolution of the British Military Administration. The Crown Colony of Labuan joined the new Crown Colony during its formation. It was succeeded as the state of Sabah through the formation of the Federation of Malaysia on 16 September 1963.

References

Choose Another Date

Events on 1963

  • 8Jan

    Mona Lisa

    Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
  • 8Feb

    John F. Kennedy

    Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
  • 21Apr

    Bahá'í Faith

    The first election of the Universal House of Justice is held, marking its establishment as the supreme governing institution of the Bahá'í Faith.
  • 7Oct

    Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

    John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
  • 22Nov

    Assassination of John F. Kennedy

    U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald